El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-06-24
CEMENT SILOS, GRAVELED ROADS,
BEST CATTLE; PRISONERS To HELP
County Now Building New Quarters For Paupers
and Will Have Quarters or Prisoners; Experiments
Being Carried On That Are Of Wide Interest To
Farmers of Valley; Hundreds of New Plants

four retained on the farm TO supply
the patients and attendants there They
are all high grade milk animals, the
best mixer giving eight gallons day,
the next best six gallons In prices
paid for the cows. the commissioners
did not pay as much money as many
private individuals have paid for sim
liar cows for their valley ranches W
l. Tooley, c y Bassett and several
others have paid more for the same
kind Of cows than the commissioners
paid for these.
A visit to the farm is very interest
ing The experiments being carried
forward under Mr.. ROllo's direction are
not only interesting. but remarkable
in many cases Potatoes growing at
the roots Of sunflowers; potatoes az
the roots OF plants that resemble the
elephant ear lily Of the average front
yard: plant that looks like lettuce
and tastes like celery; another that
looks like a cabbage and tastes like
he is producing by means Of hybridi-
zation.
Year Old Grapes Bearing.
one Of the most interesting features
Of the farm is the orchard ard vine
yard. The grape vines were only put
young grapes upon them
The orchard consists OF pears.
peaches, plums and cherries, and all
the trees are growing exceptionally
4
some very fine onions-big white
ones and big red Ones-are growing in
a part OF the garden. Wax beans. fri
4, jOles climbing beans, English peas
beets, cabbage. lettuce, okra, tomatoes
and all the standard garden vegetables
are growing fine The snap beans the
! beets. the lettuce and the English
peas are now furnishing the table OF
/ the poor farm and some are being
| brought in for the hospital The onion
1 and tomatoes will soon be supplying
T, all that is needed and more
Regular black Eastv Rhubarb.
Pieplant, the only plant Of the kind
I grown in the valley. is thriving on the
| farm. and rhubarb pies for the inmates
, are not infrequently served
! One Of the features Of the farm Is
I the experiment with peanuts. Five
: senting over 100 varieties Mr.. ROllO
I viii select from these those varieties
/ best adapted to the valley conditions.
I and the commissioners viii distr1 butte
/ the growing OF peanuts in the valley
One OF the things in which Mr. ROllo
] takes great stock is a hybrldiZation ne
l has perfected between sugar cane and
root on the farm last Sunday showed
Z Is stalks The plant, he claims, has
/ all the hardness Of the Johnson grass.
! vet retains the sugar qualities OF the
! do not affect the soil like johnson
/ grass He claims he can XIII johnson
/ grass with this hybrid and thinks II Is
7 going TO prove one Of the finest forage
! crops in the valley
SunfO1vers as stock Food.
Some white Russian suuflowers form
/ another crop in which Mr.. RollO takes
| great stock as a future valley product
! Of much value. These are recommend
ed highly for silage and they are to
I be tested this year in the silos on the
| county farm Several other varieties
Of Russian sunflowers are being grown,
| some OF them heading out into heads
! that are as much as 20 inches across
1 the top, according 10 Mr.. Rollo. The
| seed Of these sunflowers are said TO
/ be as good for cattle as grain. The
I stalks and leaves form excellent silage,
/ experiments have shown
Artichokes are another crop which
1 is being given a test They are grow
| ing splendidly. Artichokes as a val
| 10 the valley. as they never sell at
/ retail for less than Is cents apiece,
and none have been grown here before.
| Sugar beets are given quite space
! on the experiment farm and some OF
! them are already large enough to
weigh over a pound Mr.. Rollo is shown
1 in the accompanying pictures holding
/ one OF these beets, standing out in the
/ beet patch
Potatoes Look Like Lilies.
! japanese potatoes, which have a foli-
1 age looking very much like elephant
I ear lilies, are growing successful Some
| japanese sugar cane, said to be higher
! in sugar content than any other cane
| grown, IS also growing splendidly.
/ Belgian field carrots are another
| crop that are proving themselves
adapted to this climate.
Australian lemonade plant is being
! given test The fruit looks like oSra.
/ but IS red and takes the place OF lem
I ons IN cooking and lemonade making. It