The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-01-22

used to feast on Jonathan when
was a boy in my fathers orchard and
I like them now.
"a Ben Davis is no more to be com.
pared to a Jonathan than a Texas
"1onghorn" is to be compared with
the beautiful white faces" tina Craze
the Texas plains.
when you go to a store for apples
ask for Jonathan Or Winesap and you
well eat them forever after.
zone of the noticeable sights at RIOS
well is the alfalfa in every back yard
and along the streets and irrigating
bitches. Some of it is in bloom all
the time from spring till fall and the
honey bees sip its nectar and the nee
tar of it's first cousin, melilotus, which
is also widely spread in the valley.
Alfalfa honey is as plentiful at Ros
well as money is among the sheep
men; and as good, too. Alfalfa is, in
deed, the greatest crop in the valley
Capt. C. w. Haynes told me that he
always cut his meadows 5 times a
year and averaged more than a ton
per cutting. Some cuttings he says
will yield two tons.
THE big cattle men, such as thu
L. F. D. people and Col. Slaughter
raise immense quantities of alfalfa
to feed the cattle in the winter. Sheep
men think it is not necessary to feed
in winter, but l was told of one sheep
man forty miles west of Artesia who
feeds alfalfa n gets more lambs
and better lambs than his neighbors.
alfalfa sold at So per ton at Ros-
well in September, but it goes higher
as winter approaches. Everybody
seems to feed alfalfa to everything
and some farmers told me that their
work horses did well on it without
any grain. 1 am a great friend of
alfalfa and have preached alfalfa for
some years, but 1 don't want it to die
in the house of its friends, hence l
shall not advise any one to drop off
grain entirely and depend on alfalfa
for horses which are at work.
"Mr. "A. R. Forsyth of Roswell says
that a half grain ration for horses
in combination with alfalfa is as good
as a whole grain ration in combina-
ton with prairie hay.
NJ will add my belief, which I think
is his also, that while alfalfa is good
for work horses it is not so satisfac-
tory for driving horses, particularly
in warm weather. 1t loosens the bow
els considerably, and causes rather
excessive urination.
"The dairy industry Of the Pecos
valley is now in it's infancy, but a
Il dulSIy AdS UGOn SIdIIcu at nus
well and 1 predict that this industry
will become one of the great one in
the valley. The natural advantages
are the very best. The water is good
the nights are cool, feed stuffs can
be raised as cheaply aS anywhere
and the price Of butter is high. Dur
ing September the creamery paid %
cents per pound for butter fat, but it
will average 25 cents per pound for
the six months from October 1 to
April 1 and probably % to 23 the
rec round. At such a price for but
ter fat dairymen can make money
because in alfalfa, which they can
raise at home, they will find the cheap
est COW feed in the world. A ton of
alfalfa hay fed to good dairy COWS
will produce 1900 pounds (not quarts)
of milk containing 4 per cen of but
ter fat or a total of forty-eight pounds
which, at 25 cents per pound, will
bring SIP. There would still remain
on the farm about 1000 pounds of
separator milk worth 20 cents per
100 pounds for feeding hogs which
makes 81 more or a grand total of
$14 worth of products from feeding
one ton of alfalfa hay. The manure
from this hay will go far to offset