El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

that was only planted in September,
1910, and has already harvested four
crops this year. and no inner alIalIa
was ever grown anywhere. The sIanG
is perfect. the color rich, the stalk
nutritious. Tests made of the plant
show that it is very rich in rlesh
building matter for cattle There are
1900 acres Of alfalfa under irrigation
in the valley around Portales
Judge Lindsey has farm IN the
edge Of town. on which he has been
making experiments this year. and the
results are almost marvellous. He has
only 20 acres under cultivation and has
made enough from the land to pay for
its cost He put in an acre and a
half in corn and sold over $40 worth
Of roasting ears, yet appears to have
a full crop still on the stalks for
feeding his horses. A third of an acre
be put in cabbages and he sold over
$50 worth of this product and yet the
worms got at the vegetables and d1c
much damage. ''I just didn't take the
time or trouble to have them cared
for" he said. else I could have saved
them all He took off a crop Of milo
maize from another acre that neLted
over 40 bushels to the acre, besides the
fodder and the second crop grew up
high enough to make good fodder, al
though 1t failed to head. He grew
another acre in kaffir corn and the
production was about the same He
put in a third Of an acre in California
wheat and two acres in COW peas The
Whest did well and he gathered two
crops Of peas and cut the vines after
the second crop and baled them for
stock food. He put In an acre IN cot
ton and Il grew two and three feet
high and produced green bOlls as big
as ordinary hens eggs, which opened
well and showed a fine quality Of lint
A bale to the acre IS about what 1t
Melted, which IS similar TO the pro-
ductiOn around Carlsbad, where cot
ton has been grown for several years.
In
and it Melted over 10000 pounds
Sugar Beets.
Two acres were put into sugar beets
ana their quality was so far beyond
expectations, that the Judge and every
body else Is highly pleased, for POr-
tales expects now to have a beet and
sugar factory inside Of a year.
The American Beet Sugar company.
Of Garden City, Kan, suggested that
these beets be given trial and made
the proposition that If they came cup
to expectations, II would take them at
- ton, f. o. b. POrtales The COM
pany Is paying IS at Garden City. but
the freight rate from POrtales TO
that point IS 50. so that the POrtales
people get 81 more on the ton for
their crop than the Garden City peO-
pie Sample shipments to the labOra-
tory Of the Garden City company
showed the Portales beets to be bet
ter in quality than had been expected.
They are unusually superior in sugar
condiment," wrote the chemist Of the
company
Sugar Factor Proposed
The company asked the farmers to
plant about 500 acres to Justify it in
shipping them, but only about 200
acres were grown this year. The
they have all been taken. The com
pany has about 40 acres Of its own
under cultivation in beets in the val
lev. as an experiment, under the care
1H O .--T--. =
nerIS VINO Is not only looking after
his own crop. but advising with the
valley growers. DR. G. o. Townsend
the company's chemist. has recently
oe1n mere giving the farmers some
talks and URGING them to plant next
year. He and Mr. Thrasher for their
company, have made the nropositfOn
70 erect sugar factory in POrtales as
soon soon rs 100 acres are planted to beets.
and the agreement provides to take
All beets the farmers produce I'D TO
total OF 5000 acres. Tt is consfd-
cred certain that the sugar factory win
2e contracted for before the end Of
Reclaimed BY Pumping.
Not only are vegetables and farm
crops being grown here. but also
fruits Of all description. Evervwhere
are orchards. all young, for the com
itself is young, and even the
Yards In town have their fruit trees
as well as their black locust poDTsr
ana. cottonwood shade trees The var5s
are all planted in bluegrass and al
= n q l4 llg the courthouse lawn. (
-n Ine heart OF town. Every farm
mouse has its grove Of fruit and orna- /
le ntal trees As a sample Of what [
-Iley can grow around POrtales. the I
nam per or commerce exhibits peach (
y elsnine q pound, grown by John p
stevenson, 10 miles from town 5~T ]
7ncther Of equal weight grown nv
postmaster C. o Leach in town An