The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-08-29

ne NtWn ms lulN WIN lUltI'
viewed number oi farmers com.
ing to town from various sections
OF the county, and Notwithstanding
eighty to uu,t da,s OF drought,
crops aty good, where land was
prepared carly aud cultivated.
R. Burton, larm"i who re-
sides eighteen miles south OF tn.
cumcari, vas here Monday on bus.
mess hciptu the Land Otirr, says
b ms crop A., as good a. he ever
B saw bcrr or anywhere else. He
/ has -iNtDDn acres Ot cotton that
/ r. now tnrc, t,ct high, aud has
something like thirty five ma,urcd
bolls to the stalk, aud many OF the
/ stalk, sev, ~, five bplIs aud lOrms
aud Is still growing and iruitlng.
Mr Burton has had many years
experience ~ growing cotton ~ the
south, and his cstimat, OF his crop
Is that IT will produce thrce.lourths
OF a bale TO the acre lle has
twenty acres OF Indian corn, on
second year land, that he says
will produce thlrty.hv, to forty
bushels per acre; II stood eighty TO
NINETY davs drought. lie also has
ten acres OF maIZr. ton acres OF
kaiiir corn, ten oi cane, all pt
| winch is good, two acres OF pump.
klns, some OF which ar, eighteen
inches IN diameter; one acre oi
watormoions, some oi them AZ this
tim,, before rlpcning, will weigh
forty pounds; two acres oi beans
from which he has been marketing
IN lu,umCari tor the past Nv,
month, two acres oi turnlps, ana
citron ~ the corn: all OF these
cops tar above the average. Mt.
Burton says he expects the citror
aud turnIps To- furnish his COW Iced
Tor the winter. lie j. going TO
SOW twenty acres oi alfalfa and
10 twenty acres OF wheat this tall
Mr. Burton tells us that he mad,
preparation Tor crops IN the early
wIut,i, nrok, his ground deep,
and cultivated his Indian corn tour
tunes, aud kept his other crops
clear oi weeds, and the surface OF
the soil mulch,d Ills nrighbors
b u > have good crops, those who
hav, worked them \ icw OF our
3 town farmers, hc said, have not
done vcry well
! . '. Sinclair, a farmer ten miles
east at IuCumcnri has forty acres
oi Indian corn winch he says will
produce twenty to twenty nv,
hushci- per acre, nine acres OF mil
let, thit,y.ilvc acres OF maize, and
other crops that stood from seed.
ing, IN April, until the I4th ni
july without rain. He says that
his total crops, It5 acres, will pro.
4, ducc more than last year. III,
also has followed the plan OF IN.
tense cultivation, like his neigh.
, hor, y NJ Miller. lie believes
that work should be continued
through IN, dry weather.
Tom Buc klngham, a ncIghhor
81. ol MI Sinclair, has twenty-five
= tcrrs oI beans, from which hc cX-
, poets a splendid weld.
-. " Moore, {. II Pippir
+ and Ahilrh -. Allcv, all OF san
-. ion, were in town Yesterday on
land business. Mr. Allry j. prov
i, lng up on hi, homestead, and Mr.,
5 Moore and Mr.. Plpplu were wit
ncsscs. MIR. Moore tells rs that
I forage crops IN his locality ar,
- very good. Tie does not know ot
y, any OF his nclghbors who are not
II, able To- remain tor tho ncNt croI
d. season without asst tancc. IL,
says the farmers oi his nrighhor.
hood are sowing wheat; he has IuSI
seeded IN iorty acres, and {. III
g, Miller, one OF his nclghbors, on,
r. hundred acres, and Mr.. Pipplr
y. 100 acres. 1t is estimated ihat
the San lon valley people will put
TO wheat about two thousand acres
Experiments IN wheat so tar, hav,
proven very satisfactory and II II
" believed that San lon Valley vii
bc the banner wheat section OF III,
+ county.
70 W E. Hitch, OF near Quay, whC
l- took hrst premium offered ny tn
NJ lucumcari News last ear tor tn
IL best Indian corn, Wa IN lucum
81 carr Wcdnc day and IN answer 1,
IL a question about his crops, said
rs have thirt, tiNc acres oil lndial
a corn whlou will produce from thir
a ty.hvc to forty bushels per acre
~ forty acres ot milo maizr which /
ls extra good aud viii produce fit!
u bushels per acre; six acres III kaih
10 corn that rs fine as can he; tw
g. acres OF watermclons, many q
so tnrm now wall weigh from forty I,
" fit> pounds; eight acres OF bean
NJ that are n good average; good gar
r. den; one acre OF seeded rlhbo
" cane that is hue " Speaking c
d. the crop, OF his ncighhors, MI
Sc Hitch said. bob Kanady an
tie Arthur Parduc have Inc AN corr
to kaiiir and maize that is better tina
MS last wear. All cTops lu their sec