Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-04-24

daughter, was. the first child of the
Anglo-Saxon race born in the place.
She is o 10 years of age.
Iii the Sutherland orchard are 400
bearing fruit trees. They are entirely
free from scale and the coddling moth
has never made an appearance there.
The Maiden's Blush apple trees are the
best bearers of summer apples and have
never yet failed to produce a crop. The
Winesap gives a large. high colored
and fine favored fruit, and is, perhaps,
the favorite apple tree The Timber
twig is a good bearer and Kesnick's
Cooling furnishes superior cooking ap-
pies and is sure to prodlce a crop.
The German prune trees grow to bet
ter perfection here than elsewhere, and
the fruit will supplant the California
product in the market, for it is larger
and better favored, For peaches, the
Alexander and New Mexico seedlings
are recommended as the best producers
for quality and quantity. Bradshaw
and Green Gage plum trees thrive
splendidly and give a large yield. Crab
apple trees, regardless of color, sex, or
previous condition of servitude, do well.
Apricots ditto. Mr.. Sutherland thinks
that it is poor policy to grow alfalfa in
an orchard, because it robs the trees of
vitality and divests the fruit of rich
flavor.
WINE GROWING AND ALFALFA.
In the vineyard 1000 grape vines are
fourishing. The Mission is the STAN
dard grape and the vines thrive without
killing. The Rose of Peru, Zinfandel,
Muscat of Alexander and Niagara vines
are thrifty and popular with horticuI-
~turists here. The grape crop is one
thing which has always been a source
of profit in the section. Every person
with keen perception and an acre or
more of ground, has some sort of vine
yard, and when the grape market has
been supplied, the wine season opens.
Wine passes here as currency and the
man who can make the best wine, Sc
cures the most laborers for the least
money-or wine, rather. The wine in
dustry has opened q new field of
thought for me, and if | ever establish
a newspaper, l am of the opinion that
it will be a good idea to run a vineyard
annex and pay my printers in ''booze.'
The largest La Luz orchard is owned
by the Alamogordo Improvement COM
pany, and consists of 800 trees. w. Il.
Carmack is the owner of another fine
orchard, and Mr.. B%ruebaker is operat-
ing the s. H. Sutherland orchard,
having rented the same. On the Kear-
ney ranch, owned by the A%lamogordo
Improvement company, and managed
by Mr.. Monroe, are {, 1000 fruit trees.
In the immediate vicinity Of La Luz,
alfalfa raising is developing into as
great an industry as wheat raising oc-
cupies in the mountains. About 200
acres of alfalfa has been put in. AS
high as five crops a year have been cut,
and the ranchers aver that there is more
profit in three or four crops.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sutherland are to be
congratulated for having secured such
a beautiful home. 1t would be difficult
to find a more desirable residence locali-
ty than La Luz. The worthy couple
dispense hospitality lavishly and are
entitled to the sincere thanks of The
New Mexican for the kindly manne in
which they entertained its representa-
tive. Mr.. Sutherland has ar enviable
reputation for honor and integrity and
his many friends in the county rejoice
that Governor Otero has appointed him
to a position of trust.
MANNING.