Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-13
Farmer Comstock TelIs
OF His Actual Farm
ing Experiences
SUGAR BETS CAN BE
RAISED SUCCESSFULLY
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In answer 10 soar request tar IN
article On tie possibilities 1t cur
Mesa aaaas. ws ruA saa risk III D.
lag eaAa@a u axeosa AaaaalAx ny
sosGs wsll meaning people Of our
oasy. fur the possibilities u the axaas
surrounding OIL city. ~ well - lin
the Tertiary In gsaeraL are xlazess
oeyUn1 healat.
Seventeen yeaFs 40. David bread
head 1t UeaA. spent thee asyg In
jail aaaer u tao thousand dollar
aand. On . charge u peesary Tor d.
eIagtns thai tie laha watch hx had
just aonaesteaaea out uf the desert
would raise eEaps 9!saoat arEsxssion.
not only has 10 raised fine crops OF
N1"ta ~ taEsa pgodaee. but
thas year tfsvGl h. picked peaches
nine inches i'm circumference ~Alen
were grown On that same lxaa with.
oat t.ssaats~n ia q realoa where the
rainfall does not exceed sixteen inca
60 and the saIl contains ~ mueh ~
kali thai thousands u acres have
&S "@& &&@&8&@ N@E&&&M EAMN#&&N0
irrigation. Nh. hFoadAeaa has been
working under both the lrragxtisn
and dry farming systens." md
finds the latter much the besa Sure
ly We a obtain better results with
an aneaaallsd soil. FREQ from alkall.
and with q rainfall from III In ID In
ehea THIS article must necessarily
be a reaash Of what we have already
written. What has been written. We
oas DR. MT oasy possibilities. hut
absolute c~ertainties." We remarked
10 a friend yesterday. that syery
time We went ovsr TO the dry farm
and saw the crop of winter wheat
groa ing. We raised the price Of the
land a dollar per acre.
Yea" said ne. and you no over
every day. too. with that peculiar
took which said, YOU are talking
through your hat again: Just the
same We have never seen anything
lake 1t. at the same time We are not
cooking for any startling results this
season. being the Sod crop. Our ten
ecres of winter rye sowa the first
day Of November. In simply splendsd
II we could raise nothing else. VII
could make a fortune raizing rye 10
oe led TO hoss. There In q general
se.lea that hogs cannot he raised
successfully without corn. The taets
sre. corr Is Tar Inferior TO rye. bar
ey. oats. Canada peas. all of which
can be grown here. making 4 swee..
er meat. free from disease. How.
ever. corn, Of the earlier varieties.
9th Dent AID Flint, can BE- raised
at a profit.
Contrary to the general belief. po
tasoes viii do better without irriga.
tion than with n, but probably We
can only raise the early. possibly the
medium varieties. such an Improved
Early Rose. Early Ohio. irish Cob.
Ter and many others. Buckwheat
can be grown. but must be planted
ii the first days Of June instead uf
Iaiy. az they do down east. Brown
eoTn VIII be a success. probably IL
viii not pay to ship II 10 Chicago IN
City. owing to excessive
tran sportation charges. but some en-.
ergetic person, understanding the
manufacturing Of brooms. coufa
make n good thing supplying the
territory with the home product. Our
mountain forests contain the spruce
which makes the best Of handles.
FALLING for another small factory.
A man In California has made IN
independent fortune raising Mexican
beans. A man with confidence
nough In himself to buy and break
up a section or more OF our land,
a do a. wen here. tor there ara no
better beans raised than were grown
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