Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-08-05
FRUIT, GRAIN AND GRASS.
Agriculture and Horticulture in New Mex.
iCo-Prosperous Season for the Farmer,
0rchardist and Ranchman,

UrClarulSI ii hanClnan,
Much new wheat is going to market
at Las Cruces.
Geo. E. Allen, of San Juan, is ship
ping peaches to Durango.
Cerrillos has not been receiving much
of the benefit of the past weeks rain.
The recent heavy rains in Dona Ana
cNnty did quite a little damage to al
falfa.
The range close to the lower Animas,
in Grant county, is IN excellent condi-
ton.
The rain of last week interfered with
the threShing of wheat in the neighbor-
hood of Rincon.
Deming is being a%bundantly supplied
with fruit at reasonable prices from the
Mimbres river orchards.
Visitors in the Pecos valley marvel at
the great crops which will be garnered
in that section this year.
San Juan county is talking up a fruit
and agricultural display the coming
fall. Success to San Juan's endeavor.
Kenneth McIver, who has an extensive
poultry farm near Las Cruces, contem-
plates increasing the number of his lay
ing hens to 500.
The raspberry seaso is o on at
Mora. This fruit gives its name to that
pretty valley. A good yield of this
delicious berry is expected this year.
The La Cueva Ranch Company in
Mora county has IS men at work cut
ting alfalfa. The company has about
1,s0o acres of valley land in alfalfa.
About August 6 will see the canning
factory at Las Cruces in operation. 1t
is said that 100 people will be employed.
The factory will begin by canning chile.
Eddy county apiarists all report a
large gathering Of honey. Thousands
of pounds of the finest quality of this
delicacy will be shipped from Eddy
county this season.
Ed. Scoggins, of Otis, in the Pecos
valley, has taken from 40 hives owe
5000 pounds of honey so far this season.
He is one of the most successful apiary
men in the territory.
The warm weather being experienced
in San Miguel county is causing vegeta-
ton to spring up rapidly. Ranges and
crops, flower and vegetable gardens are
alike showing the benefit.
The ranchmen, cattlemen and sheep
men can well rejoice this year. And
their joy will be participated in by every
inhabitant of New Mexico. This will be
the most prosperous of a score of years
in the territory.
S. A. Nelson, of Mcmillan, Eddy
county, is shipping caulitlower to Texas.
He has been supplying local markets
for some time. MIR. Nelson estimates
his years crop of caulit1ower at between
Is, 200 and $4,000 pounds.
G. f. Blashek, who lives near Roswell,
took from one of his poorest acres the
wheat, had it t~hreshed, sacked and
weighed, and secured a tritle over 25
bushels from the acre. The average of
the farm will be above this.
DR.. j. w. Coolidge and L. A. Schaefer
have returned to their Pennsylvania
homes after a visit in San Juan. The
productiveness of the soil and the SUI
perior quality of the products of that
section were a revelation to these gen
tlemen.
A New Mexico gentleman, an author
ity on grass seed, states that to have a
good lawn from seed, one must SOW the
seed in July or August. Cover with a
good coat of manure and do not disturb
until late spring or summer. When the
manure is removed, a perfect coating of
grass will be found.
Although almost any kind of fruit can
be raised in the Mora valley, the early
hailstorms in that section have serious
ly mterfered with a large yield this
year. There will be a light crop of ap-
pies, pears and plums. However, the
fruit raiser is compensated by an abund-
ance of strawberries. raspberries, cur
rants and gooseberries. The wheat,
corn, oats and alfalfa were never better
in the Mora, the Cebolla and the Guada-
lupita valleys. The wheat is four feet
high at present and is ripening fast.
The corn is in tassel and a full crop of
oats is looked for. The first cutting of
alfalfa, made about two weeks ago, was
30 per cent greater than the same crop
last year.