The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-13

that have been planted on each side,
and in : many places, b branches
meet overhead and make the pretdest
shady driveways imaginable. These
trees do not sap the life out of the ap-
pie trees or alfalfa growing close to
them as seem natural. b soil
is SO rich as to give sustenance to
the trees and whatever grows near or
under them. These farms and orch
ards range in size from hundreds of
acres down to five acres, and may
be smaller. The many thousands and
thousands of apple trees make me
wonder who will a all the apples or
drink all the cider that could be made
from them. They are shipped from
loads after train loads, and then some
more. Large figures about the apple
crop were given me-, sufficient to take
my breath away, but / only remember
a few of them. I am told of a man
here who sold his last years crop of
apples to a Chicago firm who took
them from the trees at their own eX-
pense of picking and paid a hundred
and one thousand dollars for them. /
had to swallow the assertion, big is
it was, while the Chicago people are
swallowing h apples; and if Chicago
does not keep her affairs in apple pie
order, this western city will be blame
less, for any lock of apples. And ap-
Piles and alfalfa, although they are
the main push, if you will excuse the
slang, are, by no means, all that will
grow here. Other fruits and crops
do well; but I mean no criticism by
saying that the raising of apples and
alfalfa seems to be a fad" with the
people here-a fad that pays them
well too, for they are h backbone
of in this locality. Potatoes
beets, celery, onions, tomatoes, ETC.,
do excellently well. Corn will do well
in the stalk and fodder; but in the fill
ing out of the grains, will hardly come
up to the promise given by the stalk,
The lack of dew is the cause of the
shortage of grains on the cob. There
Is no dew here; and Then the corn is
in silk and tassel, it is dry above
ground; n the young ear with its
silk at the tip, fails through its dry
ness, to catch the pollen from the tas-
sci, that in its mysterious influences,
make the grains grow on the cob. r.
rigation at b roots of the stalk will
not perform the office of the dew in
causing the pollen to adhere to the
silks.
This locality is claimed by it's peo-
pie to he a veritable garden spot,
| and they have good foundation for
Il lliS Slo1lh. L a a. IIo1y pCopiC
| wealthy, and many more are on the
road to wealth, with excellent pros
! poets for success 1t is iblossoming
far more abundantly and to a better
purpose than the pr~overbial rose.
| What interested me, as / think per-
haps some of your readers will be in
terested, are the conditions that pre-
| vail and the methods followed in ex-
tracing wealth from the ground. To
L nv {hor- hnh,o NJ ro;~ J&r -,o,,lI
be nearly but not quite true. A little
in July and August, only, but not
enough to do crops any appreciable
good. Those who would depend on
rain here should not come; or, if they
were here, they should move away,
quickly. Life and growth from the
ground is entirely sustained by irri-
cation. The country would be almost
al arid waste without it, with not a
tree or shrub to shade a rabbit. The
familiar old order to the hog to root
hog or die" would tbe Abandoned; for
the hog would die anyhow. Here it is
'irrigate or die" Besides North Spring
river that / have mentioned, and
| some others similar, but smaller, the
water for the city and farming coun-
try is obtained by boring wells $50 to
500 feet deep, to artesian flow.
They are cased with six or eight inch
pipes, according to the amOunt or wa
ter desired, and the water spouts a
few feet above the ground, to the full
capacity of the pipe used some at the
highest degree of the city, will not
spout, blu will come within a few
feet Of the surface of h ground, and
then a pump with the same capacity
as the pipe, is to hoist the water out
at the same rate as those which
spout with their own force. And cleo