El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-26

the same keen interest in its develop
ment that is taken in all the great
movements tending to make conditions
better and increase the good things of
the earth in adding to human happi-
ness. Fruit growing is attracting men
and women from all Professionalism
and women of culture and refinement;
men and women who have the brains
and stamina-to till the soil and enter
a life of con entment, ease. joy and
prosperity Back to the Farm is the
slogan Throughout the East Thousands
of homeseekers are coming to the
Southwest to build up their fortunes
and homes and live rural life, where
they can enjoy the sunshine, pure air
and open sky, in the same manner
as did our forefathers, who lived a
life of nature, pure and simple. With
it's wonderful claims, it is no surprise
that the glorious sunshine of this
country is Turing men and women
from the East and the great cities,
with increasing power. The gold out
put of the United States in 1908 was
ninety millions: the fruit crop of Cali
fornia alone was more than ONE HUN
DRIED MILLION DOLLARS. Does not
this alone prove what can. be done in
raising fruit? No other branch of
farming holds out the same oppor-
tunities to the average man or woman
as growing. aid those who are
engaged In it are reaping the profits.
ALFALFA.
The alfalfa farm offers inducements
second only to the fruit farm. No farm
crop grown offers such great returns
as alfalfa, and when one considers that
under irrigation in this valley the crop
is absolutely sure. with no possibilities
of failure, practically no expense at
tached to harvesting and marketing,
/, the advantage of growing this crop
is at once apparent Alfalfa finds a
ready home demand and it will be
impossible to supply the demand. ow-
ing to the extensive ranch territory
tributary to FL Paso. The market price
in this locality is never under $40 per
ton. and much of the time sells for
SIS to $50 per ton and upward. With
the present price Of hogs. for which
alfalfa is an ideal feed, fattening them
more quickly, with a higher grade
article. than any other feed, small
farm devoted to alfalfa and hog rails
ing will soon make one Independent
Alfalfa furnishes the groundwork up
on which a more solid, substantial liv-
ing and fortune may be built than
any other branch of farming 1t is
veritable gold mine in itself Dairying,
high-grade stock raising and fatten-
ing, hog raising. poultry of all kinds.
and Bookkeeping, all spring from the
alfalfa farm, either as a main issue
or a side line. Wherever alfalfa is
grown. one finds the home of well-to-
do people, who are enjoying the good
things of the earth to the fullest AL
falfa in this valley will yield from
to cuttings per year, with am aver
age of a ton and a half per acre at
each cutting, giving net return of
from $50 to 500 per acre each year, if
sold on the local market. When fed
to stock, this return is doubled. AL
falfa grown in this valley has a frag-
rance and perfect color peculiar to this
region, caused by being cured in this
high, dry altitude. retaining all the
and color.
DAIRY FARMING.
There is no better location In the
Southwest for dairy farming than this
valley. Here the very best of feed