The state herald., 1891-12-25
FARMING NEWS.

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A Kansas City mill has An agent In thu
San Luis Valley buying wheat. He paya
sl.lo and furnishes sacks.
The receipts Of Texas cattle st Chicago
80 far this year are 5000 head more than
during the same period last year.
The amount Of cattle shipped yearly
from Las Animss, Bent county, ID said "a
be between 1900 and 25, 900 head.
1t Is said that most of the ranches proved
up At the Glenwood Springs land ONCE are
mortgaged for the money wherewith TO pay
the government.
Mr.. Garst, q leading ranchman Of Weed.
New Mexico, is extensively engaged In
the raising Of Angora Roats. His principal
market is Chicago where the goats bring .
handsome sum.
The Irrigation Land Company has plant
cd 1000 acres of wheat on its land in
Prowers County. They have 1900 acres
atogether planted to that crop, 5000 being
In Bent County.
Itcosts q ton to grow alfalfa and put
1t In stack on Las Animss farms. On
some Of the thousand acre farms In the
Arkansas Valley, where every thing is done
by improved machinery this cost Of pro.
duction 10 reduced one e-half.
Twenty-seven thousand bushels Of grain
have been shipped from Mosca, In the San
Luis Valley, during the past month, max.
Ing In all sixty car loads. This is only
little Of what grain is yet to bs threshed
and marketed In that vicinity.
Mr.. M. E. Deane, Of the vermiio. New
Mexico, is going into fruit raising on an sx
tensive scale. Fruit does msgniHcently in
this section Of the territory ~ has been
proved by the success of MIR. J, B. Dav
son, whose fine orchard is located In this
valley.
A ''pickle farm" in the vicinity Of Chics.
20 comprises i5O acres. All It's product,
are converted into pickles, and the i'm
mense vats on the grounds now hold a. .0oc
bushels OF silver skin onions und 25,00c
bushels Of cucumbers. Sauer krsut 10
also made, and 2OJ tons of horseradish are
ground up every year.
1t is good scheme to irrigate the mesd
ow in the fall. The water will not only
fertilize the land but will keep the grsss
from drying out too much. 1t is general,
risation, but this is mist uke and both
alfalfa and timothy would produce better
crops II irrigated in the fall.
Samples Of sugar beets grown In the
Pecos Valley, New Mexico, were recent,
sent to the chief chemist OF the department
oil agriculture at Washington, and his a..
alysis shows them to contain very hish
per cent. Of saccharine matter. and to b.
In every respect equal to the best German
and French varieties for sugar mskina
purposes.
MIR. Waddingham, the owner, has do
cided upon the opening Of the Amendsris
grant In New Mexico to actual settlers, in
tracts OF 100 acres each. There are In this
grant 1000 acres under fence, the most
OF 1t rs fine land as can be found In the
territory. Mr.. Waddingham will put II
suc ch improvements in the way Of water 70
cilities as may be needed TO thoroughly,
prepare the grant for occupation In asri
cultural pursuits.
Among the many important improve
ments being made upon the college farn
at Fort Collins is building designed 4
facilitate the potting and forcing or orns-
mental shrubbery, Towering and vegetable
plants. The main building. which will b.
used for potting exclusively, Is 2oxai feet
Two stories high. Back OF this IL an o.
lension 2oxjO feet, covered with glsss
Tho temperature Of the building will b
by hot water.
Beef cattle are going 70 be Of more vslua
han they have been In the recent past asj
'rices will bo such that farmers can vell
,nord 10 give some attention 70 then.
iood stock, however, VI ust be handled n
rood prices gre expected, aud this cannot
70 had more surely than by the introdus
ion OF good shorthorn blood. The Short
'orn may not be the general purpos1
'nimal toward which some breeders an
ooking, but 1t IL very sure that II IL ths
'est beef animal we have. No bette,
vidcnco OF this can DO had than By soius
nto the market and noticing what class
4 fat cattle ar e the top sellers. They ars
most Invariably shorthorus. The blue
rass farmers Of Kentucky are also eoot
uthority as 70 what class Of cattle pas
est, aud they arc unanimously In favo,
this breed. -irrigdtion Age.
II Is generally admitted that the pros
Gritty Of this country depends upon tAs
bility Oft agricultural classes TO spsud
ioney, and whether they spend money o,
OF depends whether they have Il 70 speaA.
.ast year tho total value Of the ccrsa,
rops marketed by the farmer WAS Nsa.
U,oo - gathered fro m the most reliable
'urccs. From very conservative estimates
10 wheat crop this year viii. at ChIcast
riccs, amount t1j0, ,000. .0OD, aud allowing \
or cent. for carrying the asme BY tho rail
'ads, will leave the farmer net for whes,
one the sum OF t5so, 100000. Corn iss,
sur sold In Iowa NJ the railroad station q
cents bushoi. To-day It 10 selling q
eents up. aud this crop Ia nearly oss
'ird larger than last year. A large prs
'rtion OF tho corn crop Ia retained 10,
ock and home uses, but II IL believed thai
10 amount shipped will net the farmse
ore than the wheat crop, - the proper
On OF corn 70 wheat 10 about four 10 oss,
h not counting for all tho other crops, The
rmsr will ne, without question over
liion dollars, all In cash.-Field and
lrin.
A case Of now bearings and posssssins
,ususi interest will shortly bs tr,ed. -
70 u'na not In state courts. but BY reason
tho Interstate nature Of tho dispute. vii,
DO tried ln tho unhed STATE
urts. Parties Interested Ia tho Larime,
UNITY ditch 10 Weld and Larimer coun
", Colorado. aro about 70 TAP the Bia
Arsmis river in Larlmcr county, Coiors
, and divert its waters into the Poudrs
Hey BY crossing gap In tho snowy rsuss
70 right To divert tho unapproprisesd
.tsrs Of one stream and use them In he
Hey Of another watershed 10 . right lous
'co settled In Colorado courts ~ coacsdeS
the ssAts constitution, which dsnuss
'orisy Of appropr alton - . prior rish,
luired by use but 10 tho partieu.
Instance In dispute II appcars that IL
lter. OF the stream in question have u. .