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Colorado and New Mexico orchardists are exempt f rom all disaster f rom droug-ht suoh as diminishes the crops and profits of eastorn fruit g-rowers. In the far western arid country, where growers must depend wholly upon irrigaron íor moisture íor their orchards, tho expense of is compensated by tho good result that they can absolutely regúlate tho water supply the trees shall receive. The soil of the Rocky mountain slopes is peculiarly adapted for fruits, grapes and berries, and the pooplo oí those regions more and more are entering upon this branch of farming. ]n New Mexico orchards are being planted on a scale rivaling those of California, with the advantago that a finer quality of fruit eau be raisod to be sold in a much nearer tnarket. A schome is now under Tay to plant a 10,000-acre orchard in the Pecos valley, near Roswell, with the intention that 2,000 acres of trees shall be set out this f all. A Missouri flrm will plant 1,000 acres of land to apple trees this autumn in Chavey county, and in severa! places in that county the preparations for seitíng out hundreds of acres are being suade. The shipment of grapes to íhe aast from the upper and middle Rio Grande valleys has for years been an important and increasing iteca of railroad freight, and this fruit eommands a price usually a half highor 'han the California g-racaá.