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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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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:
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 81 o^ ^ Sugar in beet. Purity in juice. ^^^^®- Per cent. Per cent. Michigan 14.7 81.1 California 16.8 Colorado 13.6 76.6 Utah 14.3 81.1 Nebraska 12.9 76.9 New York 15. 82.4 Oregon (a) (a) Washington 13.7 80.7 Wisconsin 15.8 83.3 Ohio 13.8 79.1 Minnesota 11. 79.2 New Mexico 17.2 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 foothills of the mountains.Many farmers continue to grow tobacco of seeds from theoriginal plant, preferri

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