Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1918-08-30
COUNTY AGRICULTURAL NEWS
Department Edited BY A. c. isgman County Agricultural AGENT
for The Farmers and slookmen Of Luna County.


You are asked to undertake Oh.
other offensive-to 20 "over the
~ this fall for a great harvest Of
wheat in 1919. | need to give only
few figures and facts to impress
You with the increasing and urgent
need Of our people, our armies, the
allied peoples and their armies for
large supplies Of American wheat.
Our reserve supply or carry-over
from the 1917 crop is practically ex-
hausted and is the smallest on re-
cord. The need Of building our re-
serves Of wheat is evident. AlthO
this country produced a small crop
Of this grain in 1917 the total ex-
port Of wheat in excess Of imports,
including four interms of wheat
amounted to approximately 100000
600 bushels for the year ending June
3Oth, 1918. This is in comparison
with 7s,00O,OOO bushels exported in
1917, 230,0OOO,OOO bushels in 1916,
and 331 100000 bushels in 1915. #
was possible for the United States
To export wheat in large quantities
in 1915 and 1916 only because of
the large wheat crop of l9l2-l3-l4-
10, which gave this cohntry an ac-
cumulation of this stocks OF this
grain. Both the 1916 and 1917
crops were smaller than any crop
since 1917 and besides this there
was great demand for seed wheat
and an increased population TO be
fed.
Moreover, il must be borne in mind
than the carry-Over in al the ten i'm
porting countries in EurOre was
practically exhausted this year be-
fore the new harvest; that the nor
NAL requirements Of the exporting
countries are increasing instead of
diminishing; that some losses in
storage and transit may be expected
to continue; and that il is highly de-
sirable that a surplus should be ac-
cumulnted as insurance against par
tial failure next year.
You have been asked TO SOW
winter wheat this fall not less than
45,O00,000 acres--an increase Of Z
per cent offer last years sowing
and the department has suggested
that an even greater area, AZ 800, 900
acres, is desirable. The Increased
planting asked of each state has
been carefully determined with re-
gard to its local condition and its
reasonable capabilities. Your coun-
ty agent can tell you the quota as
signed to your state and you can APP
ply the responsibility to your ease.
You have occupied and yon oc-
cupy the first line trenches of the
food army. You have to fight diff
faculties too. am not unmindful
Of these. In the department of agri-
cultg6 we consider them daily, and
daily we give our best efforts to
help you meet them. You know of
the difficulties in your community,
hut know Of them in many commune
ties of many states, and so seriously
do they impress me that | might nj
most consider them insurmountable
had not American farmers last year,
and again this year, revealed the
rue American fighting spirit and the
ability to meet serious situations,
They will not LEI the war fail be-
cause Of deficient food production.
let us SOW literally for big
harvest in 1919. II has been called
The Liberty Wheat Harvest. We all
hope il will be. But let us under
take the task with the determination
that we will sweat our blood for
many more if need be before we