Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-15

The Cunningham brothers, who ar
among the most successful farmers o
this section, have harvested about 3,OO'
bushels of small grain this season, most
ly oats. Roswell Register.
County Commissioner Brown Allen hal
some fine plans on trees planted out las
spring. He also had ine crop of goose
berries, on bushes set out in the spring
Water is king, especially when you hav'
the beautiful Roswell country back OF 1t =
Register.
The luscious apricot is very cheap il
Santa Fe this year. None of this fruit IL
grown IN Kansas, Nebraska or Iowa, anc
very little in Colorado. There ought tC
be big profits in supplying this large ter
rtory.
The fruit growers on the Mimbres are
beginning to market their apples, peaches
and plums. Several of them propose to
make exhibits at the territorial fair, but
the best of some of their fruits will be
gone by that time.-Silver City Sentinel.
The crops in and about Santa Fe's sub
urbs were never so heavy as this year,
particularly is the wheat and corn crop
yielding largely, and both the upper flour
mills are running day and night. 1t will
be prosperous fall for farmers in this
vicinity.
Regretful note from the Las Vegas
Optic: Lorenzo Labadie, at Santa Rosa,
has fine orchard, from which he sells
much fruit in this city but the other
men with paying orchards, IN the entire
county, can probably be numbered on the
fingers OF one hand"
DR.. W. S. Harroun has over 900 fruit
trees planted in his new eight acre orchard
west of the A., I. & s. f. depot, besides
many small fruits, vegetables, etc. He
also has set out such variety of ut-bearing
trees, as the English walnut, almond,
pecan and chestnut; also number Of
persimmon trees. This is going to be a
model fruit farm in time.
Wind mills and steam pumps promise
to be very popular institutions in the
Santa Fe valley during the coming few
years. A score or more Of fruit growers
are now planning to erect one or the
other Of these with a view to becoming
independent Of the irrigation bitches.
The Springer Stockman office has been
supplied with specimen of a new kind
of grass or forage plant that has sprung
up on the Taylor farm along the new
bitches leading from the artesian wells.
This grass shows very luxuriant growth
and Mr.. Taylor thinks it will make two
crops year.
The Ration Water Works company and
the farmers along the Sugarite have
completed satisfactory terms by which
water can be taken from that stream with
out interfering with the irrigation privi-
leges, The company is to build large
reservoir tor the storage of waste water
that will supply more water than the
farms are getting now.
Thos. Keleher, of Albuquerque, has an
orchard which for several years past has
been afflicted with green worm, the
issue of fruit destroying fly. This year
when the trees were in bloom he hung up
in them several jars half filled with sweet
ened water, and the flies scenting the
water would fly into the jars by hun
dreds. By this means Mr.. Keleher has
saved his fruit, and this year he will have
plenty of fine apples, pears, etc., for
family use and preserving. The expert
ment is simple, and Mr.. Keleher states
it is one which catches the egg-laying
fly.
Mr.. Garvey is doing considerable in the
farming line at the Chism ranch, lower
Pecos valley. He has 800 acres of corn,
with as fine prospect for big crop as
any farmer could ask for. Some of his
corn rows are a mile and quarter long
Mr.. Gsrvey is now threshing out his bar
ley crop. He had lS0 acres in this grain
this season, and the yield will reach 1000
bushels. He will save most of this crop
for seed, as he intends planting 600 acres
to barley this fall. Mr.. Garvey also has
quite lot of alfalfa as the numerous big
stacks of it testify, one of them 800 feet
long! Mr.. Garvey will let rs acres of his
crop go to seed this fall, and planted 100
acres OF new ground to alfalfa last spring.
The Folsom Weekly Metropolitan first
fair proved success. The
judges for the awarding of premiums were
Messrs. T. F. Nelson, F. B. Drew and W.
A. Long. Wm. Newkirk made the best
display of wild and tame grasses which
included forty-three different varieties.
Mr.. Newkirk had three competitors in the
persons of +. Blackburn, Jackson Tabor
and Master Clint Harper. The latter is a
boy only about years old, and who made
a very nice exhibit. Edwin Blackburn
for the best geological display took first
prize. A premium was awarded to Mrs.
Emery for the best deer's antlers. Awards
were also made for vegetables, crab ap-
Piles, cherries and gooseberries.
J.C. Leary, live stock agent for the
Union Pacific, arrived in the city from
New Mexico last evening with fifteen
carloads of cattle for the pastures in Kan
sas. Mr.. Leary says that there is a
strong movement of stock in that terri
tory headed toward Colorado shipping
points, and number of buyers are in the
buying cattle and sheep for
feeding" in Kansas and Nebraska. The
estimate has been made on the corn crop
in those states, and capitalists are placing
funds in the hands of buyers, who are
purchasing stock in New Mexico for ship