New Mexico extension news, Volume 29, Number 7

              mexico Extension News
STATE COLLEGE, JULY, 1949
4-H Encampment
Planned Aug. 8-12
The week of August 8-12 will
be a
t for r,
l 400
[New Mexico 4-H Club boys and
girls. That is the time when club
members  and their leaders  will
[assemble at the New Mexico State
College Campus for the 26th annual 4-H club camp.
I "Think," will again be the admonition which is to confront the
: youngsters, for the program in
which they are to participate is
designed to make them think of
themselves in relation to the
world in which they live. The
theme for the camp this year will
be. "Better Living for a Better
World."
The young people also will take
; tours to points of interest around
J the campus and Mesflla Valley.
The ■ annual candle-lighting ceremony will be held after a picnic
State contests are scheduled for
the club camp. These include a
clothing demonstration, dress re-
. vue, dairy foods demonstration,
livestock loss prevention demon-
r stration, livestock judging, dairy
production demonstration, tractor
maintenance demonstration, crops
judging, home economics judging,
•fruit and vegetable demonstration,
poultry demonstration, and drama
contests.   Contestants from prac-
: tically every county will vie for
mention on the award program.
State winning teams and individuals will present their demon-
' strations to the entire group on
the final day of the camp.
The visitors will stay in the
college dormitories and eat at the
r college cafeteria. The camp will
be open to receive club delegations at 1 p. m., August 8. Registration will be held in the basement of the Extension Building.
HAY CHOPPER AROUSES INTEREST
275 Attend
Pasture Tour
! Tovu Scheduled in Regina Area
| Methods of clearing sagebrush
and reseeding will be demonstrat-
| ed during an all day tour in the
Regina area (Sandoval and Rio
Arriba counties)  August 3.    The
I tour is being sponsored by the
Extension Service, Forest Service,
and Soil Conservation Service in
L cooperation with the Cuba, Lind-
" rith, Lower Cebolla, and Coyote-
r Canones   soil   conservation   dls-
Farmers and ranchers attending the third annual pasture
tour in Bernalillo County watch as employees of the Simms
Ranch, north of Albuquerque, demonstrate the use of a combination hay chopper and loader. Other demonstrations conducted
at the Simms Ranch included the procedure used in fertilizing
and how hay is cut and raked in one operation.
Delegates Discover
Great Confidence
In 1517 Program
To the individuals and delegates
attending the recent Spinners'-
Breeders' Conference, held at
Charlotte, North Carolina, one of
the outstanding facts gained from
the trip was the favorable comments regarding the 1517 Lint
Certification Program.
At miil after mill, 1517 cotton
was found with the 1517 tag attached. Guide after guide was
asked the question, "Does this tag
mean anything to the spinner?"
The answer was always the same
. . . "Yes, we wish every bale
bore such a tag."
When pressed for further comment, these men readily admitted
that they were finding these tags
a guide to quality, and in no case
was there an objection to placing
the tag in the bale or on the bale.
The mills found the tags to be
of such assistance that fiber tests
to determine variety have been
abandoned on bales carrying the
teg of the 1517 Lint Certification
Scientists Isolate
New Alfalfa Rot
At State College
Bacterial wilt has been considered the major disease of alfalfa
in New Mexico for some time,
but recent findings of Glen Staten,
associate agronomist, and P. J-
Lyendecker, plant pathologist, indicate that all the blame for diseased alfalfa should not be laid
to wilt.
The two research men, both of
whom are members of the New
Mexico A&M College Experiment
Station staff, have found another
alfalfa disease, a root and crown
rot. They have isolated the fungus,   • Fusarium    splani,     which
The genus Fusarium is a common inhabitant of agricultural
soils and causes damping off and
wilts of many of our common
field and vegetable crops. Some
of the diseases caused by Fusarium species in New Mexico are
cabbage yellows, chile wilt, and
Irish  potato  wilt.
Studies are now under way to
determine the amount of inherent resistance which common alfalfa varieties and New Mexico
Experiment Station selections may
Ml
than 275 New Mexico
hers and dairymen attended
: Bernalillo County pasture tour
y 1, when the Extension Serv-
of that county conducted its
Igated pastures.
e different pastures were
/ed during the one day tour,,
operators of the various
es made comments about the
jjement of their pasture pro-
The tour included the L. G.
Zartman farm and, the Swartzman Packing Company Ranch
south of Albuquerque; the Simms
Ranch, the Dietz Ranch, and the
Thatcher Ranch north of Albuquerque.
Zartman, who operates a dairy
farm, emphasized that one should!
never worry about having too-
much pasture. . . "You can always;
use it for hay," he said. Zartman.
prefers copped hay and keeps it
before his cows at all times to
avoid Moat.   "
J. C. Swartzman told the group-
that he fertilizes liberally, irrigates about every ten days, and
reduces the dangers of bloat by
keeping cottonseed hulls and*
molasses before the cattle at all
times. Swartzman grazes beef
cattle on his 400 acres of permanent pasture.
In the afternoon, at the Simms
Raneh, the group watched a dem-
methods used there and observed
a combination' hay 'chopper and
loader in action.
Three pastures, planted with
mixtures of meadow fescue, orchard grass, rye grass, ladino
clover, alsike clover, alta fescue,
brome gass, and birdsfoot trefoil
for sheep grazing were obserwed
at the Dietz Ranch. These pastures-
had been treated only with superphosphate, and as Dietz explained,
the clovers made a more lush and
rapid growth to the detriment of
George Thatcher's pasture plots,
smaller in comparison to the other
fields visited, contained a mixture-
of ladino and alsike clovers predominating over a stand of orchard grass. To keen down bloat'
and maintain milk production,
Thatcher keeps a non-legume hay
before his cattle at all times. He.
fertilizes with superphosphate
and finds that frequent irrigations-
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