El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-31

lard's.-Advertiseme
after dinner, which was followed by
! the whole assemblage being photo
/ graphed, the party continued on TO the
| ranch OF county judge y. ). J. Eylar,
! OF FL Paso, and w. {. BulSer, yard
| master of the Santa Fe railroad, IN FL
| PaSO. Judge Eylar- has 80 acres and
| Bulger so and each has about 80 in
! cultivation On the Eylar property,
/ alfalfa and grain are raised, and these
I are fed to buyers hogs, mostly Dur
| roc Jerseys of which he has 100, while
( he also has go small pigs. Shipments
J OF the pigs are made from time to time
/ Milo maize, also raised on the Eylar
/ tract, is fed to them.
/ Z. g Richard is the manager Of both
I places. He takes good care of the pigs
and is trying to raise some milk cows
iced and 4 dairy may be established at
the same time Early this season he
/ dipped the hogs three times in vat
specially constructed with a chute.
However, he had abandoned this and
has wallOw holes in the pens and scat
tered about the land in which water IS
pumped Oil is poured into this and
the hogs dip themselves and are kept
I free from lice.
Pumps Are Operated.
There are two pumps in operation on
the Bulger property, one is a l2-hOrse
power engine on a 1O-fOOt well and the
q
power on 14-foOt we'll Since the IN
duStry was started two years ago, 200
pigs have been sent to the market.
Some turkeys are also raised and last
season about 500 were sold They are
in good condition and doing well.
Just two miles southeast, the ranch
of c. I. Bartlett was reached. Anyone
who has ever seen New England farm
would know Immediately that Mr..
Bartlett was born up in that section Of
the country. He is native of New
Haven, Conn. He had ideas of what a
farmer ought to be when he gave up
his business there and decided to so
into farming here.
He chose this spot in the Mesilla val
ley and he brought ideas with him
They were not the ideas of the ordinary
farmer, for he is not an ordinary farm
er. He is not a farmer by inheritance
but by choice, because he likes it
Puts Up Modern Fence.
He built a woven wire fence two
miles long around his place \ wear
ago he found that the fence posts of
wood had rotted in two years He took
them up but, instead OF replacing them
with wooden ones, ne bought steel. He
now has half a mile of steel posts IS
feet apart Besides, he paid from So to
81 for the corner posts. He has not
tom back east, but he has tould that
they will stay in the ground II years
without showing wear. He NAV cor
crete them in later.
100 acres of his property in cuItiVa-
ton. having a small orchard IN one end
Of it There are so acres that he Sill
has to cultivate, but he will ge- to that
before long.
Has Modern Home.
But, it is his home that attracts more
attention than anything else about the !
place, for alfalfa fields are common I
in that section while homes like his are
not He built an adobe bungalow and !
plastered it on the exterior. He plas- |
tered all of the rooms on the inside and |
built cobblestone fire place
The porch floor is cemented and I
small strips of hardwood make the !
ceiling most attractive. The small /
windows, with their crossed grains |
through and small panes, give the place i
all city conveniences. It has plumbing
throughout and a bath tub like they 4
have in city homes. There is also a \
refrigerating plant, such as is fund |!
a cool air proposition and keeps things I
fresh. He brought furniture down frCm I
New England and he can SIT or the |
front porch of an evening look out |
through the pretty vines that cluster 1
about the front of the porch, and. with /
his eyes rested by the green grass of \
his lawn in front OF his home, and the /
waving fields of alfalfa in the distance, /
feel happy that he has the New Egg I
land home and the New Mexico sur !
shine.
The KnOeker Present.
There is a knocker on his front door.
1t is always outside the house for, 1
he says, no knockers enter that home. |
He brought that from Philadelphia, and |
it is so old that VIM. PENIS statue on 4
top of the city hall building there
whence it came It is artistic
and adds but one more touch to the |
air of home and refinement
1t was with reluctance that the party
left here to proceed on toward FL Paso
and the humdrum city life. However.
the way was pleasant and the fields
were green A stop was made for
at the home of n. Van Gass,
who was chief of scouts for Kronje,
the famous Boer- general, during the /
BOer war. His place at Chamberino was 1
Just two miles distant from the home
Of Mr.. Bartlett Mark B. Thompson's
ranch of 1913 acres, all inv alfalfa, adj
oins Van Gass's 16O-acre t-aet, wnicn
S also practically all under culti-
7ation.
From here the party proceeded along
he valley, past field after field of pur-
Die topped alfalfa and pretty rows of
corn. to BerinO, across the bridge and
)n toward home No rain hit them all
the way but some had fallen at various
spots between Anthony and CanutillO.