Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-19
CONF ANY FORMED
To IMPORT HIGH
GRADE LIVESTOCK

East Las Vegas, ~ NJ. Nov IS
The San Miguel County Livestock I'm
provement company, which has as its
object the importation of purebred and
high grade dairly cows and sres, has
been formed here by six business men,
and has revolving fund of $4,000
with which to make necessary pur-
chases and loans to the farmers The
company's desire to not to make a
profit but to be of assistance in build
ing up the dairy industry II was
formed at the suggestion of the farm
bureau. TWO carloads of cattle al
ready have been imported and Coun-
ty Agent NJ. r. Gonzalez and one OF
the county's leading farmers have
gone to Arizona to purchase two addi-
tional carloads of high grade ami
mails
A similar corporation which has
done much good for the farmers is the
Emergency Seed corporation, which
was formed several years ago to ena-
BILE the farmers to purchase seeds at
cost and on easy terms. Its operations
have resulted in larger acreageS and
bigger yields of wheat and oats.
The Farmers Exchange, an organi-
cation fostered by the farm bureau,
has been instrumental in bringing
about teamwork among the farmers
Cooperation in seed selection stand
ardization of cropf for marketing;
cleaning, sacking and shipping, are
among the functions of the exchange
Cooperative storage and cooperative
purchasing also are done to the mu-
tual advantage of all the members.
The exchange has warehouses at three
points in San Miguel and Mora coun-
ties,
When County Agent Gonzalez took
charge of the work in San Miguel and
Mora counties five Years ago this
month, lie found Ciaditlons poor.
Ninety-five per cent OF the grain was
affected by smut there were twenty
five varieties of corn, none of which
had a name; there were fifteen varie-
ties of wheat equally nameless; as
many as seventeen kinds of beans Of
ten were found in the yield from one
field. In five years, under guidance
from the State college and the ma
tional department of agriculture,
through the county agent. the farmers
have reduced the smut evil to 90 per
cent. or about one field in five, by
proper treatment of the seed BY
Standardization through seed selec-
ton they have perfected four varie-
ties of corn that yield abundantly in
this section, the one best known being
San Miguel county White Dent, an
evolution from one of the varieties
found here, This corn has become so
well known that it is In demand for
seed, in 1917 over 10000 ponnds being
sold for this purpose. Varieties of
corn have been segregated that will
grow at an altitude of 5000 feet or as
low as 1000 feet.
Elimination of wild oats and i'm
portation of seed have increased the
wheat and oats yield immensely, so
that this section now is producing
more wheat than it consumes in flour,
and its oats are in constant demand
in other counties. Beans have been
reduced by seed selection to one fore
most variety. the New Mexico pinto,
now we'll known all over the land.
This bean first was named and first
put foremost in San Miguel county
This bean took the first prize, as a
San Miguel county product, at the two
last state fairs In Albuquerque
Last winter the county agents Of
flee was instrumental in saving 1000
head of livestock and 81, 900 head of
sheep by means of importing feeds to
the amount of $4,000. Cooperative
buying and the procuring of the half
rate granted through county agents
by the railroad administration, saved
the stockmen $16,176 The work is
endorsed by business men and t he
county commissioners have made a
levy to SupDort IT,