The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1890-08-09

have been smiling.
The time is close at hand whem hun
dreds of miles of irrigating bitches in the
State must be carried underground
There will be use for large amount Of
earthen piping.
The large number Of farmers of Colo
rado will come out this year in far bet
ter fix as to crops than they did last year
or the year before. All those who have
had water will have excellent crops.
Fall wheat has done so well in Colora-
do the present season it should in
induce increased acreage the coming fall.
The average yield of the fall planted
wheat over the spring planted has been
five to eight bushels to the acre.
Colorado will be short in nothing but
its small grain crop this season. Corn,
hay and potatoes will be fully up to the
usual yield. The farmer will feel better
after the harvest than he felt before the
late rains when he was somewhat blue.
In no section of of America does the
DOGaUO pldub6T anu LILO poenoO AAB8CA
work SO well as in Colorado. Where
the great fields Of potatoes are grown
here there are no roots, stones or clods to
interfere with the working Of the ma
chine.
There are men who claim to know
farming in minute" remarked Farmer
Stanger, s'but am not one of that kind.
1t took me eight years to learn how to
grow corn, and after fifteen years am
Just beginning to know the rudiments OF
general farming"
Over considerable portion of the State
the second crop Of alfalfa has now been
gathered. Many of the farmers assure us
that four tons from the acre has been
had. Some of the second cutting was
damaged by the late rains. Alfalfa will
prove blessing to many sections this
year.
Experiments with potatoes planted on
the surface, three inches deep, six in
ches and eight inches, respectively, re-
suited largely in favor OF the eight inch
ones. But then the labor of digging
them was much more, as also was the
cost Every inch of depth increased the
yield of good potatoes considerably.
All through the present week the Ar
kansas has been on boom. At Pueblo
its banks have been running full. Had
the Bob creek ditch been completed the
great reservoirs in Otero and Kiowa
counties could have been filed. There
has been water enough running down
that great channel to have irrigated for
year all southern Colorado.
A favorite practice with many of our
best feeders has been to cut oats when
yet green and only approaching maturi-
ty, cure and store in the usual way; then
cut and feed, sometimes alone, some
times together with cut corn stalks, clo-
YER hay, ETC. This is most excellent fod-
der for horses and cattle and much rel
ished by all kinds of farm stock.
The position taken by a writer in the
Country Gentleman, that the cause of
tho present agricultural depression is
due to the rapid settlement and cultiva-
tion of the unoccupied arabic lands in
this country in advance of a home de-
mand for their products; and the fact
that this domain will be completely alb
sorbcd at an early day, thus stopping the
expansion Of the area devoted to culti-
walton, is plausible.
Crops were planted in Colorado just
thirty years ago, but farming did not
commence particularly until ten years
ago. That year there was half million
bushels of wheat grown in the State and
potatoes enough to feed about one-tenth
OF the people. Since then there has been
wonderful change. Our wheat yield
will this year run up to three million
bushels, and our potato crop, possibly
to five millions.
The farmers in the Arkansas valley
for the best success should plant their
wheat in the fall" says we'll posted ar
riculturist who has been experimenting
in that direction. "The soil is little
too warm for the spring variety. the
same cultivation that will produce TWEEN
ty bushels of the spring kind will pro
duce thirty of the fall OF winter kind.
And then the latter will require not
more than half the irrigation that the
latter will"
eGilt-edge farming" says the National
Stockman, is getting gilt-edge rsscits
by the straighteet and simplest methods.
1t is not adopting fancy and elaborate
pro,esaes where simple AMI, direct ones