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BULLETINS
From New Mexico College Of Agrl-
culture.
In bulletin No. Is. gave q few OF
the earliest fruits with short descrip-
tions thereof, and l promise to describe
others as the season advanced. Dur
ing the month of July several varieties
of apples, peaches, plums and pears,
have ripened; the best of these include
the following sorts:
Apples: The Yellow Transparent;
Peaches; Waterloo, Hynes Surprise.
and Family Fsvorite; Plum: Royal
Hativa; Pears: Lawson, and Andre
Des Portes.
The Yellow Transparent apple ripens
about the 1st of July and Ia the best
that comes in up to this date. Size, me-
dunn to large, roundish; skin pale yell
low: flesh white, crisp and juicy, pleas
ant sub-acid, excellent both for eating
and for cooking. 1t should be planted
as family and commercial sort. Totof-
sky, ripens Jnly 9th, size medium;
roundish oblate; skin light yellow
when fully ripe: flesh white, crisp, jul
cy, mild sub-acid, very pleasant; fruit
of uniform size, good cropper; there
| fore good market kind. Sylvonian
Sweet:-Similar to Tetofsky in shape
and color only larger; flesh white, jul
| cy, with mild sweet flavor, good
markable apple: ripens about July
| Goth.
The Waterloo is the best of the
Alexander type of peaches. 1t ripens
about the first of July. Hynes Sur
prise, although not fruitiug in the Col
lege orchard this year, is too good a
peach to be passed by unmentioned. In
shape it resemb les the Alexander, but
pearance. It is the first free stone to
ripen, although little acid, it is of
very good flavor, being rich and vinous
It is always in great demand on the
market, and ripens about the 9Th OF
July. Family Favorite:-lsrgeo blopg;
skin light creamy yellow, shaded with
red, handsome; flesh white, red at
stone, firm, juicy, with highly aroma
| tic flavor, not very sweet but pleasant,
ripens the last of July.
Pears: Lawson, medium to large
piriform; skin light green and yellow,
with red blush; flesh firm, juicy, quail
ity only fair; ripens July 3rd. Andre
Des Fortes: medium. piriform with
neck, long and shouldered, skin thin,
light green; flesh white, juicy, melting,
sub-acid of good flavor: ripens July
18th.
Plum: Royal Hativa or early
ish; skin light purple, with blue
bloom; flesh amber color, with rich
high flavor: nearly free; tree a good
bearer; would probably sell we'll.
OF the three varieties Of grapes that
ripened in July; viz, the Hartford: Ex-
celsior, and Wilder, the Wilder is we'll
worth mentioning. It is an American
variety, being one of Rogers by bride,
and not likely to be frost killed. Its
clusters are of fair size, berries me-
dunn, round, loosely set: skin black;
flesh juicy, of sweet rich flavor;
ripens the last of July. On account of
the extreme earliness of this grape, 1t
should become popular market
sort.
HUMBOLDT CAsAD.
CLEAN CULTIVATION.
During q recent visit to California.
the writer was impressed with the re-
markably thorough cultivation prac-
ticed there, especially in orchards.
In California, as with US, the greatest
agricultural question is one of water
management.
There has been a long drouth
throughout the southern part of the
state, and the orchardist has endeav-
ored by thorough cultivation of the
soil, to save the soil moisture for the
trees. The implements used are the
spike tooth and the Acme harrows.
The orchards are absolutely clean.
AS one passes through the country
by train it seems continuous grove of
fruit trees, and weedy orchard is
hard to fud. For the most part they
are as clean as good market gardener
would keep his hot beds. Cultivation
Is continuous. The weeds are scarcely
allowed to start, much less foot-hold.
The purpose of cultivation ia not to
remove weeds so much as it is to main
tain good soil-mulch in the orchard.
The College orchard has been har-
rowed, and planked, and worked with
the Acme almost every week since
growth began, but there are some
weeds in lit has not the perfectly
clean appearance of many California
fields.
But the thorough tillage kept the
soil in fine condition even during the
long period from June Sd to July 18th,
when the Rio Grapde was dry and
when there was not enough rain to Law
the dust.
In rainy seasons it is almost impos-
sible to keep the orchard clean, but
fortunately the same necessity for till
age does not exist IN rainy as in dry
times.
CHARLES A. KEFFER.
August 18Th, 1899.
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