Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-11
ORIGINAL GROUND
FERTILITY TO BE
RESTORED VALLEY
Home Coming for Absentee
Land Holders Planned
by Committees

Farmers, land holders, business men,
bankers and others interested IN dong
the greatest work toward building up
Imperial Valleys soil to point of fer
tiity it was when originally titled, Will
have an opportunity to learn from the
greatest soil experts in the state the
need of Imperial Valley, according to
IN announcement by Clark Adair, well
known raneher and chairman OF the
Associated Chambers of Commerce com
mittec planning n convention TO be
held here late in November.
The exact date of the conference has
not been determined but will be made
known within IL few days. Owing to
he fact that the Riverside Fair, the
CalcXico Pageant and other events are
taking the time of the county boosters,
the conference must be set after Arm
isticc Day, November II, which date
will end the Calcxico cotton pageant.
1t is also yet to be determined wheth-
or or not the convention will be in the
way of II travelling conference, where
il is to be held if held in one city only,
how many days it is to last and who
the speakers are to be.
f. L.. Garthwaite, farm advisor, is
assisting the committee in procuring
speakers for the day but as yet has
made no announcement of names of
prospective speakers.
1t has been proposed by some that
The conference be held in the various
centers of population in the county
and the the chambers of commerce en-
tertain the nonresident land holders
with an automobile tour showing them
what is being done where the farmers
practice plowing under lcgumcs to in
crease the nitrogen Of the soil. Under
this plan the land holders would at
tend the several proposed meetings
in various cities, visiting experimental
plots cnroutc.
Favors Sour Glover
"Thc farmers w1nder,' SAYS MI.
Adair. "why they do not get rs much
out Of the soil as they did when il
was first titled. Imperial Valley lands
are still very .ich but they must be
kept up by proper condition by turn
ing under lcgumes and by rotation OF
crops. We are going to show the non
resident land holders what can be done
and is being done on the best farms
aud induce them to put something back
into the soil.
"Pcople have bought land IN In
perial Valley and made good money at
first. Now they wonder why they
don t make as much as they did 1t S
simply because they need the clements
in the land that green crops turned
under will give.
IL" believe that sour clover has been
proven the best cover crop to turn
under. We shall visit farms using
various kinds of lcgume crops and see
the effects.
Ways in which the business men can
cooperate to get the farmers to inn
prove the condition of soil Are being
discussed by the committees in charge.
III = the greatest thing yet for the
valley said Il committeeman, I'VE
are going to make this an educational
campaign which will make history in
Imperial Valley. The conference will
be just a beginning. =
Signs are to be swung across the
principal streets of every city in the
valley telling the value of green ma
nure. Efforts will be made to estab-
lish the practice of legume planting
until Imperial Valleys lead as n pro-
ducing section need never be questioned.