Deming graphic., 1919-12-30
GROWING IS
|AG|TAT|NG FARMERS
aek Of Organization may Operate TO
Cut Down Planted Acreage This
Year, But Some Will Plant.
STATE COLLEGE APPROVES CROP
Tests Made at Institution and Here
Demonstrate That Cotton Will do
Well I'm This Section Of State.

a Mimbres Valley farmers want to
|i'aise cotton, are assured that 1t VIII
/ grow well, but the uncertainty as TO
thinning Is giving the cotton boom quite
f <a set back. Two ideas are prevalent
. One Is that each farmer should put In
@ just few acres as tryout and the
n others want larger acreage and the as
. surance OF a gin located here 10 take
q care of the crop. There seems to be no
"A doubt that the cotton will do well In
a this country. Ii has been tried out In
"A the Misilla valley by farmers and at
n the college with the result that exten- |
81 slve acreage Is being planted this sea-
n son and rise In the value Of land be-
- cause OF the influx OF cotton farmers
a has been definitely noted.
Good cotton was grown at the col
lege last year and 1000 acres are be-
"A Ing planted below I'll Paso TO the crop
u one farm alone having 725 acres ready
4 to plant. Last year this land went
q from one TO two bales Of cotton per
IA acre, probably averaging not less than
Il bale to the acre. This was on the
+ Ivy Dale farm. Mr. NJ. Ivy has in
d formed those interested here that he
would put In gin IL as little as 400
II were put In cotton. l. X. Hollinger
A who grew cotton successfully at Myn-
81 dus last lear took a sample to Mr.. Ivy
"A who pronounced IL first-clas1. Mr..
"A lIollinger Is very enthusiastic over the
. crop and says that he will put In about
60 acres this year ON his own place
and probably as much for Mr.. p. w.
. Turner.
Others who have expressed a desire
n to put In acreage ranging from 10 TO
so are: Clarence Hon. Lewis Smyer,
| Joe Morris, G. G. Hollenback, Joe
stump, John LOTUS, Gordon Slncomb,
II. I. Sipe, Lindauer, Hestend. Hass-
man. Dlckerson and others.
Following is the bulletin issued by
n the State College relative to cotton
production In southern New Mexico:
Cotton Growing under Irrigation
"a The above heading is the subject OF
E Press Bulletin No. 331, issued at the
State College, January 20, 1919. 1t
Al gives the experience of growing cotton
NJ at the State College for the three
"a years, 1916, 1917, and 1913. We are
glad to give this at this time because
Of the widespread interest In growing
81 Of this crop In Luna county.
As soon as the 1919 summary OF
N growing this crop at the State College
Is made up we shall have printed In
these columns.
Press Bulletin No. 3S1
Cotton has been successfully grown
IN this State for n number of years
e. hut the area Of production has been
III largely confined TO the Carlsbad dis.
trict In the pecOs Valley.
III The increased demand and the re
sultant high prices paid for this
product has greatly stimulated Interest
n in cotton production until now many
M Of the irrigated districts in the State
. are Interested In this crop.
The New Mexico Experiment sta
III ton has been conducting cotton investi
i. gations for several years and the re
suits have been uniformly favorable to
i the crop. In 1916 a number OF varie
ties were compared. The Durango
variety yielded 1.l0 bales of lint cotton
10 the acre and several other vartie'
81 exceeded baie to the acre. In 1911
81 the Durango variety was planted OF
NJ the Mesa land which Is some 30 fee
higher than the valley. The soil Il
quite sandy with pockets of grave
scattered here and there. which makes
IL quite porous The cotton was no
M planted until quite late and as re
suit a large number OF bolls did no
have time to mature before frost. an,
so the yield was cut down, the croI
yielding OS2 bales per acre as agains
81 LAG bales the previous year on vale!
IA land. In the spring of 1918 a NOR
extensive experiment to include b0tl
mesa and valley soils was planned. II
view of the fact that cotton cross fer
tilizes quite badly producing an infer
ior grade of lint and as the results o
previous experiments had been favor
able TO Durango cotton Il was decide
TO confine the experiment to this on
variety.
The field of valley land that wa
selected for the experiment had pre-
vlously been In hog and dairy cow pas
ture, being seeded each year to an al
nual pasture crop. The soil althoug
somewhat uniform Is probably no nor
81 SO than the average field in this sei
ton of the State and Is classified a
Gila Clay by the Bureau of Soils.
Different types Of fertilizers and di
ferent methods OF planting We're con
pared but in view OF the fact that III
results along these lines cover but Oh
years work Il is deemed inadvisab
to recommend the use Of one fertiliz'
over the other. But from the O.
perience OF the past three years an
through information secured from co
ton growing sections It Is evident th,
better stands are secured when q
cotton Is planted on a ridge and iri
gated IN burrows, thus. preventing
crust forming as Is the case wht
|# planting on the flat and flooding
practiced. The ridges do not need
be large, in fact, the small ridge J.