El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-05
NEW MEXICO 1917 WOOL WOULD
MAKE UNIFORMS FOR AN ARMY
H H

HE importance Of New Mezico's sheep industry now
forciby brought to the attention Of the public The
wool production enough provide uniforms for an
army Of American soldiers clothes for several million
civilians The wool crop this year for the state Of New
Mexico is given by the Monthly Crop Reporter Of the
United States department OF agriculture as 100000
pounds worth 100000.
fair part of the nation is being fed New Mexico
mutton too for the report states that 100000 60
pound lambs viii shipped from the state within the next
months The wool crop and the lamb crop, not rec
ord breaking very It. The prices do break all
records They contributing to the making Of million
aires the New Mexico sheep ranges The price OF WOOL
this year is conservavey figured at IS cents pound,
lacking Just cent Of being double that Of last year SINH
larly lambs quoted at s14 per hundred pounds as
against $3.50 last year How these prices are to be re
gaTded depends the point Of view whether one be the
producer the consumer. New Mexico growers must
consider them wonderfully encouraging and accordingly be
tempted 10 increase their HOOKS to the very limit OF the
feeding capacity Of their ranges The VIII say
that # anyone is to benefit by prices exOrbanty
high, he viii be glad his New Mexico neighbors are the
beneficiaTies.
Not alone in wool and lambs is New Mexico making mil
lions this year. beans which crop, pointed out
several days ago. viii be worth upward Of 100000 this
year. depending the price per pound at which the ma
ortv Of growers sell The states corn Weld this year
35s700O bushels worth S5sf5OOO The wheat crop is about
100000 bushels above the ten year average It IS given BY
the Crop Reporter 22140O0 bushels, worth S3t73oo
Incidentally had the crop been greater by $4,000 bushels
the state would have been self supporting far wheat
and wheat products concerned It would have raised
all it requires including seed wheat
The oats crop this year is 2,143,O00 bushels worth
S44S6O and potatoes $4,000 bushels valued at $685.
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The Crop Reporter places the average price Of hay at
$3.50 ton, at which price the 1917 hay for New
Mexico VIII be worth about 100000 If anything the
Crop Reporters hay price is too low. Twenty-Five dollars
ton would be the average figure and many south
western growers holding for $50. However Of the
good features Of the department Of agriculture that
almost the side Of exaggeraton the
100000 total is gratfyingly large
Practically all the crop figures mentioned above
very much larger than those Of 1916 They mean that
owing to patriotic realization Of the countrs need for
crops coupled with the certainty Of good financial returns
farmers planted and tended their crops as before
When figures acreage available, they viii show that
great deal land has been in cultivation this year
than before IN the states history What does
N published reports but IS nevertheless very tue that
II countless instances farmers took desperate chances nan
ay, encumberng themselves TO the limit in order
crease their paintings by securing land and seeding
more acres The fact that, whole, they have out
and made good money is for qualification It
would have been most serious for them had the crops failed
But IN the final analysis Of the beauties Of New Mex
leo agriculture Is that crops very seldom fail The farmer
who has good piece Of land and to wet It
occasionally, can very nearly count his crop.