The Estancia news. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1904-1912, 1909-04-30
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| J. B. Williams who returned
from Pueblo, Colorado, Monday
evening, where he has been en-
ployed the past winter by the
Frazer Saddlery, has announced
that he will start a tannery at
his ranch three miles southwest
of town. 1t is his intention to
purchase the raw hides, tan the
leather, and work it up into
saddles and harness which he
will supply to private customers
and the local stores.
Mr.. Williams has been work
ing at this trade a number OF
years and has heretofore success
fully conducted a similar .busi-
ness. 1t goes without saying
that he will find ready market
for his goods, as he will be able
to place a moderate price on the
goods, not only on account OF
doing the work himself, but also
that he will save the freight
rate on both the raw hides and
the leather. Such a plant ought
prove remunerative in marked
degree.
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described. In the first place, on the
first breaking, artichokes should be
dropped in every second furrow close
up to the free edge of the sod. Two
burrows should then be plowed and an
other row of tubers planted. The rows
would then be % inches apart, which
would give them plenty Of room. The
sod should be rolled so as to make a
perfect sod mulch, and the pulverizer
run over it once, which is all the at
tention the crop will need, as there
will be no weeds the first season. At
least five acres of the very first plow.
ing should be put into artiehokes and
the next ten acres should be put into
potatoes. Under suitable conditions the
field will run from 50 to 100 bushels
per acre.
The next crop to be put in is Canadian
peas. For these the sod should be sin
gle disked Twenty-Five acres Of peas
sown broadcast and then disked in
for hay and then rs acres that are
intended to thresh should be drilled in
with a Planet Junior seeder, drawn by
single horse. Twenty-Five acres
should be put in roots, such as sugar
beets, turnips, carrots and rutabagas.
Five acres should next be put in ssy
beans. twenty-five acres can then be
put in bald barley, Ten acres can be
put into macaroni wheat, and last 20
acres should be seeded to alfalfa. A
good stand of alfalfa can be got on
sod just as easy as stand of flax. The
| seed bed for this latter should be thor
oughly prepared by disking and har-
rowing, ard the seed drilled in and
narrowed at once, after which it must
no. be interfered with by narrowing,
as the plant is very tender and is easily
broken off. 1t will not furnish much
J forage the first year, and hogs and
cattle and horses must be kept off it.
The chickens will however enjoy it
and repay in abundant eggs. The sec
ond season it will furnish soil crop
for cows and hogs during the summer
and hay for winter. In this connection
want to say that the Canadian peas
will furnish all the soil crop needed
the first year. The land that has been
in roots and peas can be back set in
the fall and farmed the second year the
same as if it had been summer fallowed
This would give nearly 80 acres the
season for barley or macaroni wheat
The 80 acres of barley and macaron
wheat land, which should be fall plowed
! can be used for roots, peas and tubert
? the second season. BY growing a sue
cession of intertilled crops the lane
5 can be cropped every year, or at leas
} three crops out Of four years can b,
4 grown successfully. After the frs
. year, however, all can be titled.