Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-07-25
FARM AND ORCHARD.

Tomorrow the Mesilla valley will begi
it's grape shipments. Lucky Mesilla.
Roswell boasts of having two "sevel
acre melon patches" in its neighborhood
The young man who does not get hol,
of few acres of land and set it out Il
fruits makes big mistake.
John Brockman's farm in Grant count,
comprises 1000 acres, three-fourths O
which is under high state OF cultivation
New Mexico is the best watered sec
ton of the west. Only storage reservoir
are needed, and where these can not bt
located artesian wells or pumps and wind
mills will do the business.
Celery is one of the choicest and mosl
profitable crops produced in the Santa
Fe region. The home product has g
flavor superior to that OF any other sec.
| ton.
Santa Fe county will this year harvest
crop of small grain, corn, beans, fruit
and vegetables generally fully 20 per cent
larger than ever before.
The production of grapes in Santa Fe
and vicinity is no longer an experiment.
varieties will flourish hereabouts.
raspberries ana rsAtfaaSpeqias. r"Efe geto
35 cents quart there is big profit in
this fruit, and the demand can not be
met, no matter how many engage in the
business.
The San Juan Agricultural association
is preparing for its usual county fair in
September. Its enterprising board of di-
rectors consists of j. e.. Willett, f. M,
Pierce, S. T. Maupin, George Hood, E.
O. Booram, N. L. Hayden and W. Locke.
S. A. Nelson has just harvested twenty
acres of fine oats. A specimen which he
brought to town the other day and deliv-
cred to Mr.. Tracy, agent for the Pecos
Valley Town company, had ia stalks,
all grown from one seed.-Roswell Reg
lister.
What are our farmers and fruit raisers
going to do about sending exhibits Of
Grant county fruits, vegetables, grains
and fodder to the territorial fair? Grant
county is noted for the excellency of her
fruits, and her fruit growers should see
that they have good exhibit. Sentinel.
The Bernalillo farmers have devoted
their chief energies to fruits and alfalfa
and small grain this year. 1t is the line
upon which to win. They will market a
superior crop of peaches and apples this
season. In tact, they have had the latter
fruit on the market for three weeks past.
The Guadalupe Valley Irrigation, Re-
servoir & Manufacturing company held
business meeting at Nogal the other day.
These present were J. F. Hinale, T. @.
Tillotson, J. B. Mathews, John Thornton
Jas. j. Dolan and Emil Fritz. This COM
pany is the outgrowth of the compromise
of the water rights difficulties at Badger
vile and the Lower Penasco.
OF the st. Louis enterprise organized to
store water in the Rio Hondo, Pecos val
ley, for irrigating 60 900 acres of land, the
Roswell Register says: Latest advices
from st. Louis, however, confirm the
truth of the former announcement that
the reservoir will certainly be built, and
that it will be completed inside of eighteen
months.
Agriculture is making great strides in
Grant county, as demonstrated by the
Enterprises article on the Mimbres val
ley. The article is illustrated with 6
scene from Thompson's fruit farm. The
heading of the Enterprises article reads
thus: "a productive farming and frui
growing section-the Egypt of New Mex
leo; forty miles of waving corn, Thousands
of acres in alfalfa garden of fruit anc
flowers q Golconda of wealth, happiness
and prosperity all in Grant county"
San Juan county: Mr.. T. J. Allen O.
the La Plata, has six acres of volunteer
wheat, grown without irrigation, that ii
really remarkable. He planted the grount