Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-08


The American farmer is the most eff |
ficient producer. was his observation, |
but he has not yet developed into an |
efficient business man and it may
take another generation or two TO do
that. He advocated farm organiza- |
ton and said the reason that SO many |
farmers do not stay hitched in rural
organizations is that they do not have
their own farm and farm work or
sani2ed. Bookkeeping is as essential
on the farm, under modern conditions
as it is in the bank or gfocery store.
Cart Before the Horse.
, To insist that creamery. beet SUI
gar factory, packing house, are
needed before the farmer can profit
ably engage in dairying, sugar beet
growing and fattening Of hogs, he
said. is putting the cart before the
horse. When any section begins TO
grow enough of these 10 make the es-
adjustment of crcameries, sugar fac
tories and packing houses profitable,
these will come. They often come
even before that point is reached. He
told of creamery in the Peeos valley,
yet, the majority of the Pecos val
ley farmers continue to send their
cream to Wichita, Kan. Similarly in
Quay county. most of the milk and
cream is shipped to Kansas City in
stead of to the local creamery. The
founder of q packing plant at Max
well City, Colfax county, sold out be-
cause he discovered it was cheaper
to ship the fat beeves to Denver ana
to ship back the beef than 1t was TO
run a small packing plant. Mr.. Trum-
bull declared that public opinion for
time gets steered off on q tangent.
1t was carried away for time by
the back to the land movement, and
the slogan of intensified farming. lie
insisted that under ordinary circum-
stances it pays better to raise 100
bushels of wheat on four acres than
10 grow it ON only one acre, at least,
as long as land is as plentiful as 1t Is
in the west. It is the law of diminish
ing returns. He spoke of the Indian
who. after forty years of refined city
life. returned 10 his tepee, remarkinS:
Civilization isn't worth the trouble
Forty Acres and II Living.
County Agent p. ID. Southworth of
Deming intinated that the slogan,
Forty Acres and Il Living" has been
discredited BY experience He ADDED
that the tariff bugaboo has been ex-
ploded by the high prices for wool ana
sheep that now prevail and the Ar
gentine beef bugaboo by the phe-
nomenal quotations for cattle. To his
query. whether it pays the farmer to
buy dairy cattle and steers for feed
ing at present high prices, Captain
Franklin of Eel Paso answered decid-
edly in the affirmative as far as oairy
cattle are concerned and n big cattle
grower, as far as steers for feeding
are concerned.
Superior Quality Pays.
At the rate of 200 words q minute
for an hour, w. H. Olin convinced
his hearers that it pays to mix brains
and sweat with his farm work. "Ihe
first thing the new settler shopld do
is to write or go to the agricultural
colleee in his state to learn what
crops are best adapted to his lands
and markets. He sang the praises OF
Standardization, Of publicity for prod
ucts of merit, and proved once more
that the world will beat path to the
doors of the man who produces what
it wants Standardization is profita-
Bile and beneficial because it gives a
greater quantity Of one kind. it brings
a uniform product to market ana
makes both quantity and quality pos
sible.
He traversed the world from the
Isles of Jersey and Guernsey to Bran
don in northwestern Canada to prove
that Standardization pays he clted
the agricultural schools and colleges
from Canada to Illinois, to prove that
for every $4,000 put into them
the farmers have made million dol
lars profit extra. He told of the sue
cessful Introduction into high altitude
r. gions, such as the San Luis valley,
of the COW pea for feeding, attribu-
ting to A. C. Cooley, director OF the
extension work in New Mexico, the
credit, and declaring that PROF Fa-
bian Garcia has done more Tor the
state Of New Mexico in teaching u TO
plant the right variety of apples IMAM
all its politicians taken together. In
relating the experience of an ONO
millionaire, he incidentally taught the
value of publicity. The millionaire
established dairy farm. nc pro-
cured the highest grade Jerseys ne
could get from the channel ISLANDS
until he developed a COW that yielded
81 900 and more year in return Tor
an expenditure of $500, including sta
Bile rent and overhead expenses. Then
he inserted small advertisement IN
n newspaper offering for sale calves
from his farm. The same morning
he was overwhelmed with kilograms
telephone calls and letters win or
ders. with pleas to let the sender nave
one or more of the calves. lie toid
of a New Jersey man who traVeleu
Q 900 miles to find the right klao OF
alfalfa and finally found it ut the
North Dakota agricultural college, but
could not buy seed Of il for tnree
years. He told of wheat for Which
eav,.,are IN Co1orado vainlV offered q