The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-05-25
legislature the cutting of many of
the acknowledgements Advertiser.
BUTTER N EGGS
From albuquerque Journal.

With its usual wideawake regard
for the interests of Albuquerque the
Commercial Club not long ago in.
structed it's secretary to interview the
various dealers of the city and ascer-
tain, as far as possible, the aggregate
sum sent abroad by this city during
the year for the two simple articles
of butter and eggs, and the result
| was astonishing. 1t showed a sum
so much greater than any one would
/ guess that nothing out the actual fig
ures AIKEN from the books of tine
| merchants would serve to convince
one that the secretary mad not made
| a big mistake. But there are the facts
and figures, correlated by the books
| out by Albuquerque to other parts
| of the country for these two articles
is a good Zeal more than half a mil
lion dollars a year.
And yet there is no existing condi-
! ton, natural, to constitute any sort
| of reason why we should not produce
at home every dollars worth of these
commodies we consume, and have a
surplus of a few loads left over every
| year to sell to the people of less
favored sections of the country.
| While this section of New Mexico
is not as well adapted to dairying
as the blue grass regions of the cen
trail west, its facilities are fully up
to he average of the unit at large,
and much better than those of por-
tons of Kansas, from which We i'm
port a large portion of the butter
we consume. But when it comes to
poultry, this region stands right at
the top of the list. and every one
who knows anything about the matter
will tell you that all the conditions
here, and where all the hen asks is
a fair chance. So if we send away a
half million dollars a year, OF any
other number of dollars. to other
sections of the country. to pay for
these products, the fault lies at our
own doors-we have to part with our
money because we fail to utilize our
opportunities. But such conditions
will not continue many years longer.
From the earliest historic times the
only branch of husbandry that re-
ceived any considerable attention in
this territory was wool growingl
this was the business of the people.
just as corn growing is in the prair
states, and cotton growing in
south, and the production of any .,,,,
else was merely Incidental
immigration began to come
the states, twenty-five OF + , zoo.
ago, more attention was
va Vie SOIL, 49, tho ~;e
a was made of .7amn+ins :,
farm it as they To- 49,. u,+,
out making allows moo for the differ
conditions, and tn
result was I'd 80 ;, m.,or,+v =
Dun e Experience has taught tn,
immigrant a good man.
am ong which is the fact tina
n wheat farming doesn't pa,
this 6 'ountry. because one can ge
great deal more money from /;
much smaller acreage devoted to 9th
81 us es, and as a consequence. in
steao of trying to cultivate a quartei
sect ON in crops not adapted to ths
ehu nate. and getting failure as hi,
re- ward. he now confines his attention
y ad his efforts to a few acres which
J &c can water and cultivate properly
and his balance is found on the RICH
side But this sort of farming has tm
ly just commenced A few years hent,'