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| Keywords: El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. The staple crops in El Cerrito are corn, beans and alfal . . . - NARA - 521199.jpg 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 This is the dam in the Pecos where the main ditch or madre acequia takes off from the river No one knows how long this irrigation system was set up Some think that it was first built by the Indians who lived in the valley long before El Cerrito existed The dam and ditch are the basis and heart of agriculture here Without them there could be no crop The dam itself is an impermanent affair and must be carefully repaired at regular intervals by the people of the village The ditch which begins here follows the river but rises gradually until at the village two miles below it is many feet above the level of the river The maintenance and care of the madre acequia and its tributaries is a communal affair carried out by a highly integrated and efficient organization under the direction of an elected mayordomo or ditch boss Everyone taps the ditch when he needs water and takes as much as he needs General notes 521199 Local identifier 83-G-37847 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-37847 Other versions <gallery> File El_Cerrito _San_Miguel_County _New_Mexico _The_staple_crops_in_El_Cerrito_are_corn _beans_and_alfal_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521199 tif tif File El_Cerrito _San_Miguel_County _New_Mexico _The_staple_crops_in_El_Cerrito_are_corn _beans_and_alfal_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_521199 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Irving Rusinow El Cerrito New Mexico | ||||
