New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-11-09
Ell PASO HERALD
SAYS THE STATE
is PROSPEROUS
POINTS OUT
SHEEP, WOOL, BEANS,
WHEAT AND OATS ARE
CREATING WEALTH.; AND
SERVING COUNTRY

The importance of New Mexico's
sheep industry is now forcibly
brought to the attention of the pub
lie. The wool production is enough
to provide uniforms for an army OF
American soldiers or clothes for sew
eral million civilians. The wool crop
this year for the state of New Mex
leo is given by the Monthly Crop
Reporter of the United States de-
partment Of agricultural as 100000
pounds. worth SO, 100000.
A fair part of the nation is being
fed on New Mexico mutton, too. for
the same report states that 2,O0O,-
600 60-nound lambs will be shipped
from the state within the next few
months. The wool crop and the lamb
crop, if not record breaking, are very
near it. The prices do break all rec
ords. They are contributing to the
of millionaires on the New
Mexico sheep ranges. The price of
wool this wear is conservatively fig
ured at 45 cents a pound, lacking
inst one zen of being double that
of last year. Similarly. lambs are
at S'4 ~er hundred pounds
as against 800 last year. How these
are to he regarded depends
the point of view, whether n
be the producer or the consumer, New
Mcvico Growers must consider them
worderful'v encouraging and accord
be tempted to increase their
t. the very limit of the feed
ING caDacitv of their RANGES. The
will say that If anvone is
to .tcrcfit hv reason of prices ex-
orbit7ntly high, he will be glad il his
New Mexico n~cighbors are the bene-
ririarics.
Not alone in wool and lambs is
New McNico making millions this
year. nor in beans, which crop, as
WIS pointed out several DAVIS aro,
will he worth inward Of $GOOUn
his wear. depending on the price per
1ornd at which the majority of
,rowcrs sell. The states corn yield
his wear is 3.587.OOO bushels worth
d 215O 900, The wheat crop is about
G0OW bushels above the ten wear
,verare. It is given by the Crop
Reporter at 2.214OOO bushels. worth
'i.317,300. Incidentally. had the crop
greater by $4,000 bushels the
would have been self support
np, so far as wheat and wheat pro-
are concerned. 1t would have
.aiSed all it requires, including seed
The oats crop this wear is 2,143.OO0
worth 81 .414,3S0 and potatoes
,5l1 600 bushels valued at S 3So9,777.
The Crop Reporter places the aver
ec price of hay at $3.50 a ton. at
price the 1917 hay crop for
Icw Mexico will be worth about
100000. If anything. the Crop Re-
hay price is too low. Twenty
dollars a ton would be nearer
he average figure and many south.
growers are holding for $50.
fowever, one Of the good features
f the department Of agriculture is
hat it almost never errs on the side
f evaeperation and even the ST.
10000 total is eratifyingly large.
Practically all the crop figures
lentioncd above are very much
lrger than those of 1916. They
that, owing to a patriotic re-
VI tnS C'uItI , Hteu lOI
coupled with the certainty of
God financial returns. farmers
and tended their crops as
ever before. When figures on
,reage are available. they will show
'ot a great deal more land has
cen in cultivation this year than
'er before in the states history.
That does not show in published
ports, but is nevertheless very
is that in countless instances
took desperate chances I!
nancially, encumbering themselves J
the limit. in order to increase
cir paintings by securing more land {
Id seeding more acres. The fact [
at, as a whole. they have won out I
I'd made good money is a cause for !
'atification. 1t would have been I
serious for them had the crops
lied. But, in the final analysis, one I
the beauties of New Mexico agri- r
lture is that crops very seldom !
il. The farmer, who has a good \
zee of land and some water to wet =,
occasionally, can very nearly count \
his crop.-Editorial in FL Paso I
raid