Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-05-16
WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN.

he Westher bureau, New Mexico
Section.
The pest week has been generally
unfavorable. General showers over
northern counties on the Goth were Of
not much BENEFIT on accoun. of the
cold weather following. The cold of the
2sth and 30th caused frosts almost to
the southern border OF the territory,
killing peaches. apricots and cherries
orchards. and proving somewhat injur.
ious to these fruits as far south "a the
Mimbres valley. In the extreme north
east the freeze was sufficiently severe
to cut down the alfalfa. Reports indi.
cate that the frost killed all the fruit
In the famous Mills orchard on the
Canadian river. Grass Is not coming
fast, although in general It is well
started
Landing progressing rapidly. with
generally fine prospects. Cattle show
slow Improvement. Water is generally
abundant excepting in few localities,
Notably In southern Lincoln county,
where the severe and protracted
drought still exists
The following remarks are extracted
from the reports of crop corresi ond-
ents:
Albert: J. w. Hanson: Cold nights
and high winds and insufficient moist
ure still keep backvegetation. Sleet
and snow, especially on the mesGs on
the 29th, followed by heavy frost, kill.
cd what garden truck was up and prob
ably also killed the fruit. Grass com.
Ing slowly and stock not picking up
much In consequence. Landing will
now start quite generally and pros
poets are fair Rather a cloudy week.
Highest temperature, so; lowest, 20;
rain, 0.42.
Arabela: A. N. Richardson: II 10
still very dry and no chance for farm.
ers to finish planting. Threatening for
several days and light shower, but
not enough to do any good. Grass on
the range Is drying up. Highest TEN.
perature. 81; lowest, 81; rain. trace.
Andrews: A. s. Warren: Dry and
windy. Alfalfa in fine condition and
all vegetables doing well. Stock 10
suffering somewhat for want of grass.
Bell Ranch: G. NJ. C'Donel: Country
Several good showers during the week
AMI range conditions are good, though
the Red rvSN IL very dry. Prospects
lambi,g veyy good where water is
not scaree. Prospects for fruit none:
peach trees cid not bloom. Total rain.
fall, O74.
Captain: Gsement Hightower: Week
generally uafayorable to crops. A
thunder storm. rain and sleet on the
26th. ana heavy frost and extreme cold
on 30th. water plentiful In Rio Bo-
nito and tributaries. Stock doing fairly
well Iambing well under way and no
losses Of consequence.
CarlsbaA: II. r. Christian: Week
started with light rain over the county.
which n few places did great deal
of good Thursday morning (30th) the |
thermometer reached 80 degrees but no |
fruit was damaged In this county. Ir. |
rigation water not yet turned into the |
new canal but soon will be. Highest |
Temperature. 50; lowest, SO.
Dorsey: ". C. Barnes: Another very |
unsatisfactory week. The rain Of the |
26th was very fair one, but not gen
eral In extent Water for irrigation
still very scarce and farmers are anx-
ious. II seems the heavy SHOWS of last
winter have not made SO much water
after an. No green grass to speak OF |
and range prospects bad. The ex-
tremely cold nights OF the las, ten days
are almost unprecedented, and on the !
morning Of the Goth temperature fell
to IS degrees and cut down all early
garden stun and frosted the alfalfa.
Too soon 10 say what effect II had on
fruit, but 10 Ia believed IL was not far
along to he hurt much
Folsom: Jackson Tabor: The past
week has been dry and very windy. /
and on the 2sth we had the severest
dust storm, except one, that have
ever seen IN this country. 1t was fol-
lowed daring the night by cold. dry
snow and failing temperature all next
day (2sth), and reached Is degrees
above on the morning OF the 30th, kill.
Ing all the fruit, and on the upper
Cimarron river II froze the alfalfa to
the ground. Highest temperature, 70;
lowest, Is; rainfall, 0.15.
Fort Stanton: E. w. Haistead: The
OF the heavy snow In the
furnishes plenty of water
for irrigation. and farm work Is well
along; seeding Is we'll advanced and
alfalfa is ten to fourteen inches high.
The late frosts injured the peach crop,
hut the prospect for other fruit is
good: the freeze OF the both injured
early garden stun somewhat. Highest
70; lowest. 23: rainfall.
0. 20.
Fruitland: Cyril James Collyer: Not
favorable week for crops partly cloudy
during the earlier part, followed later
by wind and cold nights. Many fruit
blossoms were killed on the night OF