The Delta independent., 1889-01-01
Diversity of Farm Crops.

Yle,d and Farm.
To be prosperous the average farmer
must turn his attention to diversity Of
crops. A speciality seldom wins one year
with another. The opportunities for fail
ure in yield or prices are too great Up in
Dakota Mr.. Dalrymple has made great
success with wheat, and wheat only. His
cultivated fields have covered thousands Of
acres. He hit upon the best wheat grow
ing country ON the earth and has used capi-
tai without stint His methods and manner
OF procedure have no liking to general farm
ing where the great majority have but few
acres and light capital The man Of mod
crate sized farm must live as he goes. A
years complete failure would be disastrous.
Therefore, TO guard against failure there
must be . diversity of crops. If wheat
fails, corn may not Ifcorn and wheat and
potatoes all fail, then the dairy COWS may
keep the wolf from the door.
Our farmers in Colorado have in the
years past produced too few crops-have
had to buy too many articles for their own
use that could Just as well have been pro-
duced on their own farms. They have al
lowed immense wealth to be sent abroad
by the people Of the State TO pay for butter
and cheese and pork and beans, that should
have been gathered from the farms they
have been occupying without profit II in
dividual farmers would take this subject
of . greater diversity of crops home
70 themselves, and study it in the light Of
the benefits it would bring to their own
households. and act in accordance with
their own best Judgment, we should hear
much less complaint Of hard times anG the
unprofitablcness of farming as an occupa-
tion in our State. Our farmers, as a class
and as individuals, trust too much TO the
failure or success of single operations-of
single crops. The grain grower turns all
his attention TO grain, and buys his butter
and cheese and pork-buys that which
affords the most profit, and sells tha. which
turns the least The farm policy of the
past has been bad
To render Colorado farmers independent
and insure their permanent prosperity the
entire system must be changed. Each
farm must produce the necessary vegeta-
bles and fruits of all kinds for the family
must support few sheep, n few hogs,
chickens, turkeys and all the other neccs-
saries that 60 to make life on the farm
comfortable and the occupation of the far.
MGR independent and remuncrative. The
two millions and half of money that has
been going abroad for the pork and the
poultry, the butter andthe lard our people
require must bc kept at hom,Ndistributcd
among Colorado farmers. before the coun-
try can expect to be entirely prosperous.
At tho Iowa State Poultry Exhibition,
held In Marshalltown last week, the follow
ing prires were awarded to Mrs. George
NJ. Shutc, Of Denver, on Houdans: First
oil breeding pen; first second. third aud
fourth on hens, first on cockercls; first and
second on pullets Mrs. Shute's display
caused widespread admiration, both among
visitors and exhibitors, and was universally
pronounced the finest exhibit of Houdan
fowls ever seen in Iowa.
A meadow, like that o. the Messrs.
Adams Brothers near Telluride in San
Miguel County, where they grow four tons
Of hay On the acre and can sell II at this
season Of The year for thirty dollars the
ton, u worth having. FssjoWd Furm.
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II every farm In Colorado had resez.
voir, every farm could bc irrigated in The
fall. and every farm could be plowcd In
the fall. Then would be good crop proc
perity Al svsr the land. FAN irrigation
81 I'm paoWiag will revolutionise ugricul-
turo b tAis nid-sontinsat = Nstd and
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