Rio Grande Farmer (Newspaper) - March 29, 1923, Las Cruces, New Mexico OFFICIAL PAPER NA ANA COUNTY T 2384 A CONSOLIDATION OF RIO GRANDE REPUBLIC AND FARMING An independent newspaper voted to the interests of the people of the Rio valley OVER READERS GRANDE 42 No 41 12 COLUMNS LAS CRUCES NEW MEXICO THURSDAY MARCH 29 1923 Sc A YEAR ORGANIZED FARMING VOL 4 6 re re Putting Business Into frry C Wallace Secretary of Agriculture Dona Ana County Farmers of Cooperation System and Program of Efficiency Secretary Wallace has in Presidents Harding a J editor of a successful farm paper mid a in the study of of spoke to an I lems ot Mial He the cc of and their and Las Cruces business men and women filled Graces to owing yesterday afternoon were outstanding most farmer in United States Three cheers for Secretary a shout from the rear this and of the seventh Farm Bureau J of the armory J The audience as one and lowing The Star Spangled j lusty cheering greeted Mr Wallace as 1 played by tbe Seventh and of Fort Bliss under the of Bandmaster Clark B Jjames S Quesenberry if Dona Ana County Farm turned meeting over to H ok of the Delta District said that the success of Bureau day was due lie splendid cooperation of Las Chamber of Commerce which the fanners to have their in Las B treasurer of the Chamber the address of the absence of Gorge M president of the organization on fined to his bed by sickness fo with mingled feelings of and regret that I come be- Mr Stevens said it is a to represent organization as ter cf it is a f of keenest regret to all of our president Mr Clarke through sickness from r his message to you in person WHS tne leader Farm Bureau several years vo years ago he was actively id with the work of Commerce and he brought with him tbe fine i cooperation which he assisted in developing in your close cooperation within Tiber of i Slid the preau and their close each other and with the Butte Irrigation District iii to siaks auch in advertising the throughput the length of the country More im- is the fact that we have In the valley to home folks and produced tbe I courage and optimism which f whole community to owing you to Las on the organization which I is like welcoming my beat pleasure I could possibly H L Kent of the New fe of Agriculture and Arts who welcomed the guests and farmers on the Farm Bureau said in he stepped to the center cf tho s to deliver his address wos n erent pleasure to me to visit your agricultural college tn meet the able executive of fleer and the members of tbe faculty It was alao AH inspiration sons daughters enrolled in the student body I am taking the first opportunity to get out into the open country and to meet the men for whom our department is working for I am spending a month in the Southwest trying to get In touch with the ple of this district and to gam tf fuller understanding of the problems confronting them department has tives in all the country whose duty it is to report the you have to overcome as well as the progress you sre making My aim Is to get into closer touch with you Many of Servico Mr Wallace then described the three main fields of service carried on by hia department as Scientific research extension vice and regulatory service He said the department had a force of the largest group of this kind doing research work all over the world and some of the plants that had been discovered by some of the scientists in this group in other tries and transplanted hero were proving to be of the greatest food values Mr Wallace mentioned that liis department after acres of national forests acres of which are located in the i state of New Mexico timber as we are growing and under these circumstances lumber tion will soon bo one of four great national problems Last year 0000 was spent In forest protection and conservation Regarding the Extension Service Mr Wallace this to the farmers of the United knowledge gained the research tin a moving tures workers tne boys and gills clubs and the cultural colleges are employed to give this information to those who advantage Wallace The Packets and Stockyards he gives my department supervision over the stockyards sad packing industries Jis the greatest power ever conferred upon a government department in time of peace us to fix the price which the livestock dealers shall charge for their service a to growers nnd the consumers I The department maintains special agents in every important stockyard and it is their business to sec that the shipper gets a fair deal You aro urged to call on them in the event you encounter difficulty in selling your stock Our Inspectors also inspect all meat that passes into interstate commerce We arc trying to regulate a ber of trade abuses The live stock industry is one of the greatest in the United States This is not only continued on last page HENRY Secretary of Agriculture DEPARTMENT OF SERVICE Tbe wholo of the De- of Agriculture ii to DO to ino and of the United Gun ii m of Partisan politici no part In it there connected with it I have the pointment of only two of them The rest aro under Civil Service We are putting Into oy coo pc J H wilu of thn under C WALLACE Lobdell Explains New Agricultural Credit Act BLAKE WINS MINING CASE The district court has been pied for the last daya In the trial of the case of BlaVe vs Cavena This is a suit In which tho plaintiff endeavored to recover possession a mining claim county which the defendants had preempted in 1914 alleging that tho plaintiff had failed to do his assessment work as required by law Tho case was first tried In 1916 in Valencia county verdict being found for the defendants It was then tried again on n change of in 1917 in Dona Ana county the plaintiff getting Defendants appealed to the court the case back for a new trial and it came up at this term of court Tho jury last night found for the plaintiff on all counts SOME KNOCKERS AT ALAMO Evidently some of tho residents of have little use for judging by a road map and log given out by the Miller Buick Company of that city The lolder contains a map of the state on which are shown Alamogordo Albuquerque El Paso Deming and other towns but Las Cruces is omitted In another part Thirty Thousand Dollars Saved Producing Farmers on 1923 Water Tax Assessments DIRECTOR DAVIS OF U S RE- CREDIT ON CONSTRUCTION FOR 1921 STORAGE PRESIDENT BROOK WHO PRE- PARED ARGUMENT SES CASE Farmers of the Butte Ir- i ignition District who paid storage charges in 1921 will be saved about on construction charges for the year by a decision of A P Davis director of the U S tion in answer to an ment by the Irrigation District This benefit will accrue only to those farmers who actually cultivated their land and paid the storage charge of 50 cents an acre for the year 1921 In other words this will benefit tho resident producer Mr de- was announced Monday by O M of the Rio Grande project H H nf thf dis- who prepared the argument said to a This credit comes about through thn postponement of construction Inrfrec from to 1022 During this postponement the Public Notice remained in technical effect only the collection of charges i Under the Inw tbe charge of 60 cents an acre be collected from land under Public No- tice Tho collections for water had not at that time teen transferred to tbe Elephant Butte Irrigation Dis- nnd the Reclamation Service upon the of its to colloct storage charges for 1021 The District raised the issue at thai time but was advised by the ector that in view of the ment of collection of Construction charges the storage would havo to be paid We again raised the Issue by letter March 20 1923 proposing that the storage charges collected for 1021 be deducted from tlie construction assessments mode on the tax roll for 1923 The decision of the director means that this position has been accepted All the farmers who paid tbe now in the area for tion will have the amount of storage payments deducted from the 51.80 fir aero construction charge levied on the tax roll for 1023 is construction assessment fjor there farmers for 1023 will be on tbe tax roll Instead of Tn the oven Notice no HRO wore collected for ml none will bs collected in the ture so that decision really a gain of an acre to the farmer for 1923 Tho charges paid in the acted ft a a credit the gross project cost That is the project cost has annually been re- hy the amount of storage charges paid The individual did not personally receive any credit for tho GO cents nn acre paid There is A vast difference to our farmers between 50 cents nn acre credited individually a reduction of the gross project cost by some fn the present in stance the farmer gets an individual nnd al benefit the same as a part payment upon a mortgage In the other case where the amount is practically ped into the pot as it were the tn Mm nt nil The giving of those credits to the individual personally will entail n large amount of extra bookkeeping upon the accounting department of the Irrigation District hut are very indeed to do tins Cor tho benefit of our farmers Farm Loan Commissioner Shows How Loans Nay Be Rediscounted by National and State Banks Trust Companies and Other Ample Funds Arc Available to Support Plan of the following bound for California are advised that there ate two routes from Alamogordo One goes across the Organ mountains HI Park 78 miles Locko de- scribes this us the worst road in New Mexico traveled one tion one chance for water and real source ul danger and in any car trouble other route Paso ana miles of good road 30 miles of fair soon to be SO miles c-f hard surface pavement habitations gus oil water und help oil along the way heavy traffic along this route via mountains 6 houra 30 minutes via Kl Paso 0 hours It would pay to go El Pasu route even hat out stopping Ask any hotul or ngu for confirmation of Comment on the above or tho spirit it would ie superfluous INTERESTING PAPERS AT FARM BUREAU MEETING The business session was called to order at o'clock yesterday morning by S president of the Farm Bureau who afterward turned over the to r I of Anthony a member of the executive The program for next year's work was outlined by J W of Dona Ana who was followed by Francis E Lester past president of the stato Bureau Federation Mr Lester tolH tho Farm reau had accomplished in the lost nix years K J of Mesa secretary of the Bureau and Robert C for Dunn Ann county spoke of the of the local of the Farm Bureau Senator J E Reinburg of Un- ion discussed at length the proposed treaty with Colorado for the division of tbp rif Hio Hi was followed by W P Thorpe of Dona Ann whose vraa ral Credits Tho meeting was attended by farmers 1 roni various ot county The Inck of space prevents cation at this time of the remarks of the various speakers Those will be printed in the next Issue of Tho Farmer Hinkle Honored by Business Men at Community House Banquet past the farmer to himself and needed no from the outside in the f his farmers of the country are and they are appealing to and nation for aid in and regelation It ire Q very great pleasure to o extend to you tha hearty of the best and of in Southwest If not in Cowboy r a or ok then introduced Jim cowboy who other county has by far the in tr as I know the most be found the Your Temple vof You are most one of the few irrigation actually furnishes rater to supply the needs ol gn You have more in any other district In the This coupled with climate And fertile soil every advantage for agri development Your certainly is potting the Butte district and New in the nap ducing Secretary Wallace Business and professional men of Laa entertained at a banquet in Community House last night in Gov James F Hinkle who day here at the celebration f Farm Bureau Day Judge R L oung was toastmaster Rev H J invoked the blessing Mrs Bertha M Paxton first legislator in New Mexico spoke of the interest the governor showed facing Ana Mark B Thompson re- some of his experiences with Mr Hinkle before the latter became and extended him a hearty welcome Rep N C Frenger told of the of tho present and of the part the governor had taken in it by his own leadership Introducing the governor Mr Young said he believes that taxation is tho most pressing problem facing the of New Mexico Governor this is the first town in the state he entered when he came to make his home in New Mexico Tho Fountain orchestra played during tho banquet which was served by ladies of the Baptist church C T Scale and Riley W Carl ton supervised the serving of the dinner They were assisted by V C Collier B B J B U C Lockett Zastrow James S Quesenberry R W gan Bert Borsberry Tucker and Talbot and young ladies of tbe W A donated by Mrs C E Locke were served with the dessert In addition to the of honor PLANT COTTON EARLY W H Lee and Stall ating the Blueher at 347 acres a mite couth of town pUnted 20 of cotton latt Monday The real ol the acreage at the farm will be ed In April It believed that this the planting m tbU part of the Southwell The usual from April 20 to May 10 Knights Templar Arrange Easter Services Cruces Commandery No 11 Rights Templar will celebrate Easier at St Paul's Methodist church evening nt 8 o'clock The order of service I UK speakers there were C f Knight James S berry C 0 Bennett F A w J Stevens non P F Campbell G J this number the Sir Knights George W Frenger Prof C F roe W A Sutherland John M man C T Scale Fred S Hess W I Mayor A I Kelso Dr R nc people ui i m Hinkle he said had grappled wilh E McBride L E Freudenthal Prof this problem a county Fabian Garcia Dr C W Gerber J H Paxton Al Stevens B Prank Weisenhorn Will P J D Isaacks Henry Stoes W V Thorpe M C O'Hara Dr 0 H Brown H C Stewart Prof George berry Harry T J W Lowe Edwin L Holt M O Llewellyn R C Storkdale W L Dean A M Beers of El Paso and S A Wilder of St Paul Minn A large public reception giving IAS Cruces people an opportunity to meet Governor Hinkle followed the Miss Tillie Fountain and her the Spanish songs arid dances as a member of the territorial board of equalization and as ernor Governor Hinkle was greeted by hearty applause as he arose to speak I have been connected with many New Mexico he said but this last one which I have had the test with anything to do For the first time in my experience there were no bosses who had thing to Bossism is now a Twelve Banking Houses to Be in Federal Land Bank Cities will enter the church and be seated sir S Doan the Cross of Christ I 143 The Christian's Creed Standing Women nt the Tomb Warner Mrs I A Broaddus Responsive Reading and Gloria Standing General Confessions and Kneeling Announcements Offertory and Anthem Choir Christ Our Passover Schilling Analysis of Rural Credit Legislation made for The Rio Grande Farmer Twelve banks are to be organized in the United States in the same cities ns the Federal the cers and directors of which shall bc officers and directors ol Intermediate Banks Tho powers 1 Usual corporate powers 2 Jurisdiction in State Courts 3 Act as fiscal for Un- States government 4 To discount for or purchase national banks etc notes nn other obligations the proceeds of which have for purposes 6 To buy or sell with or without recourse debentures issued hy any other Intermediate Credit Bank 6 To make loans or advances di- rect to cooperative associations where secured by warehouse receipts or mortgages on live stock 7 To borrow money and to and to sell trust debentures with a maturity of fiot more than five years which shall be secured by at least a like face amount of cash or notes or other such obligation The limitations I Loans or advances to tive associations nhall not exceed 76 per cent of the market value of products or livestock etc shall be thing of the past I hope By taking a stand for economy in public affairs the legislature started state-wide movement in this direction which U making m fait in part of the wealth Lack of moisture which has said the Farm Bureau had i hurt the business during the reduced the taxable wealth Uie and has made economy even more sary this spring has been and the ranges should r for yean to have a president's cabinet present I are particularly for- he added We have tot agriculture with os The be in excellent condition this year pt of agriculture This nill mean prosperity for the jit of the kind cattlemen and an in the Id a headed by a real dirt amount of within the state man who was born and I The governor remarked that tils a farm and who knows tha hit first official taking from ground office and that be pleated to to DIRECTORS MEET Directors of Las Chamber of Commerce discussed routine ness at their regular meeting day evening C F Knight presided Present Fred S Hess W H Broaddus N C Frenger A I Kelso L E Freudenthal and B Frank The International vice company has added a third bus to its fleet Scripture Rev A J Gross exceed twice the paid in and Luke 6 Sir Henry J Reemtsma Excellent Prelate The AH Standing Christian 383 Prelate Doxology Organ Mm W J Stevens District court which has been In senlon the two weeks came to an end thli morning and the petti Jury was ten times the paid in and unimpaired capital and surplus of such corporation of not less than six n sold hy any Intermedia Bank with or without its ment 4 Rates of interest or discount charges shall bo subject to the ral of the Farm Loan Board On ma vote of the of the Farm Loan Board any Intermediate Credit bank hall be required to dis- count the discounted paper of any other Intermediate Credit hank at of interest to be fixed by the Loan No Federal In- Credit shall itself in excess of ton times its paid up and surplus Thi L 1 Ench Federal Intermediate Credit Bonk establish a rate of discount to be approved by the Board 2 The rato of discount not exceed by more than 1 per cent the rate borne by preceding Issue of debentures X A Federal Intermediate Credit hank shalf discount note other obligation which the borrower has been charged a rate of interest exceeding by more 1 H per cent the discount rate of the Federal Intermediate Credit bank 4 The Federal Intermediate Crc dit hank may subject to the the Farm Loan buy in the open market at or below par for It wn account and retire at or before maturity any such debentures Capital stock divided nti of each which by government of the United Sucb subscription Is subject to cnl hy the bunks upon 30 notice t the Secretary of the Treasury an with the approval of the Farm Board Expenses shall be equitably pro portioned among tho Federal Loa Banks Joint Stock Land Banks an Intermediate Credit Banks Net earnings shall be divided inU parts half thereof shall b paid to the United States the shall bo paid into a surplus fund unt it shall amount to 100 per cent of th a maturity subscribed capital stock 10 per cent shall be paid into and the remaining net earning Credit shall be paid to the United States a a franchise tax The liability on debentures Is the same ax the Joint and several liability on Fedora Farm Loan bonds For details on examination and ri lee Section 208 The Federal Farm Loan Board Fami Loan today gave out In behalf of the oral Farm Loan Board tho following statements in reference to tho Credit banks for in tho Agricultural Credit The conference with the presidents of the several Federal Loan banka lane week nnd auch analysis as wo have Able to inako of the agricultural credits act acair to justify the ing The new undertakes to vide only for Intermediate tural credits that la credits for a longer may ordinarily extended by banks nnd falling snort of the long term loan It ia essentially a departure and a now nnd must be with nnd cars and along lines o absolute safety Direct loans cannot bo to In- Direct advances may made to cooperative marketing or live stock association cured by receipts for plo or by chattel mortgage on livestock No loan may exceed 75 per cent of tho market value of tho agricultural product or live stock May bo mny bo for nnd state banks savings trust companies agricultural credit corporations and Incorporated stork loan companies under tions yet to bo prescribed Loans discounted for banking must bo mndo for purposes is to mecin to a person on gap oil agriculture nnd for tha purpose of on such Nn con bo pon which the borrower has been cd a rate more than one oK per cent in of tho ount rates of tho Intermediate L Bank of tho In making advanced on warehouse the banks can accept only from bonded government or bonded operating under ory state supervision and on This should lead to broader In- erest and creator activity in tho of warehouse facilities and luir proper regulation Tho facilities which tho banks will c able to afford tn cooperative cling concerns should load to development of such isea Ampli Ample funds will bo for to orderly marketing ut none to support speculative g of crops No loans until the system In tried out will bc for period than nine pon live stock paper satisfactory of renewal bo riven proper cases but only to an aggro- ate amount not exceeding tho al of the Intermediate Credit bank id always subject to rein spec nd satis factory condition of security Tho banks will bo Immediately and being fully officered an with reasonable promptness n the existence of service but in lew of the extension of the term f service of the War Finance Cor- orAtion and tho generally ory condition of credits through ex- iling agencies no considerable demand anticipated Agricultural credit under tho Capper Act have no relation to tho fatc Credit hanks and with them It win ho the ambition of those barged with the administration of new law to render maximum hut elemental business safety must he the first consideration and cs nnd cooperative tr the service und It developed will moke their beat con- hy offering nothing hut paper thus avoiding and IS AID Word comes from Washington D that the appointment of Cnl flenry A Ingalls of as Ian aide for Mexico to tho of War ban been confirmed by Jie Adjutant General of tho army flc will have charge of the tees organized In tho various com- of the slate to recruit young men for the citizens military ing ramps Three thousand men in are to trained this year Those desiring tn attend the camps are requested to write for tion blanks to the C M T C officer Eighth Corps Area Fort Sam ton Texas given authority to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with the law as It deems The tax exemption In the same af on farm foan bonds For details of penalty see Section 211
