The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . s seventy to one hundredbushels; corn forty to sixty bushels; barley sixty to eighty-five bushels; w^heat thirty to forty-five bushels; alfalfa threeto five tons; potatoes 300 to 500 bushels; sweet potatoes 600 to1,000 bushels; cotton one bale: tobacco 1,000 pounds; canaigreroot two to three tons; onions 500 bushels; sugar beets six-teen to twenty-two tons, yielding from sixteen to twenty-twoper cent, saccharine matter; Mission grapes 12,744 pounds,making 910 gallons of wine. One acre of asparag
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . s seventy to one hundredbushels; corn forty to sixty bushels; barley sixty to eighty-five bushels; w^heat thirty to forty-five bushels; alfalfa threeto five tons; potatoes 300 to 500 bushels; sweet potatoes 600 to1,000 bushels; cotton one bale: tobacco 1,000 pounds; canaigreroot two to three tons; onions 500 bushels; sugar beets six-teen to twenty-two tons, yielding from sixteen to twenty-twoper cent, saccharine matter; Mission grapes 12,744 pounds,making 910 gallons of wine. One acre of asparagus from thethird year yields 200 pounds a day for sixty days each Eddy county the average return for each acre of sugarbeets was $67 and the average cost to the farmer $22. Beesaverage sixty-five pounds each year per hive, although as highas 196 pounds per hive have been realized at Artesia, Eddycounty. The average profit per colony per year is $10. Inyears of ample rainfall an immense amount of gramma grassis harvested on the public range, an acre yielding from two tothree tons of mmmmismMm^ THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 89 How to Secure a Homestead. There are 52,000,000 acres of unappropriated public landin New Mexico. Agricultural public land is subject to entryonly under the homestead and desert land laws. Thehomestead laws of the United States secure to qualified per-sons the right to settle upon, enter, and acquire title to 160acres of public land by establishing and maintaining resi-dence thereon and improving and cultivating the same for acontinuous period of five years. A homestead entryman mustbe the head of a family or over twenty-one years of age and acitizen of the United States or one who has declared his or herintention of becoming such, and he or she must not be theowner of more than 160 acres of land in any state or wife who has been divorced from her husband or desertedby him can make homestead entry. Payment of $16 fees andcommissions must b
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