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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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fl e.rowth of high grade sugar beets. In nearly all localities^here good beets can be grown there may also be found fuc ,hmestone, and water of good quality, as well as cheap laboIn the face of these facts, it seems that New Mexico shouldsoon have sugar factories. . „, ,,,„ t„ t„nt Conditions are very similar to those in Colorado. In fact,in some respects superior, for both labor and land are cheapei.No doubt when it becomes known that New Mexico is evenbetter suited than Colorado for both the growing of beets andthe manufacture of sugar, capital will develop this industiya it has others of this Territory. New Mexico laws exemptall sugar factories from taxation for a period of six years The United States Department of Agriculture, through a series of experiments for a number of years, has proven con- clustvely that a mean temperature for the months of June, July and August, of about 70 degrees is the ideal t«»perature or the growing of beets of high saccharine contents. The
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COURT HOUSE OF MORA COUNTY AT MORA. THE LAND OP SUNSHINE. 79 isothermal sugar zone, or that belt of the United States bestadapted to the growth of sugar beets, has been carefullymapped by Dr. H. W. Wiley, chemist of the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture. It extends east and west acrossthe United States, and embraces that portion having a meansummer temperature between 69 degrees and 71 degreesFahrenheit. Entering the northern boundary of Colorado, itpasses through the entire state and into New Mexico whereit forms a loop in the extreme southern part of the Territorysomewhere north of and near Las Cruces, and passes upwardagain and out in the extreme northwestern part. With theexception of the lower Pecos and Mesilla Valleys, the entireagricultural part of New Mexico has the proper chmatic con-ditions for the cultivation of sugar beets. Beets grown in NewMexico when fully matured, have shown a high sugar content.Doctor Wiley, who is undoubtedly the principal authority onsugar beet

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