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might be of interest, and even in this place 

 they are not altogether superfluous. The 

 chief objection to such details lies, of course, 

 in that question of accuracy. One success- 

 ful American grape -grower estimates that 

 each vine yields him on an average twenty- 

 five pounds of grapes. This is the Mission 

 grape, taken all in all the most satisfactory 

 grape to grow here. It was brought to the 

 territory several hundred years ago by 

 Spanish priests, and is certainly a delicious 

 grape, purple in colour and very juicy, 

 devoid of the solid flesh which makes some 

 high-priced varieties such uncomfortable eat- 

 ing. It ripens some time in August, is not 

 subject to disease, and when more widely 

 known, owing to improvement in transporta- 

 tion facilities our present bugbear should 

 command an immense market. Here comes 

 in, again, the need of co-operation co- 

 operation as it is practised in California and 

 elsewhere. It is easy enough to make fruit 

 grow in New Mexico ; to sell it to profit and 

 advantage, especially in the case of small or 

 moderate growers, is another matter. The 

 small grower, under present conditions, finds 



