The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . ciently low to permit theproper development of the beet, and where sufficient waterfor irrigation can be secured, there is good reason to believethat the industry may be estabUshed and prove to be profit-able. While the summer days of New Mexico are not so longby an hour or more as in the regions farther north, the amountof sunshine which the growing beets wiU receive, is practi-cally as great as in more northern locahties, because of thecomparative absence of cloudy and rainy days. The same sci
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . ciently low to permit theproper development of the beet, and where sufficient waterfor irrigation can be secured, there is good reason to believethat the industry may be estabUshed and prove to be profit-able. While the summer days of New Mexico are not so longby an hour or more as in the regions farther north, the amountof sunshine which the growing beets wiU receive, is practi-cally as great as in more northern locahties, because of thecomparative absence of cloudy and rainy days. The same scientist tabulates analyses of sugar beets grownin the different states and territories. It will be seen thatNew Mexico grown sugar beets have a higher percentage ofsugar than those of any state which at that time had sugarfactories in operation. It will also be observed that the per-centage of purity of juice from New Mexico is very high. The following table gives the sugar contents and purity ofjuice in New Mexico beets and beets from other states inwhich beet sugar factories have been located:. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 81 o^ ^ Sugar in beet. Purity in juice. ^^^^®- Per cent. Per cent. Michigan California Colorado Utah Nebraska New York 15. Oregon (a) (a) Washington Wisconsin Ohio Minnesota 11. New Mexico 82. (a) Results not given in table. It is estimated that the people of New Mexico consumed15,750,000 pounds of sugar last year. Not one pound of thissugar was manufactured in the Territory, notwithstandingthe fact that natural conditions are better suited to sugarbeet growth and beet sugar manufacture than almost anyother place in the United States, and possibly in the world. Tobacco. Tobacco has been cultivated in New Mexico for hundredsof years. It is more than likely that tobacco originated hereand found its way into other countries. Wild tobacco, calledpuncha, grows all along the foothi
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