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wheat would yield 250 bushels, at 60 cents per bushel, of $150. The al- 

 falfa would not yield any cash returns the first year. 



Financial Estimates. 



"Now let us sum up the matter and note the cost of putting in the 

 above crops and harvesting the same, and see how the accounts would 

 balance: Peas, hay, $625; peas, seed, $375; beans, seed, $125; tubers, 

 $500; roots, $625; barley, $400; macaroni wheat, $150; total, $2,900; 

 less expense putting in crop, $1,500, leaves $1,400; less expense market- 

 ing, $400; net. $1,000. 



"Or, put it this way: 



Livestock Results. 



"Say it took all the crop to carry the livestock and fit it for market, 

 the accounts would stand as follows: Ten cows produce 1,000 pounds 

 of butter at 40 cents per pound, $400; 10 calves, at $15 per head, $150; 

 10 sows produce two litters of five pigs each, making 100 head, weighing 

 at six months 150 pounds each, at 8 cents per pound, $1,200; 100 hens 

 produce eggs worth $250; raise 300 chicks worth $250; have lelft over for 

 next year, hay and grain, $650; total, $2,900; allowing for putting in and 

 harvesting crop, $1,500; total $1,400; allowing for looking after live- 

 stock, $400; net profit for the first year, $1,000. 



"Cut it in two if you like, and still it is not a bad showing for the 

 new settler on the bench lands of the semi-arid belt. 



Soil Treatment. 



"The first year and succeeding years should make better returns 

 as the wild nature of the soil is killed out and humus is added to the 

 land, which puts it in better shape to retain the moisture. The secret 

 of success the first season, howevr, lies in shallow plowing and imme- 

 diately rolling the sod, so as to form a sod mulch that serves to con- 

 serve the moisture and makes success possible the first year." 



NEW MEXICO. 



Mr. George A. Fleming, of Las Vegas, New Mexico, said: 

 "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conventioh — I bring you greet- 

 ings from New Mexico. New Mexico rs not largely represented, but the 

 few of us who are here are certainly full of enthusiasm and will imbibe 

 as much of the information to be imparted here as possible and carry it 

 home and spead it as broadly as possible. I had no expectation of 

 addressing you at all today. We were to have been represented here by 

 Col. R. E. Twitchell, of Las Vegas, New Mexico, who was secretary of 

 the Sixteenth Irrigation Congress, but who is as enthusiastic a dry 

 farmer as an irrigationist, and who has all the facts and figures of the 

 products and resources of New Mexico at his finger tips. Unfortunate- 

 ly, neither he or Governor Curry were able to be present. They both re- 

 gret this, and while they regret it, we regret it a great deal more. As 

 I say, I have not expected to make any remarks at all and after the 



