Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-24
FARM AND ORCHARD.

Santa Fe county can make the best ex-
hibit OF grain, fruit, vegetables and gras-
ses as any county in the territory. 1t will
be of incalculable benefit to our people to
demonstrate this fact at the territorvial
fair at Albuquerque.
E. B. George has ripe cherries now Of
large size and very delicious flavor, the
first ever grown on the Sacramento, in
Eddy county. Raspberries, straw berries,
currants, gooseberries and cherries grow
wild in profusion all over the mountan
submits there.
Colfax county has more and better grass
this year than it has produced in many
years heretofore. For miles and miles
along the A., T. q S. f., and within
sight of the passengers on that great
thoroughfare, luxuriant grama grass is
waving in the breezes Of this delightful
climate.
On the Maxwell farm 200 tons of alfalfa
have been cut and they are still cutting.
Eighty acres Of oats have been cut and
the yield is from sixty to seventy bushels
to the acre. There have been no damag-
ing floods, have had plenty Of water and
the farmers are highly pleased at the re-
suit. Mr. Pels is astisfed that this is grea
wheat country and that raising it will
soon become a great industry. Ration
Range.
Silver City note: Up the river from the
Mimbres settlement are some of the pret-
tiest ranches within the confines OF Grant
county, as well as a number of the most
thrifty farmers. For distance of about
four miles, as far as cultivation has been
attempted to any extent, crops are in a
tiourshing condition, as water exists in
great abundance, and all the properties
are being farmed for what they are worth.
o. W. Anthony owns two ranches of
12O acres each, los of which are under
cultivation. There are seven acres in
beans, thirteen in potatoes, sixteen in al
falfa, one and half acres in onions, and
four in cabbage and turnips, the balance
being in corn, and general garden truck.
The orchards consists of $40 trees, mostly
young, and nursery OF 1000 more. One
hundred peach trees will be set out this
fall. Some of the peach trees only two
years old, and grown from the bud are
already bearing, whilst two peaches were
plucked from tree in the nursery, which
is but little more than year old. The
trees are nearly all in bearing and the
trees are breaking down with their loads
of fruit. Small fruits such as berries, etc.,
grow in wild profusion City En-
terprise.
The packing of apples is science in
itself. Fraudulent packing will not work,
so there is no use to attempt it, to say
nothing of the swinde. Use good coop
erage and nothing but the very best fruit.
Take out one head OF the barrel, break off
the ends OF nails inside, place layer of
bright, smooth apples of uniform sixe at
the bottom, stem down, then fill up care.
fully, now and then shaking the barrel,
keep on doing so until filled to two or
three inches above the top hoop. Place
the head on the apples and use press.
Apples must be packed tight, or they will
damage in shipping. After placing the
head securely, then turn the barrel over
and mark on the end the variety the bar
rel contains.
J. w. Garvey tells the Roswell Register
that he has in addition to the 900 acres of
corn now ''laid by" and full of promise
for grand yield, over 100 acres of beaLs,
most of which he planted on the ground
occupied by his barley, after that crop
was harvested. Mr.. Garvey claims that
beans is one OF the most profitable crops
we can raise here. They will yield from
800 to 200 1b. to the acre aud worth 5
cents per pound in the market They can
always be planted on the small grain land
after the harvest is over, the farmer thus
getting two fine crops from the same land
Mr.. Garvey says that big alfalfa stack of
his is more than 600 feet long, 10 feet
high and contains 220 tons of alfalfa. He
has numerous other stacks nearly as large.
He is now busy cutting his third crop of
alfalfa, and will get still another fine crop
before frost comes.