POULTRY-RAISING 



The poultry business has its technical side, and one person may succeed in it where 



ny others will fail. There is much detail about it, some special knowledge required 

 the habits, diseases and characteristics of the domesticated feathered family, and the 

 icessful are those who make poultry-raising a study and the marketing of the eggs 

 and fowls a specialty. From the standpoint of poultry-raising in Nevada, the following 

 facts are important: First, that not enough poultry and eggs are produced to begin to 

 supply the home consumption; second, that the prices for both are higher than perhaps 

 anywhere else in the country; third, that the climatic and other conditions are as good 

 re as anywhere else, and lastly, that those who have in recent years gone into the busi- 

 in the right way appear to be making money. The homeseeker, looking for an 

 rtunity to go into poultry-raising will find Nevada as promising a field as any, to 

 say the least. 



NEVADA HONEY 



We have claimed hitherto in this booklet that Nevada is a state wonderfully adapted 

 to alfalfa; that the Nevada potato, if not the best grown in America, at least has no 

 superior, and now we are going to make the same claim for honey. 



Clear, white, translucent, with a flavor of alfalfa bloom and as delicious as fabled 

 nectar, if any other section of America produces better honey than this State, in Western 

 parlance, it has to go some! Let us investigate the reasons. We will not have to 

 prosecute the inquiry far. There are two, namely: The great stretches of alfalfa fields, 

 whose purple blossoms distil the sweets, and the cloudless sunshiny days during the 

 season when the bee gathers honey. There are no days when the worker has to lay 

 off and get a grouch on about the lowering weather. She can be up with the lark 

 between the time the first spring blossom comes on the hillside, the white sage appears, 

 and the apple trees begin to bloom, until the last belated blossom withers in the fall. 

 There is no rain or moisture in the flower to trouble and annoy her in getting at the 

 sweets. The busy bee earns her reputation in Nevada not only by the quantity which 

 she puts up but by its exquisite quality. 



Apiculture is an important industry in Nevada and is growing rapidly at the present 

 time, due to the introduction of Nevada honey in the Eastern markets and the attention 

 its fine quality has attracted. At the present time there are about 10,000 colonies, and 

 from the great extent of the honey flora there is room in the State for at least 1 00,000 

 colonies. 



CHAPTER VII 



Valleys, River Systems, Cities, Towns, and Agricultural Communities 



The river systems of the arid region largely determine the geography of the 

 agricultural sections. Along the rivers the pioneer farmers first settled and diverted the 

 waters for irrigation, following the lines, successively, of least resistance. In time, most 

 of the land capable of reclamation by local capital and enterprise was put under cultivation. 

 Now has begun the era of Government and Carey Act reclamation projects, the breaking 

 up of large ranches into small farms, and the beginning of intensive farming. 



THE HUMBOLDT RIVER SYSTEM 



The Humboldt River from the source of its longest tributary to the sink where its 

 waters are lost by evaporation, is nearly 1 ,000 miles in length. Its drainage area covers 

 13,800 square miles. About 175,000 acres of land along the river and its tributaries 

 are under cultivation. The upper valleys at the source of the river have an elevation 

 of approximately 6,000 feet, descending to about 5,000 feet at Elko, 4,500 at Battle 

 Mountain, 4,300 at Winnemucca and 4,000 at Lovelock. Some of the richest 

 farming districts of Nevada are along this river. Near Wells is the Pacific Reclamation 

 Company's Carey Act project which is opening up for settlement a 30,000-acre 

 tract of good land suitable for growing alfalfa, grain and general northern farm crops. 



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