7 HE IRRIGATION AGE. 



tion, cheap fuel and limestone, and an un- 

 limited extent of available land for beet 

 culture. It is expected that the same 

 company will erect one or more factories 

 in addition to the one at Rocky Ford, one 

 to be built further east and the other west 

 of Rocky Ford. 



"As an example of the quality of the 

 sugar beets produced upon this land, it 

 may be mentioned that so far six car-loads 

 of beets from one field have been tested 

 with results as follows: one car-load, 

 16 3-10 per cent; three car-loads, 188-10' 

 per cent; and two car-loads, 20 4-10 per 

 cent. 



Exports and Exports of American products 

 Imports to . 



Porto Rico. to Porto Rico in the nscal 



year just ended were, according to the 

 figures of the treasury bureau of statistics, 

 more than three times as great as they 

 averaged when Porto Rico was under the 

 Spanish flag and more than 50 per cent in 

 excess of those prior to the enactment of 

 the Porto Rican law which went into ef- 

 fect May 1, 1900. The total domestic 

 exports from the United States to Porto 

 Rico in the fiscal year 1897, which entire- 

 ly preceded the beginning of hostilities 

 with Spain, were $1.964,850. In the 

 fiscal year 1900, ten months of which pre- 

 ceded the date at which the Porto Rican 

 tariff want into effect, our domestic ex- 

 ports to Porto Rico were $4,260.892. In 

 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, all 

 of which was under the Porto Rican act 

 which levied 15 per cent of the regular 

 Dingley law rates on goods passing into 

 that island from this country, the total 

 domestic exports from the United States 

 to Porto Rico were $6.861.917. These 

 figures include only exports of domestic 

 merchandise and do not include foreign 

 merchandise brought into the United 

 States and re-exported to Porto Rico, 

 which probably amounted to about a half 

 million dollars, since the Porto Rican 

 statement qf imports from the United 



States for the fiscal year ending Juna 30, 

 1901, shows the grand total including 

 domestic and foreign to be $7,414,502. 



Porto Rico imported in the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1901, goods amounting to 

 $9.367,230 in value, and of this $7,4 14,502 

 came from the United States, the total 

 from other countries being $1,953,728. 

 Of this , $1,952,728 imported from other 

 countries other than the United States, 

 the value of $808,441 was from Spain; 

 $374.837 from the United Kingdom; 

 $294.067 from Canada; $166.823 from 

 France; $152,201 from Germany, and $61,- 

 838 from the Netherlands. 



The Date Palm Jt is known by very few 

 in America. even o f our we ]i posted fruit 



growers that the Date Palm is an estab- 

 lished success in tho United States. For 

 centuries past there has been an occasion- 

 al tree glowing in some of the wanner 

 parts of the country, especially in south- 

 ern California, Arizona and Florida, but 

 these trees have all been seedlings which 

 have mostly come up by accident or were 

 planted by some of the mission fathers 

 who emigrated for Spain, and many of 

 them have never borne any fruit to this 

 day. It is also known only by a few that 

 the date palm is a diaecious tree; that is, 

 the flowers of the two sexes being on sepa- 

 rate trees, it is absolutely necessary that 

 a female or bearing tree should have a 

 staminate tree growing near, or that male 

 flowers when in a proper condition should 

 be carried to the female tref\s and placed 

 where their pollen will fall upon the 

 stigmas of the bearing tree in order that 

 fruit should be produced. This fact has 

 been known for thousands of years by the 

 inhabitants of the arid regions in other 

 parts of the world where the dati j has been 

 grown very largely, and male trees are 

 kept purposely that their flowers may be 

 used in this way. This is a common prac- 

 tice among the Arabs and Budouins. 

 They also take advantage of this pecul- 



