The Delta independent., 1886-11-16
RANCH AND RANCE.

The Farmers elevator has taken in 500
bushels of wheat of the crop of 1886 thus
far.-FOrt Collins Express.
Ed. Williams this week sold 50 head OF
fat hogs to Denver man for $3.50 per hun
dred on foot.-Eyans Journal.
Utah and Kansas potatoes are partial fail.
ures, and dealers are looking to the ColOra'
do market for supply. This means good
prices for the farmers who have good crops.
-Saguache Democrat.
Some twelve hundred steers were driven
down from Plateau this week to the winter
range on West Salt creek. They were the
property of the Grove Creek Ranch AssOcia'
ton, Harrison Brothers & Fulwider and
Needles & Co.-Grand Junction News.
There is no change in the local market
price for wheat to report this week, the
price paid remaining at 95 cents a hundretI
for the best grades. The eastern market Is
slowly gaining strength, and there is de-
cidedly better feeling among dealers.-Fort
Collins Express.
The oat crop of the State has this year
yielded thirty-fve bushels to the acre.
There has been as high as seventy-five and
eighty in some instances. So far as we
have been informed the greatest yield has
been in the San Luis valley and in La Plata
county.-Field and Farm.
Mace Slaughter has just turned loose ,0OO
head of she cattle at Monument Springs,
New Mexico. Two herds of 700 and 500 re-
spectively are laying up at Bright's Lake,
fifteen miles east of the American valley.
They are looking for ranches. Grass and
water are plentiful. and cattle are fat and
will winter well in that section.
The crop report from eastern Colorado,
out beyond irrigation, entirely staggers cal
culations where water had been the rule.
Forty bushels of corn and as many more
oats to the acre would not have been be-
lieyed II it had not been seen. The onward
march of settlement in Weld and Elber,
counties will be wonderful next season.
Field and Farm.
One of the partners in the Nonman-Per'
cheron horse breeding company Of this
State who invested forty thousand dollars
in the concern four years ago was offered
seventy-fiye thousand few days since, but
refused the offer with the remark: my in
terests in those horses and lands in Colora
do are to-day worth a hundred thousand
dollars If they are worth a dollar. Field
and Farm.
on two acres of land at the Windsor
Farm, the Messrs. Bush & Morse this fal
harvested seveny-eight tons of manglt
wurzel. They had been planted in drills
three feet apart. Mr.. Morse is confident hi
van grow sixty tons to the acre by planting
them little closer together. II is hi:
opinion he can grow this great feed plan
at a cost not TO exceed five dollars per ton
Field and Farm.
The State Auditor has completed his lis
of the tax valuations as returned by the as
SCISSORS of the various counties. and the tota
shows an increase OF about ten million dol
Lars. II takes only a glance over the table
TO show where the increase is. 1t is in the
agricultural counties, and the increase is on
the farms. II has been 30 year after year
and the people Of Colorado are awakening
TO the fact that il will pay to foster the agri-
cultural interestS.-Colorado Farmer.
Our attention was called this week 10 the
fact that fires are becoming very numerous
on the plains in this county, and something
should be done to protect what little grass
we have. for we haven't any more than is
needed in our business. One prominent
stockman informs us that he eNtinguished
three in one DAY recently. Fire notices have
been printed by the county commissioners
and are now being circulated throughout the
county warning campers against leaving
fires when breaking camp. Any person rio-
lating the law on this question will be pros
ccuted to the full extent of the law.-Las
Aninas Democrat.
Farming. gardening, poultry-raising fruit
growing. bee culture and butter making
may be said 10 be still in their infancy in
Southern Colorado, and yet they have ad
vanced sufficiently to be important to prom
Use great future development,and TO deserve
fostering. The breeding of fine stock is also
only fairly under way, but Colorado is moth
ing If not adapted to that. The altitude and
climate, like that of Montana, is especially
favorable for growing horses of great endur-
ance. The manufacturing and smelling in
dustries of Pueblo are conspicuous for their
magnitude, especially in iron and the pre-
cious metals. In view of the facts here out
lined, nothing could be more appropriate
than for this city and the counties tributary,
to join hands and organize q Southern Colo
RADIO Industrial association. The Subject has
been touched upon in these columns at in
tervals for year or more past. 1t Is now
being generally discussed among business
men. and a goodly number of influential cit
liens have spoken approvingly of it. The
organization ought to he accompGshedwith-
out delay, and ample time win then be had
for giving aneNhibition in the fall of next
year.-Pueblo Review and Standard.
The Governors Proclamation.