The St. Johns herald., 1890-08-28

ing country. fair sample of dis trict that exports agricultural pro
 ducts to arid regions. The Kansa farmer, taking an average of a mum
 Der of years, gets, say, p cents pel
 bushel for his corn at Hutchison
 by the time it reaches Albuquerque
 by the addition of the cost of car
 riage, it's value has been raised tC 50 cents per bushel, and the mer
 chants there after paying commis'
 sions, and cost of handling it, can.
 not sell it proftably for less than I71 cents per bushel, which figure
 therefore, is the market price o1 corn at Albuquerque, and the price the farmer there, who delivers di- rect to the consumer, receives for his crop. The same process in creases the price of baled hay from $5.50 per ton, it's value in Kansas, to $15.50 in Albuquerque. These figures, which are verified by the fact that 75 cents per bushel for corn and $15.OO to $500 ton for hay have been the ruling prices for these commodities in Albuquerque during the past several months, shows a very good margin of profit for the farmer. The conditions that prevails there exist elsewhere over the Territory to a greater or less degree, being influenced chiefly by the fact of the particular loca- ton being nearer to, or further from, the Kansas point of ship ment than is Albuquerque.
 The fact that the deficit of farm productions is caused in New Mex leo and Arizona by a shortage of irrigable, and hence cultivatable land, of course precludes the pos sibility of any vast number of farm CTS taking advantage ofthe peculiar ly favorable conditions, but very careful study of the situation has led me to believe that these terri tories yet afford rich, irrigable land enough to accommodate 4000 farm CTS, and that the addition of this limited number to the producers of crops would not be nearly sufficient to effect an extinction of the pres ent deficit, much less cause a sur plus production with all it's atten- dant evils.
 Irrigation seems to be bug-bear to those who do not understand it's conditions and a source of congrat- ulation to those who do. This ar ticle has already extended beyond the limits I intended it should, and as I have a few more important points to touch upon, I cannot go into the interesting particulars of the art further than to state-That it makes farming as near certain ty as anything human can be cer- tain that it produces results on an average far above those usual in the humid region; that the con stant deposit of alluvial wash feeds the land, and lastly, that it is a simple, and, very inexpensive operation.
 These Territories also afford very exceptional opportunities, in parts, to produce those valuable crops of which there is deficit in the coun- try as a whole, and which we inn port largely from foreign countries. Indications seem to point to the fact that especially the raisin and prune output of these two Territo- ries will in the near future be very large, and of the very highest qual- ity. The intensely dry climate, cool nights, and absence of cloud, seem to be especially favorable to their perfect growth and drying. The occupation is very highly pro- fitable, in fact investigation has led me to believe that grape and prune culture in Southern New Mexico is the most remunerative branch of o0riouItura in the world certainly