"I remember when this Easterner came out
here to live and they told him that the loco weed
was good for feed. So he fed his horses some of
that weed and it drove them crazy. It's like dope,
it will make them crazy until they die."

On some of the 140 acres he owns now he grows
wheat and maize, as well as a bountiful garden
area that includes corn and beans. His main crop
is a special feed which he uses to feed cattle
which he buys every year to sell and eat.

But cows are not the only animals on the
Turner farm.

Though prairie dogs eat plant roots and are a
farm pest, Turner lets the animals make a home
near his fields.

"I have my own prairie dog town," Turner
said, pointing to a field where the prairie dogs
have dug their burrows. "I don't know how many
I have because I think my grandson Alan goes
out and tries to shoot them sometimes."

Not all of Turner's stories are about farming
and ranching in New Mexico. During WWI he
made it all the way to San Antonio, Texas.

For eight and a half months he was in
training to be a machine gun operator, but
Germany surrendered.

"I was a machine gun operator, you know the
cream of the crop, and while we were training in
Texas, the war had ended."

His brother who served three years before him
was also a machine gun operator, but he saw
quite a bit more action.

"My brother was always getting in trouble
because he was always shooting the enemy when
he wasn't suppose to. But he never got hurt
though," said Turner

Though once, said Turner, his brother** and two
other men came back from a battle alone.