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<br />Present Practices <br />The principal crops, srain, alfalfa, and grs8sas, <br />are, moreover, such as are the safest gamble with a limited <br /> <br />water supply. Grein is apt to ba meturad before the end of <br /> <br /> <br />the nood, while the forllge crops yield something if the <br /> <br />flood lusto ~ell into June, evsn if there is little or no <br />water aftarward. These crops are 61.S% of the total lands <br />end 97% of the lend Il.Ctively fermed. Ordinarily at an eltitude <br />ot 7,000 teet, when water is sutficJ.ent for bu.t one cut- <br />ting ot alfalfa, gress hey will be preferrad to aUalle, but <br />in th111 instance one cutting of alfelio seems to be more <br />valuable then e, 8bort crop o,f graBS hay. <br /> <br />Possible New CroDS <br />The greeter part of the projeot lands 11111 probebly <br />slT/aye be fQrllllld primarily, if not principally,' to previde <br /> <br />hay end grain for winter feed for livestock ranged on the <br />Montezuma National Forest (Mencos watershed) 1m summer, and <br /> <br />such use will be a splendid b~als for 0 proper rotation to <br /> <br />::g <br />W <br />C) <br /> <br />preserve tho fertility of the lend, but the altitude of the <br /> <br /> <br />project 1s suitable for certain very rpofltoble cosh crope <br /> <br />which cannot, however, be r1l16ed without II rel1eble le.te water <br />supply. Late potatoes are moat successfully roieed iD Colorado <br />at Just this eltitude, lmd in 1936 the e:uBll potato crop of <br />the project waG very pTof1t&ble, elthoi.lgh the y10ld WIlS only <br /> <br />fair. <br /> <br />18 <br />