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| Keywords: El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. The staple crops in El Cerrito are corn, beans and alfal . . . - NARA - 521210.tif Scope and content Full caption reads as follows El Cerrito San Miguel County New Mexico The staple crops in El Cerrito are corn beans and alfalfa Almost everything is grown on irrigated land although there are a few fields on the mesa where a certain amount of dry farming is carried on Most of the corn is of the native blue type which was first grown here by the Indians Some of the other types of corn are fed to stock but never the blue Alfalfa produces more feed per acre than any other plant and for this reason more than half the irrigated land is devoted to this crop There is little commercial farming in the village A few sacks of beans or bushels of peaches are sold each year and two families have small flocks of sheep which brings in a little money - but for the most part the emphasis here is on subsistence farming Food is produced for home consumption Even the livestock economy is at the subsistence level with each family owning one or two horses a cow or steer eight or ten chickens and perhaps a pig Money when there is any comes from outside work There are few head of livestock in the valley and little manure This man puts what he has on the land When there was plenty of land and the men could always find jobs outside conservation was unheard of Now people are doing all they can to conserve what land they still own because they must depend on it for most of their living General notes 521210 Local identifier 83-G-37858 Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics Division of Economic Information ca 1922 - ca 1953 NARA-Author Rusinow Irving Photographer 5307166 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1941 04 10 - 1941 04 16 Record group Record Group 83 Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics 1876 - 1959 Record group ARC 412 Photographic Prints Documenting Programs and Activities of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Predecessor Agencies compiled ca 1922 - ca 1947 documenting the period ca 1911 - ca 1947 Series ARC 521048 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-83-G-37858 yes Other versions <gallery> File El_Cerrito _San_Miguel_County _New_Mexico _The_staple_crops_in_El_Cerrito_are_corn _beans_and_alfal_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521210 tif tif File El_Cerrito _San_Miguel_County _New_Mexico _The_staple_crops_in_El_Cerrito_are_corn _beans_and_alfal_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521210 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Irving Rusinow Manure El Cerrito New Mexico NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs | ||||