Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-12-20
REMARKABLE RECORD.
What New Mexico Can Do When it
Comes to Horticulture and
Agriculture.
To the L itor OF the New Mexican.

To the 'itor OF the New Mexican.
EDDY, n. NJ, Dec. 18.--It will no doubt
interest many of your readers to learn of
some of the remarkable growths of vege-
tation and some of the large crop yields
that have occurred in the Pecos valley
during the past year.
For instance, Capt. j. S. Shattuck, of
Eddy, raised several Chinese cling peaches
that were 3 d inches in diameter and that
weighed 8 to 10 ounces each. jas. 7.
Hartigan, Of Eddy, raised some Lemon
cling peaches 3 inches in diameter, that
weighed s to 0 ounces each. Col. John
W. Poe, of Roswell, raised some pound
pippin apples 4 Il inches in diameter
that weighed ii pounds each. Sam
Hughes, of Eddy, exhibited sheaf of
oats feet inches high, and the super
intendent of the Garrett ranch, Roswell,
one that is 1 feet 3 inches. Both speci-
mems are well headed. j. L. Young, of
Malaga, sends in a stalk of alfalfa 3
months old the tap root of which is over
| 2 feet long, and Col. Poe, a cluster of
same, 2 years old, containing 100 stalks,
all from one seed, the tallest being feet
inches long. The tap root of this clus
ter is nearly | inch in diameter and was
over five feet long.
Hodge Wilson, Of Eddy, furnishes a
sheaf of millot feet II inches high, and
Ed. Scoggins, of same place, one that is
5 feet l inch. stalk of bamboo cane
on the Bankenship farm, near Eddy,
grew to height of l5 feet 5 inches, and
a stalk of corn from the Greene farm,
near Eddy, measures l3 feet 2 inches. A
watermelon grown on j. Z. Stones farm,
near Roswell, is "a inches long, Al inches
in circumference and weighs "A pounds.
Another watermelon, grown by Fischer
Bros, of Eddy weighed As pounds, and
Julian Smith, of the same place, shows
one that weighs 4813 pounds.
Alfred Necker, of Eddy, raised a silver
squash that weighed 7O15 pounds, and
Julian Smith one that weighed 60 pounds
C. F. Bassett, of Eddy, shows a sweet
potato weighing pounds and 10 ounces,
and L. S. Motter, of same place, sugar
beet weighing 17l4 pounds.
j. 7. Hartlgan, of Eddy, sends in
Muscat grape vine, grown during the
past summer, that measured 16 feet 6
inches, and l.. W. Holt, of Seven Rivers, a
Mission grape vine, of one summers
growth, % feet and 10 inches long.
X. NJ. Gilbert, of Seven Rivers sends in
samples of one seasons growths on his
farm, as follows: Branch of Usage orange
IS feet 4 inches; branch of apple tree
feet inches; branch of peach tree feet
inches; branch of cherry tree feet 10
inches; branch of plum tree feet
inches. james Hogg, of Seven Rivers,
furnishes branch of cottonwood tree
IS feet and inch, grown in one summer,
and j. Rourke, of Eddy, castor bean
stalk II feet 4 inches high. All these
specimens are now on exhibition at the
bank building in Eddy and are daily in
pected by dozens of new settlers who are
coming in. No sensible man can, after |
examlng them, doubt for a moment that
The Pscos valley is one of the richest in |
the world.
Ed Scoggins has s acres of alfalfa that |
he has cut five times; the total yield being |
713 tons to the acre. He sold the hay at |
S16 to SIS a ton; the cash returns amount
ing to over $l25 an acre.
Maynard Sharpe has a field of sorghum
that yielded over s tons to the acre that
is selling at $l2 ton.
C. W. Greene raised 100 acres Of Egyp-
tian corn that has yielded $50 to $75 an
acre, for the seed alone. In addition to
this he gets 3 to tons of fodder to the
acre.
Julian Smith, l. 7. Franks and John
Powman, all of Eddy, have gardens that
have yielded in cash $500 to $500 an acre.
Many Others have realized equally good
results, but | will not intrude further on
your space to recite them. l only desire
TO show that Pecos valley farmers are
Notwithstanding the SANDER
1us reports sent out from certain rival
G. O. SHIELDS.