Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-05
PEC0S VALLEY
IContinued from First Pagel.

IT. lbs. .ho orororo 81 his cron
~ w csa e H. g. ,,looo hos
raised sixtv-three tons of this sugar
moter to the ocre The cultivation of
this product is new here, but when it is
considered that the territorial average is
1874 per cent of actual sugar to the total
weight Of the beet, it will be seen what
can be done in the Pecos country. Ex-
pertinent will develop that ton of sugar
can be raised to the acre.
Sugar beets weighing over sixty ounces
have been raised. The best weight, how
ever, is from twenty to twenty-five
ounces. This is for the reason that
beet only has limited amount of terri
tory from which to draw its saccharine
d Qualities, after it goes above the weight
recommended the gain is only in pulp.
An acre full of twenty-ounce beets will
yield more sugar than an acre of the large
pulpy ones. The former will 60 as high
as IS per cent Of sugar solids. The lat
ter will seldom reach over IL or IA. The
farmer proposing this culture should
bear this in mind.
A beet sugar factory will shortly be
erected at Eddy The company has made
all arrangements and the work will go
ahead.
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a. sn;r,a naoass;tu ~ bis hnsinass 70
a sno p az ahonoe WI, than should the
forruar ol,ow his ,rodnct To denend on
timelv shovers or DEVASTATING droughti
Water at small cost can be controlled alb
solutely, and fed to growing crops, not
fortuitously, but at the exact moment
when needed. Another advantage of the
irrigated farm is the wide range of cul
ture it allows. On the eastern farm the
owner is practically restricted to those
crops that suit his rainfall For some
very valuable plants that his soil would
raise it is too much, for others it is toe
little. This is not SO with the irrigator
He makes his climate. He puts his crops
in the ground and depends on them as Ger
tain1y as the factory owner on his product
He can control his water absolutely. He il
sure of sunshine He knows the consti
tuents of his soil. What more can he de
mand! The irrigator is not hapless
farmer; he is manufacturer of food
This because he goes about his work in 6
| rational manner
Ihere IS another way TO consluer irrl
ga'ion. ~ 40 Gu -no hos;t.tn e ~,
~ eas %, ~ an, AMI 49, Nv wv, ~
p VI 80 "nna: 49, ~ ~, ~ uo,,,o -
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WATER RIGHTS IN THE pEoos VALLEY.
A perpetual water right is sold by the
Pecos Irrigation and Improvement com
pany, at $40 an acre, or $500 for forty
| acre tract, payable in ten annual install
ments of 81 each, per acre, with interest a
per cent on the deferred payments. This
water right might also be considered par
of the cost of the land. Without waite
the soil is useless. Hence if land ant
water cost S35 an acre, and that land will
produce larger and better crops than al
eastern farm, why should anyone hesitate
about coming to tho Pecos?
! The additional cost for annual service
of water is $1.25 per acre.
| A water right is enough water to cove
an acre of land twelve inches deep an,
consis's VI f6,ooo cupio ioe' Poi annun
This amount of water is sometimes calle
an acre foot.
1nn,a.r,oN AS . pEnrr11zrn.
| mi,
.;dared T. is vary seldom and onlv 70
special plants or experiments that th
irrigator is bothered with the use of fei
tiliZers or manures on his land. Tn
water does all that for him. As said bt
fore, the Pecos water used in the amour
ern farmer more dollars az: than hi, Gro !,