Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1916-06-08
LOCAL MATTERS
OF INTEREST

Rev. N. w. Bard has put up
neat garage on the church lots
Fine Clothes. For an up-te
date suit, and guaranteed fit
see S. N. Jenson.
For sale, 16O acres decide,
land, 6 miles west of Stanley, N
M. Write Box 26, Alamogordo
N. M.
A. L. McCaffree has made
long jump. He writes to hav,
his address changed from Luc.
to Rex. Oregon.
New 4-inch pump outfit for tn,
price of a 3-inch, and a windmill
tower and 21 head of goats fol
sale.-A. w. Lyttle, Estancia
N. Mex.
Mrs. Marguerite Hall came
last Saturday from Ell Paso for &
visit with her parents, Mr.. ano
Mrs. l.. D. Roberts and other
relatives and friends.
A. j. Green was up above Las
Vegas in the vicinity of Watrous
last week looking at a bunch of
cattle. He says there is a short.
age of moisture in that country.
Grass is drying up and range cat
flo orn 1oDl/;oo. Lol
Baptist Aid Society will give a
Box supper at the Library room
Tuesday evening. June 18th.
81 90 a box. Also ice tea and
lemonade 5 cents a glass. Music
and recitations. For the benefit
of the church.
j. B. Woods came up from So
corro the latter part of last week
and went out to the Pedernals to
work on his mining claims. He
has leased some of his claims to
Boston people who are to begin
development work in sixty days
One new Melotte cream separ-
ator 700 pounds per hour capaci-
ty, one good 8-year- old work
horse, one good saddle pony, gen.
tile and will work; all for sale, or
will trade one or all for young
cattle.-Wm. Winkel, Encino, N.
M.
E. G. Barnes, who is farming
ground not cultivated for mum.
ber of years on his claim north
west of Mcintosh, is having
trouble with cutworms. He has
replanted, in the hope that the
worms will be gone by the time
the second planting comes on.
H. F. Matthews had six acres
of corn destroyed by cut worms
on ground where there was a
crop of barley last year. They
overfiowed and destroyed the
corn on strip adjoining, amount
ing to an acre or two. They
have not damaged crops on the
balance of his fields.
The school board of Estancia
held a meeting last Saturday for
the election of teachers, but only
two teachers were elected-Mrs.
Parrett for the primary grades,
and Mrs. Grimmell for the next
grades. No time has been fixed
for a meeting to elect teachers
for the remaining grades.
The New Mexico section of the
government weather report for
April is out. On account of our
May day snow, and a consider
able snow in the mountains May
10Th, the April report does not
complete the snowfall record for
the winter, but it will be of in
terest to readers to know what it
was up to the first of May. From
December 1st to May 1st the
record at the different stations in
the county totaled as follows:
Torrance 405 inches; Willard
38.1; Estancia 55.1: Bigger's
Ranch (near Moriarty) AIS;
Rea's Ranch Ton Bosque Noun
tain) 1888. The snow of May
1st makes the record at Estancia
from December 1st to June 1st
81 inches. and the snow of May
1st and 10Th will make the record
in the mountains about 210
inches.
G. C. Merrifeld is very much
pleased with rye as a forage crop.
Last year he had field of rye
which be had pastured pretty
hard and he thought it would not
make much of a grain crop, so
he cut it when in bloom and
made hay of it. He says he
never had better feed. He has
fifteen acres of fall wheat which
has done well up to this time,
but it now needs rain. There is
plenty of moisture in the ground
Int the wheat roots do not go
down far enough to get it. He
has had stand of corn taken by
cut worms on ground that was
in oats last year, while the
worms have done no material
damage elsewhere in his fields.
Mr.. Merrifield is farming heavily
this wear. He will have eighty
or ninety acres of beans and
about seventy acres of other