El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-23
FARMING
GOOD PROFIT IN
RAISING. APPLES
Laird & Nicholas, of Roswell,
Buy Another Orchard;
Big Potato Crop


! Roswell n. NJ, Nov. 23.-Twenty- two
/ thousand bushels from 100 apple trees,
I or 20 bushels to the acre, which. from
] accurate returns show that by careful
I and proper management IS acres could
I be made to yield a net return Of 10 per-
/ cent. on $4,000 an acre land, is the en-
/ couraging windup Of the Laird & Mich
I olas orchard for the year.
Laird & Nicholas bought the W. H.
Badger Is acre orchard of the Hager-
man tract last spring. They are more
than satisfied with the results.
The yield, which was all handled
through the Roswell Fruit Growers as
ISOLATION, was taken from the books Of
the association, as follows:
Nine thousand five hundred bushels
fancy.
Five thousand bushels other grades.
Seven thousand five hundred bushels
bulk.
The fancy grades brought from $50
to $175 per bushel The other grades
brought from 81 to SL25.
Quoting Mr.. Nicholas The returns
prove that by proper care and MANAGE
ment the orchard will net q. return OF
10 percent. on $4,000 an acre"
Buy Another Orchard.
Laird & Nicholas have bought W. G.
Urton's ~ acre 8 year old apple or
chard-price not given-because Of the
decidedly satisfactory results from the
purchase of an IS acre orchard last
spring from ". H. Badger. From the
latter they gathered $500 bushels fancy
apples, 5000 bushels of OUher grades and
1900 bushels of bulk apples The fancy
grades sold for from S1.30 to S1.75 per
bushel and the others from 81 to S125.
The net profit on the whole crop from
the IS acre orchard VIII be about
Prime alfalfa hay IS bringing s12 a
ton and in some cases So has been maid
for the fifth cutting, which laid in the
sWath for two weeks Of rainy weather.
.T0hn A Pfaff Arch Ctannha11 Chae
K Shupe, A. W. Thompson, c. G. Col
burn, J. ". Mieras, Geo. De Young and
Clifford ]. Pfaff of Grand Haven.
Mich, Fred c. Laird OF Chicago W A
Nicholas Of Roswell, N N, and Eva
Shupe LOckrOw Of Milwaukee, Wis, /
have Incorporated as the Grand Haven |
orchard company" with a capital stock
E. H. Luster Of Euda was here this
week telling the people Of the pre-
nomenal crop Of milo maize that is be- /
ing raised up and around that section. /
de says the crop Is better THE year
than ever before excepting in 1905 /
when 200 carloads will be shipped /
when 200 car loads were shupped !
There will be close to IS cars shipped /
Another Fine Potato Crop.
another interesting sweet potato
story has come to light Recently It !
was reported in The Herald that J. A. /
Brown, a BerrendO farmer, had 10000 I
pounds Of sweet potatoes to the acre
r D. wilkins, another Berrendo farmer /
who makes speciality Of truck garden
Ing, has even better record.
de was anxious to know just how
much his sweet potatoes were making.
He sacked and weighed q few rows. He
measured the ground exactly and on
the basis Of these few rows which he /
measured, his potatoes were making
$4,000 pounds to the acre. He SAYS they
were all good large tubers.
MI wilkins says there are in his
opinion great possibilities in raising
sweet potatoes here. He says that the
farmer can make good money II he re-
ceiVes only / cent a pound net The
price on the local market has ranged
from to cents this season. 1t Is
probable that arran gements will be
made next year to ship sweet potatoes
into Texas and Oklahoma.