Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-06

him 81. cents pound the IS sold
In Kansas City market brought him
Ia cents. from which he had 10
d.duct sl.4.0, for commission,
shrinkage and freight. the shrinsage
being from al to ,0S pounds pet
steer So that the net return was
about : n cents. However, Or. Rob-
.rtson fed hay that he could not have
sold on the market az profit aud
made other indirect gains that in his
case made the experiment one worth
while as II would be on every farm
that raises feed stuff that it can not
sell at profit.
New VIZ, xicOs Street Anchor.
Diversified Farming," is the sal
walton Of the New Mexico dry farmer
ana also will prove the ultimate goal
of the Irrigation farmers according
to II. NJ. lIainer. agricultural demon-
"Do not put MI OF your eggs in one
basket" was his advice. The Santa
Fe railway gets the hest returns and
finds the most prosperous farmers not
In the farming regions solely devoted
To cation. or 10 alfalfa. or To sugar
heets. OF To wheat, or TO orchards.
but in those districts that practice
diversified farming. ~ am thankful
thnt New Mexico is not cotton dis
trici" he exclaimed. I'm the cotton
districts we see few good roads. few
good schools houses. few prosperous
churches, the children are not SO wen
educated for they must stay home
from school to help in the cotton
fields
you will find the same thing II
you plant sugar beets for beet sugar
mills. exclaimed 4 farmer in one OF
the rear seats.
1t takes Is months q year to raise
cotton continued Mr. Banner. lie
warned against the tendency in north
eastern New Mexico To make it an
exclusive wheat country. lie told Of
the kind of wheat growing exempl-
tied by 4 large land company in that
section. and predicted its absolute
failure. rAs sure as they stay in
wheat they will eventually so broke
on wheat was his prophcsy The
experience with alfalfa has been sim
liar in the Pecos valley and things
have gone from bad TO worse, he
declared. The railroad would rather
see the farmers feed the alfalfa 10
livestock than carry tho alfalfa 20
other districts and collect the freight.
1t pays better In the long run. both
the railroad ana the fnrmer, to have
the alfalfa led 10 cattle, PIGS and
sheep He was even pessimistic as
to cantaloupes as an exclusive farm
product aud insisted in diversified
ton. He saw nc hope for the dry
farmer unless he supplemented his
crops with the COW, the hog and the
hen. He would also have the dry
farmer diversity his crops. In his
travels he found that the one-crop
farmer everywhere in New Mexico
wants TO sell out, Is dissatisfied. one
reason, he said is that the one-crop
farmer does not work as hard as the
farmer who knows he must raise
feed for his COW, his pig and his
chickens.
What can not the dairy cow do
for the Mesilla Valley" in ten
Years she would make this and the
other New Mexico irrigation districts
the most prosperous and finest farm
ing districts in the United states.
The silo pays and pays big. Sugar
beets, when raised for feed, pay; so
does mangclwurtzel, as we'll AS win
ter pasture of rye, barley or oats
Soudan grass in summer prevents
bloat and poisoning. sweet clover
will grow where alfalfa can not and
together with sugar beets consume
a lot of alkah, 50 that even If you
do not get a beet sugar mill, the
beet will be profitable. Raise your
calves on the range and finish them
in the valley, was his parting advice
In the discussion il was brought
out, that in the past year 2s cars OF
dairy cattle and two ears OF brood
sows had been brought into the Me-
silla valley
Farming an Expensive Occupation.
It was County Agent J. w. knorf
that made the assertion that farming
Ia the most expensive occupation OF
all. The farmer does harder WORK,
wastes more and makes less in re-
turn for the energy expended than
any other worker. He showed how
the pecos valley farmers are selling
alfalfa for less than II costs to raise
it. lie finds that the yield per acre
is nearer half Il ton than the ton per
acre one reads about He would have
the farms revert TO the standard Of
the earlier days when each farm was
sustaining, instead Of doing as Is
too often done today-selllng every
thing at wholesale and buying II back
at retail with the outsider fixing the
price IN either instance. Four years
ago. he said, Artesia shipped four
cars Of hogs. last year il shipped 40
cars of hogs and two carloads OF
turkeys, while In the Hope district,
where last year 1900 lambs were fed,
this year $1,000 are being fed for
market. II was in the Hope district
that the farmer replied to the ques-
ton: How do you make your ORCH
ard pay?' By saying: Il make my
orchard pay by feeding my alfalfa
hay to lambs II Is the lamb feed
ers who find that they can buy alfal-
fl cheaper than they can raise it In
the Pecos valley. lie told of dairy
man In the Pecos valley who made
500 month on ten dairy cows and
Vet bought his alfalfa. He found
that the farmers were actually losing
sl.0o a ton on every ton they sold
Just in the cost Of hauling.
The Profitable Hen.
i. l.. johnson. assistant agricul-
tural demonstrators OF the Santa Fe
railroad, told how to make the hen
pay. He cited the example OF Peta-
luna, which has 100000 of hen
money in its banks as an example OF
the success of specialized poultry
farming. He did not advise iiew
Mexico farmers TO specialize in poul-
try, but said that every farm could
make 800 to 500 chickens pay by
treating the hens right and killing
the roosters each first OF May.
County Agents and Their Work.
The scope and profit OF the work