Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-09

valleys is going from bad to worse
II believe in New Mexico, | believe in
the Mesilla valley; We are going to
make both the best country on God $
footstool and the dairy COW viii help
us he exclaimed. However, the
man who does not want to work. who
does not believe in diversified crops,
has no place in the dairy business.
We must meet conditions as they exist
and the agricultural college and eX-
pertinent station are here to study
these conditions with you and help
You make the best of them"
Respect the Cows Tastes.
individuality in feeding was tn
lesson brought home by Il. r. Ed
rcdge, OF salt Lake City, for thirty
years one Of the most successful
dairymen in business in the United
States. OF late he has been IN charge
of dairy INVESTIGATIONS for the United
States department at Logan, Utah. As
"A speaker he is hummer. In fact
every speaker at the congress thus
far, has had the knaek Of holding the
closest attention of his hearers In
todays audience were not only farm
crs, stockmen, but clergymen, news
paper men, students. teachers and
even a district judge, each the posses
scr, perhaps, of COW or two, and TAX
ing notes that will prove Of value in
an emergency or in general. Mr.. Ell
dredge told how a COW was fed for a
worlds record, citing ."Skylark Orms-
bee who yielded 10000 pounds of
milk and POS pounds of butter fat
equal to 500 pounds of butter in one
year. He declared that every COW
has her likes and dislkes. The sue
ccssful feeder caters to her likes.
There is no ono feed in America as
good for a COW as alfalfa but it must
be supplemented with other feeds.
Good corn silagc, grains, bran, nlan-
gclwurtzel were mentioned amons
others. Do not be stingy with the
cows feed when she goes dry. That
is the time to be good to her and to
prepare her for her work It is
cheaper to feed variety ana better re-
suits are obtained This applies both
to the commercial dairy and the fam
lily COW. Get the feed in which the
owner has put his heart ana mixed
his brains, and you will make profit
from your dairy he exclaimed, as he
called upon his auditors TO fire their
questions at him, which they proceed
ed to do as If with machine guns and
hol ~ p4nlfag
During the noon hour the Mesilla
valley dairy farmers present went
over articles Of incorporation for The
Rio Grande Co-operatiye Dairy asso-
citation which are to be adopted to-
morrow at "A mass meeting of dairy
men at Chambcrino.
Home Economics Work.
Equally as interesting as the meet
ings of the men are those of the wom-
en- Home Economies Extension
Work was ably discussed by Miss
Gail Richie. who has just succeeded
Miss Ross as extension worker and
appears to be human dynamo when
it comes to leadership in community
farm work among women. How we
get into the homes Of Utah was ex-
planned by Miss Gertrude McCheyne,
who also gave a demonstration Of
"The service table and its uses as a
labor saver. Miss Florence T. Ward
II washington, y. C., in charge of the
club work in the western states, con-
cluded the afternoons session with a
talk on Training our Girls Through
Club Projects. In the evening she
made a splendid illustrated address to
mass meeting at IIadley hall on
BOYS and Girls Club Work in the
United states 1t should prove an
eye opener TO New Mexico for the
speaker demonstrated where much
wasted energy that now goes into mis-
chief can be harnessed to create bet
ter rural conditions.
il Around Education.
The visitors today went through tho
s21, 900 engineering building with its
$45. 600 equipment of the college.
Without doubt it is the best engineer
ing school both civil and mechanical
as well as electrical, in the southwest.
There is an erroneous idea that the
College OF Agriculture exists only to
make farmers out Of farmers boys.
II not only trains the sons and daugh-
tiers of farmers. but also of city folks,
and not only to till the soil, but 70