El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-21

I'm regard to the conversation we had, permit me
to say that we had planted farm this year forty
five acres OF potatoes thirty acres Of BEANS besides
corn, kafflr-cOTn mLO-malze and other crops wish
to especially call your attention to the possibilities Of
two crops season We had two and One-half acres Of
early potatoes planted the 18th to Goth Of March
which averaged me-hundred-six bushels to the acre
which were marketed In July. The entire potato crop
marketed at 2 lie per pound.
'On August 9TH we planted this same land to Cali
fOrnia Pink Beans and thrashed 22OO pounds OctO
Der ID We also sOWed the same land about the LIST
Of August ten Of cane which stood from two to six
feet high and which harvested October 1st and
as fine feed as I ever saw"
John Humid, who has been engaged in irrigation all
his life, principally in California, talks of alfalfa and
beans, as follows:
Alfalfa in less than one year turned off six tons
Of hay that sold for fifteen dollars ton or ninety dol
lars an acre. The beans were on new land, which
Qures more water the first year than it takes the
Ond year afterwards, conditions not always
what the crop requires, but the bean crop made 1900
pounds to the and sold for dollars and twenty
five cents per hundred pounds seventyve dollars
per acre"
Sam Schwing, whose place is on the eastern edge
Of town, makes the following among many other per-
tinent remarks:
ct have this year cultivated Is acres Of alfalfa, Of
which 10 acres is seeding Basing my calculations
on acres Of old seeding upon the production Of the
this season and upon the cost OF electric power to
ME for the season. safely say that after paying
for the power can realize 94 per acre from alfalfa at
the present market price, from which must be deducted
the labor costs This is the first year have used cleo
trio power 1t is little more expensive than gasoline
but is much more convenient and would not care to
change back"
Chas. E. Hicks, prominent Dakota farmer who
located here three years ago. gives his idea ofland val
Ues here:
BASED on alfalfa this land will produce at least
$4,000 per acre gross plan setting out 20 acres Of
apples In the near future and believe that they viii earn
from $500 to $00 per acre gross year and year out
There will be no excuse for ever losing an apple CROP
and if that should prove to be true the average should
be much higher.
Manual Pena, one Of the Oldtiners Of this region,
has this to say concerning fruit-grOWing in the MINI
bres Valley:
''AppIes do remarkably well We have fifteen
acres in apple orchard which receives practically no
care. la favorable seasons we produce from seventy
five to ninety thousand pounds of merchantable apples
which sell from my wagon at not less than three cents
a pound, finding a ready market I am informed by
those who claim to know that with closer attention to
the fruit it viii increase the average product by pre-
venting losses in bad years
Hon H. B. Hening, Secretary of the Bureau of I'm
migration Of New Mexico, becomes convert and re-
cords his conversion as follows:
II am very glad to have your letter Of October Is,
and assure you that everything that has occurred since
my last letter to you about two years ago has served to
Secretary Cha: