Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the year ended June 30, 1897 . Irrigated Vineyard in New Mexico. TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. 481 1841 from the experiments of some French missionaries, and the Max-well land grant of nearly 2,000,000 acres was made by the MexicanGovernment to Carlos Beaubien and Guadalupe Miranda for the expresspurpose, among other things, of raising sugar beets. The results ofexperiments recently made show the product to be 20 tons per acre ofbeets carrying 19 per cent of sugar. With more careful culture andimproved varieties this yield can be considerably incre
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the year ended June 30, 1897 . Irrigated Vineyard in New Mexico. TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. 481 1841 from the experiments of some French missionaries, and the Max-well land grant of nearly 2,000,000 acres was made by the MexicanGovernment to Carlos Beaubien and Guadalupe Miranda for the expresspurpose, among other things, of raising sugar beets. The results ofexperiments recently made show the product to be 20 tons per acre ofbeets carrying 19 per cent of sugar. With more careful culture andimproved varieties this yield can be considerably increased. One great advantage this country possesses over most other localitiesis that the lands are near the foothills and the soil is constantly beingfertilized by the water used for irrigation, which carries in solution anddistributes over the land mineral matter washed down from the moun-tain sides and decayed vegetable matter from the mountain forests,and the land produces abundant crops without other fertilizing. In France, Germany, and other countries where sugar beets arer
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