The Delta independent., 1886-11-23
RANCH AND RANGE.

Eggs are worth 35 cents dozen in the
Denver market.
Most of the hogs butchered in Denver are
shipped in from Nebraska.
Immense quantities of poultry are being
shipped into the State from Kansas and Ne
braska.
The late snow storms drifted to such an
extent as not to seriously interfere with the
feed on the range.
The next season will witness the largest
influx of farmers to the State that has ever
occurred in its history.
Business at the Union Stock Yards at
Denver is steadffy increasing. Farmers in
search of feeders always find there large
supply.
On Monday last Jno. W. Manley shipped
9, 125 lbs. of broom corn, of his own raising,
to Trinidad. Colo. 1t is of excellent quality.
La Junta Tribune.
Eggs and poultry command better price
in the cities and mining camps of Colorado,
take it the year round, than in any other
place in the United States.
Monte Blivins, of Fort Collins. recently
drove bunch of over 800 beef cattle from
North park for shipment to eastern markets,
and will shortly gather another bunch for
the same purpose.
Good milch cows are to-day selling for a
hundred and twenty-five dollars each in
Leadville. A poor cow is worth scarcely
nothing at all in the carbonate camp.
Where it costs eighty and ninety cents a
day to feed a COW she must necessarily be a
good one to pay.
While band of 400 steers was being
driven from Bruneau, Idaho, to Halleck, a
disease broke out among the cattle which
made them blind. the eyes frequently run
ming ont. and 200 of them were abandoned
at Hendricks creek.
The project of starting buffalo ranches
seems an entirely feasible one. Their robes
alone would be worth more than an ordin-
ary steer, and good buffalo head always
| commands ready sale, while their flesh is
preferred by many to beef
Six hundred and fifty cars of cattle have
| been loaded and taken east from Kit Car
son, on the line of the Kansas Pacific the
present fall. Many of these cattle had been
driven from ranges near the line of the At
Gibson, Topeka and Santa Ee.
Every sheep owner in the State-unless il
be few in the southwest-is amply pre-
pared to feed his flocks this coming winter.
| The larger number of them will have grain.
Past experience has convinced every one
| that to starve a sheep is poor policy.-Field
and Farm.
The average yield for wheat in Great
Britain is .9Ii bushels per acre. The United
States produces an average of less than l.
bushels per acre, Colorado not more than 20
bushels. England has by thorough cultiva-
ton brought the acreage up from II bushels
to the above figures.
The present cold weather is very unusual
for Colorado at this time of the year. Sleigh
ing the middle of November in Denver is
something we have not seen in the pas,
twelve years. This heavy fall of snow in
sures us plenty of water next year for irri-
cation, for 1t is the early SHOWS in the
mountains that last and melt late in the
spring and summer.-Colorado Farmer.
The November report of the Department
of agriculture showing the average pros
poets of yield at the end of October raises
its previous estimates of the corn yield and
lowers those of cotton. The yield of corn is
estimated at !. .6Ss 600, 600 bushels, which is a
full average, and. though about SO. 600 900
bushels smaller than the crop of lSS5, has
been surpassed but once.
Mr.. McCann, whose ranch is on the Rio
,rnY nj Siy miles ahny.. naI Narfn fla
Prospector says, recently sold to c. II.
Woodruff, of San Juan. twenty-five head of
extra two-year-old heifers at Sa7 per head.
While the stock is better than the average,
the price paid is considered high, every
| thing estimated. Mr.. McCann also recent
| ly sold fine Jersey COW to Mrs. Isaac
White, of Del Norte, for so.
A party consisting of eighteen families
| from the neighborhood of North Bend. Neb.,
were recently located near Pawnee creek by
Ebbs 4 TAYLOR. Two of these families. those
| of Ole yelling and VIM. Bhuel. arrived
here Wednesday with their household
goods and are preparing to settle perman-
entity on their claims. The rest will all fol-
low and take up their homes on their claims
between this and sprng.-Sterling News.
Mr.. Morse. of the Windsor farm, is thus
quoted in the Field and Farm: Il can
grow feed enough on three acres of ground
in this country to winter nicely fifteen head
of cattle. would plant two of them to al
falfa and one to mangel wurzel, and from
the three would harvest forty-five tons of
feed-tnirty- y-tive of wurzel and ten of hay.
Judiciously fed, with good shelter and care
this would keep them fat from December
until June
Every farmer in Colorado who can have a
pond or lake should have German carp. 1t
is the cheapest food possible to be produced.
1t need not cost the sixteenth part of cent
pound. The annual distribution of carp
by the United States fish commissioners
will take place this month. All those who
desire a supply to stock pond should ad-
dress General John Pierce, of this city. for
information. Fish are free in Washington,
applicant paying express charges from there
to point of delivery. Application can be
made to the commissioner. Parties making
application will be notified when applica-