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THE CENTRAL RIO GRANDE VALLEY 



Mann Brothers Market Gardens, Albuquerque, Plant of the 

 American Lumber Company in .Distance 



Of fmni ^R nm7"^^lP'mn''^'' ^^''^'''' ^' Albuquerque have incomes 

 Lch hnl '? t 1 r f ^,^'^00 a year while two small farms of seven acres 

 each, both established less than three years ago, within f^ve miles of 

 Albuquerque, are now producing $2,000 net each, per year. The visitor 

 to this valley may, within a drive of three miles through the valley from 

 Albuquerque be shown farms of from 2y, to 10 acresfeach producing a 

 comfortable mcome. piuuuL.ui^^ a 



The climate of the Rio Grande Valley is ideal for the successful 

 growing of all f^eld and truck crops. The spring is early and sub e to 

 few severe changes of temperature, while the growing and matur ng of 

 crops is in no danger from killing frosts until November. ^ 



h.^r^Ki''''^ r^i ^^'' '^''".^^. '' "'^' ^"^ '° ^^^P ^s to be practically inex- 

 haustable, while it is being renewed and fertilized constantly by the 

 deposits of silt carried in suspension in the irrigation water, 'its com- 



niMATF AMn Qnil P°':^^°"/^ ^^°"^ ^dobe (soil which is very 

 ULMVIAIt AIMD SOIL sticky when wet and which bakes very hard 



Tfc .A .-KT. . • ^'i^''^" ^^^^ t° ^^^^' ^^^y ^oam and sandy loam. 



Its adaptibihty to practically all crops grown in the temperate zone has 

 been demonstrated. There are, however, a few exceptions and the 

 armer who is beginning in this valley should bear in mind that much 

 depends upon die care and judgment used in selecting his crops A 

 tew crops which while doing well in other sections are total failures 

 here, while crops which fail utterly elsewhere are among the most 

 va uable crops here. Irish potatoes do not do well in this valley and it is 

 only occasionally that a fair crop can be produced. Sweet potatoes on 



