The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-02-24
RAPID DEVELOP
MENT PREDICTED

GA number of forces are now at
work in Nevada agriculture which viii
cause rapid Development said S. 3.
/ Doten, in his address yesterday at the
morning session of the Farmers Week
series at the Commercial club, says the
Reno Journal.
"The breaking up of large ranches
into smaller farms, the development of
Irrigation projects, improved methods
of dry farming, the growth of dairy
ing, all are causing marked upward
progress in agriculture
'tWith the development of under
ground water supply, every bit of the
valley country in the state can be used
for farming and it will eventually be
utilized There are large tracts which
never have been reclaimed nor has an
attempt been made to do so.
North and south the state is rib
bed with large mountain ranges. On
every little stream of water that runs
out from a mountain canyon to lose it
self in the sagebrush below, we find a
ranch or two. These ranches are de-
pendent upon the mountain behind
them, not only for irrigation water.
Long after the. last bit of valley land
has been brought under cultivation,
there will still be thousands Of square
miles of mountain country fit only for
cattle and sheep ranges.
In the eastern states we hear it
said that the old cattle and sheep days
in the far west are at an end, because
the range has been broken up into
ranches. In Nevada the days of great
bands of cattle and sheep are still with
us and for long time to come will be
with us. Nevada is a natural sheep
country and the mountain range coun-
/ try can be used for nothing else Our
valley farms are dependent on the
range. A great many of them could
not and would not exist if it were not
for the range, for the only crops they
can send to the markets are crops that
will go out to market on the hoof. In
Nevada ranch and range are most i'm
timately connected and anything which
benefits the range is directly helpful
to the ranch country
J. M. Fulton gave a very interesting
/ talk on supplying the home market.
/ His remarks showed conclusivelv where
the garden truck farmer was overlook
ing a small fortune.
| After tracing the growth westward
of civilization, the speaker said:
@ The production of feed for animals
has been going on in this state for a
rumber of years. but the question of
food for the people has been neglected.
"There is shipped annually to Reno,
approximately 100 carloads of vegeta-
bles, running into the millions of
pounds Into Winnemucca, Tonopah,
snd Goldfeld, Elko and Ely, there is
shipped over 800 carloads. These vege-
tables include everything in the green
stuff line except potatoes and onions.
These with hundreds of carloads of
packinghouse products are shipped in
from the Missouri river points.
"The Nevada Packing company and
the Humphrey Supply company, both
of Reno, stand ready to pay cash for
every hog, or every dozen fresh eggs
that is shipped to their plants in Reno.
/ The merchants are in the market at all
times for fresh eggs, garden produce,
but there is little offered
''There is in the state valleys com
| tanning some of the richest land in the
world. All of these valleys should have
demonstration farm, as if our small
farmers are once shown the wonderful
profits they could make by this class
Of farming, you would Immediately add
value to the lands of this state and
add greatly to the population"