El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-02
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The alfalfa fields between San Mar
cial and Albuquerque are an attractive
sight just now.-Ex.
Sugar beet and alfalfa seem to be the
favorite products of the farmers of Ed
dy county, New MISUNDERSTANDING.
Some Coryell county Texas orchards
it is thought, will yield half crop OF
fruit this year.-Fsrm Stock Re-
cord.
| It is estimated that 1853, 900, 900 acres
of land throughout the world are de-
voted to the cultivation of wheat.-Ex-
change.
| Indications point to q large pear.
ounce, plum and apricot crop this sea-
son in the Salt River Valley, Arizona.
Exchange.
Farmers of the San Antonio neigh
borhoOd have subscribed upwards OF
5000 acres of land for the growing of
canaigre.-Ex.
The NAvajoes are becoming farmers.
This year about twenty of the tribe
have taken homesteads off the reserva-
tion--Exchange.
South Texas is today in better
condition to grow grass and grain
than she has been in three years.
Denison Herald,
The thirty forest reservations of the
United States embrace an area of 49,
600, 900 acres in thirteen states and ter
acknowledgements Citizen.
Stree January first of this year al 900
boxes of Mexican oranges, valued at
S121, 1893 American gold, have been re-
ceived at Kansas City.-Mexican Her
aid.
Beyond the Mississippi farmers are
late with their crops because there
was so much rain during March they
couldn't work In the fields.-Farm and
Stock.
One of the business men of Las Cru
ces, New Mexico, has planted 300
acres of tomatoes. He has a canning
factory that employs $50 people for
three months each year.-Exchange
| The farmers along San Francisco
river, in the western part of Socorro
county New Mexico, are now planting
corn. The wheat and other small grain
sown earlier in the season is now we'll
up and looking 6ne.-Exchange.
A statistician has figured out that
the Pecos valley with sits 100, 600 acres
under irrigation could raise SIC, 1000, 900
worth OF fruit year, or if planted in
alfalfa for fattening stock, would yield
an annual profit of $4,000, OOO.-New
Mexican.
By itself, wheat is not a satisfactory
food for any kind of stock, because
under mastication it swells and forms
a paste that sticks to the gums and is
apt to form Jumps and balls in tie
stomach that do not yield readily to
digestion.-Ex.
Last year California produced 1000
tons of beet sugar; this year an output
of 20, 600 tons Ia promised. The sugar
beet industry is found to be almost pro-
titable one by California farmers; there
is vastly more money in it than in rails
ing wheat.-Exchange.
Since the weather has turned
warm the farmers have got down to |
work in earnest ands astonishing pro- |
gress has been made by them in Texas. |
With timely showers crops will soon |
catch up and be ready for gathering on |
schedule time,-Exchange
A, number of persons about Waco,
Texas, are making a decided success of |
berry, fruit and vegetable growing by
irrigation from wells. The wells are |
from thirty to forty feet deep, and sup
ply sufficient water for each to irrigate
about five acres.-Exchsnge.
The acreage of the winter wheat for
the present season is estimated at 29,-I
953, 637, which is 2,3l1 1868 acres greater
than the area sOwn in the fall of 1897,
and 4.2O8, 800 acres in excess of the
winter wheat area actually harvested
IN 1S98.-Albuquerque Citizen.
1t Is said by experienced poultry
men that the eggs of young turkey
mems seldom hatch strong paults, the
irst batch of eggs being not worth u.s.
ng for Matching: the second but little
better. Eggs from turkey hens two
md three years old being best of ALL
Exchange.
E. Clements OF Reeves county, Texas,
8 an irrigationist who has converted
900 acres of nearly worthless land into
garden blooming with the most luz
rious vegetation of all kinds. 1t is
aid that Mr.. Clement has more irri-
ated land than any other farmer in
'exas.-Farm Stock Record.
Some farmers raise 80, 20, and even
0 bushels OF corn per acre, on entire
elds. Occasionally two bales of cot
on per acre is raised. On small areas,
nth special effort, $50 bushels of corn
nd more than three bales per acre
ave been raised. And yet the aver =
&c for the state of Texas is about
4 bus hels of corn and one-third of a 4
ale. or J65 pounds of lint cotton. #
hese large yields are the result of
God farming, what shall we say about +
hose farmers who make less than the '
Another fact is that these "
irgest yields are not often grown on
ne richest lands.-ExchaDge.