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and is an ideal grain for hardening hogs. Sorghum is likewise a pro- 

 lific and an excellent forage crop, while the sugar beet makes a cheap 

 and excellent stock feed. 



It is safe to say that nowhere else in the United States, if indeed 

 in the world, does the sugar beet attain greater perfection than in the 

 Pecos Valley. The percentages of saccharine matter and purity run 

 astonishingly high while the yields surpass belief. Fifteen to eigh- 

 teen per cent, of saccharine matter, and a purity of 85 per cent. , are 

 by no means uncommon results; while as high as 59 tons of beets of 

 proper size for sugar manufacture have been grown on a single acre. 

 This was of course exceptional; but an average yield of from 25 to 30 

 tons per acre can be counted on with confidence. M. Alfred Musey, a 

 French beet- sugar expert of wide experience both in Europe and 

 America, recently visited the Pecos Valley, and gave this subject a 

 thorough investigation. He was astonished at what he saw, and 

 stated without hesitation that in his opinion beet sugar can be manu- 

 factured in the Pecos Valley with higher success than in any other 

 part of the United States. 



All the ordinary vegetables grow in abundance and find a ready 

 sale. Onions, sweet and Irish potatoes and pumpkins are fine crops, 

 onions being especially profitable. In melons, not even Georgia can 

 surpass this section. Celery and asparagus grow in the greatest lux- 

 uriance, being specialties in which the Valley excels. Bee raising is 

 likewise highly profitable, from the abundance of sweet alfalfa blos- 

 soms and the sunny climate. It needs only to be remembered that al- 

 falfa is a species of clover, and that in the Pecos Valley it is in bloom 

 during a considerable part of the year, to understand why the bee- 

 keepers of the Valley should derive a handsome revenue from the 

 product of their hives. Alfalfa honey is very white and of exception- 

 al flavor. 



Last but not least, poultry raising pays, as all farm -wives know. 

 Eggs always sell in New Mexico at from 25 cents to 35 cents per 

 dozen. The cow is also a good helper, for butter sells at from 35 to 

 50 cents per pound all over the Southwest. Both products have an 

 excellent home market. 



The town of Carlsbad is the center of the vast irrigated district on 

 the banks of the Pecos, and draws trade over a radius of 75 miles. It- 

 is a modern little city in every way, aud enjoys advantages and dis- 

 tinctions especially its own. Its altitude is 3,100 feet. It has, since 

 its first settlement twelve years ago, been known as Eddy, but the 

 growing reputation of the great mineral spring near the town has at- 

 tracted so many visitors and permanent residents to the place that 

 the town was re-named Carlsbad, as being more suggestive and ap- 

 propriate. Mrs. R. W. Tansill has had the honor of naming the city 

 Eddy, and also the rechristening of it to Carlsbad. 



Carlsbad is a growing, cosmopolitan, progressive city of twelve 



