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Title: The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration Frost, Max., 1873- , comp Walter, Paul A. F New Mexico. Board of managers for the Louisiana purchase exposition, 1904
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: Sante Fe, N.M., New Mexican printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lace 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 foothills of the mountains.Many farmers continue to grow tobacco of seeds from theoriginal plant, preferring it to Havana or any other variety.The cultivated plant is very similar to the native. The nativefarmers do not sow the seed in beds and transplant, but drillin rows. The plants are from live to five and a half feet highand have about forty leaves. They are small and resembleTurkish more than any other variety in growth and shape ofleaf. Eleven small beds were prepared in gardens in Bernalillocounty last year. Sumatra, Turkish, Havana, Connecticut,Virginia and Kentucky burley seed were sown and coveredwith glass. This was necessary, as it was late in the seasonand the plants had to be forced. If the beds had been sown
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 83 late in February or the early part of March, a covering of can-vass or cheese-cloth would have been sufficient. Suitablelands were selected for the experiment. The first transplant-ing work was done on May 26 and finished July 10. The cropgrew nicely and gave a fine yield of superior quality, withpoints in favor of Kentucky hurley and Turkish. Tobacco of all varieties will grow well and has an unusuallyfine flavor and aroma. Several acres of Sumatra have beenplanted between rows of Kafiir corn six feet apart. It wasshown by this experiment that the corn gave sufficient shadeto the plants to ipake a very fine leaf, and that the great ex-pense of covering the field with canvass is not necessary. Cotton. Cotton is raised successfully in Eddy county. A cotton ginhas been erected at Carlsbad. Cotton is also grown on a smallscale in Chaves, Roosevelt and Quay counties. Two thousandacres were under cultivation in Eddy county during the 1904season. The Soil. The soil

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