The Delta independent., 1888-07-24
RANCH and Range.

cate owns between 1000 and 5000 head of
cattle, and its ranches embrace about 1000
acres, extending from Rifle to Roam creek
in Garfield county, Colorado.
In recent ride through Conejos county
we observed extensive fields of peas grow
ing and now in full bloom and looking
most beautifully. 1t was the best grain
crop we saw in the valley. Upon inquiry
we learned that our Castillian friends In
Conejos have small variety of dwarf peas
which they plant broadcast and harrow In.
The efforts OF the ranchmen to raise fruit
in the Roaring Fork valley are being
crowned with success. Strawberries and
other small fruits have fully matured,
while apple, plum and cherry trees are
thriving well. Orchards with from 800 to a
1000 trees will be common sight over
there in n few years.
Farmer Wier claims that he has demon
strated by experiment that alfalfa irrigated
five or six days before the cutting will not
shed its leaves SO rapidly as the non-irri-
gated plant. He claims that the irrigation
gives the plant fresh start and causes the
leaf to adhere 10 the stem and renders 1t
1903 bIltbIOs uC oukkCobAUh 10 WoAsA $50
experiment.-Fieldan and Farm. - -
Says Farmer Brace OF Weld county my
poultry affords The best profit of anything
else upon my farm. 1 have couple hum
dred young turkeys now fully feathered
that will bring me not less than 200 the
coming fall, and will not have cost me to
exceed $40 Chickens are fully as profitable
My poultry will turn me a net profit this
year of over $500 Field and Farm.
Deputy Sheriff G. d. Moors returned yes
tertay from trip to Custer and other
points in Southern Dakota, whittier he was
on official business. He givesa most glow
ing account of The country through which
he travelled, and says that he never In his
life saw everything looking so well at this
time of year MS they did along the line he
Jonrne, ed. The cattle are all fat and look
ing splendidIy.-Cheyenne Leader.
Wool is selling tolerably fair down in
New Mexico. Mr.. d. Mcintosh, of this
city, who is Interested in some large focks
in that territory. disposed of $4,000 pounds
of wool at Las Vegas the other day, obtain
ing sixteen cents therefore. The gentle
man estimates that his wool would scour
away fifty per cent. 1t was much cleaner
than Colorado wool of the same qualify
Field and Farm.
Major John HnIburt, Mayor of Maniton,
has purchased fitm DR.. j. B. Mitchell his
ranch of ,52o ceres three miles north of
Pueblo, for the sum of $9l 200, the larger
part of wbieh is in cash. The land lies be-
tween the Fountain and Dry creeks, and is
fine property. Major Hulburt proposes TO
sink artesian wells and expend large
amount in improving the land and will
then start town there to be called North
Pueblo.
The crop yields from Twenty-Five to forty
five bushels 10 the acre and the grain when
ripe will go seventy pounds to the bushel.
The crops we saw had been irrigated but
twice and possibly would need no more.
From what. we taw .and learned we CON
cIu,,ed that third OF the cultivated acres
of the San Luis valley could be proftably
planted to these field peas. The grain is
worth more, pound for pounds, than Is corn.
and can be produced at half the cost Of pro-
ducing corn.-Field and Farm.
Senator Barelp, one of TIT largest wool
growers df Southern Colorado, has taken a
large amount OF stock in a company which
proposes TO make the Maguey plant of
Mexico, from which the national drink of
pulque Is made, take the place Of wool and
cotton. 1t Is said that all garments manu-
featured from cote n or wool may be as
readily made fr IN the fibre of the Maguey
plant. The consumption of pulque in the
Republic of Mexico Is 226. .OG0 gallons daily.
| From this one may form an idea Of the
great supply of Maguey fibre.
There are eight acres of corn on the
ranch Of W. H. E. Davis. in the valley
near Nepesta, that at the present date July
II. will lverage six feet in height. 1t has
commenced to tassel out and form ears,
| There are twelve acres more on the same
farm equally good but not quite 80 forward.
The land was plowed very deep last fall
| Tie corn was planted the last week IN
April, worked twice with Climax dirk har-
row after planting, and four times after
the corn was up. 1t has never been irri'
gated, nor has any rain fell to wet the
ground an inch deep since 1t was planted
Pueblo Chieftain.
Mr.. PARCELS.
has been in Aspen few days contracting
for the sale of his cabbage, of which he will
have $4,000 crop, besides this German
fruit he has sold this season 5000 quarts OF
straw berries and will have about 2,C0t
quarts of red raspberries. Three years age
Mr.. PARCELS was in Aspen with one shirt
al old hat, pair of overalls and pair o,
twoyear-old army shoes. Now he raises
80 900 worth Of fruits and garden truck OF
less than twenty acres Of ground. This IL
illustrates what sober, industrious mar
can accomplish in the prolific valley of the
Roaring Fork.-Aspen Times.
There is not to exceed 1000 acres Of land
under cultivation in San Miguel county 10
day, but we have 1sO, GOO acres Of good land
that will produce gsod average crops Of
small grain, that are excelled in quality by
none. Root crops grow better here than IL
any country l have ever seen in m,
travels, which covers the majority Of tht
states west Of the Mississippi. OF course
the day Of fancy prices is past; potatoes o.
hay will not command sale at ten or fifteer
cents per pound as they did few year!
ago, but they will command higher prices
here than almost any other point In th,
United States.-R. A. Osborn In San Mi
gueI Journal.
On the Windsor Farm Messrs. Bush d
Morse have growing tO-daya hundred acre.