The Meeker herald., 1893-06-24
Farm, Notes.

country.
1t is good plan to plant a few acres to
trees every year, and In this way increase the
value of the land and add to the looks of
your farm.
The Empson packing company has leased
1000 acres of land in the vicinity of Long
mont, Boulder County, and is planting it 70
TOMATOES The crop Will be worked up il J
the canning factory. ~
A 1arimer county farmer has an easy way n,
of planting potatoes After the rows have Y
been furrowed OF, he drives along the row'
with wagon containing the seed potatoes,
which are dropped in the open burrows as the
team walks slowly along.
The veteran hortcuturist, Avery Gallup j
is putting in a large fruit orchard near Denl
yer. This gentleman has done alargc amounI
of good work towards advancing the fruit I'M
terests of Colorado, and is always ready II
aid those that are new in this line OF work
The sheep business in Lincoln county !
seems to be in nourishing condition this |
spring. flockmasters rs a rule report tina. |
the lamb erop is yerr good and that the wool |
slip will be unusually heavy Grass has such |
n start now that sheep are fattening rapidly |
and the outlook for prosperous season Is |
flattering.
Colonel James A. Lockhart of Deming, |
New Mexico has brought 1000 head of cattle |
10 Colorado and is ranging them at various
places on the Bijou and Arkansas. lie has |
concluded to transfer all his live stock inter-
ests to Colorado and will build extensive |
feeding yards at Fowler, otero County where
he has bought the Hartig farms
On the X X. farm near Eastonylllc, vi
Paso County, i5O acres of potatoes have Just
been planted. There are also $50 acres sown
TO oats on the same farm. The oats are look
ing well, .he protection afforded by the
many groves aud timber belts on the place
having prevented damage by wind, from
which many fields have suffered this spring.
Strawberry plants are very thirsty during
no la and rpuufPp fFruurut lrFt-
cation. After the fruiting season is over all
the moisture that is cquircd Is sufficient To
keep the plants from drying up, unless II Is
desired 10 raise runners for plants, In which
case enough water must be given To enable
the runners To strike roots and make strong
growth.
j. f. Bird a farmer living four miles from
Lovcland, Larimer county, says: 81 have
changed my plans in operating farm good
deal during the past year or two Instead oi
growing all wheat or all corn, ! now raise
both, and anything else that will do well
have u few COWS, few head OF mares and my
own stallion. | take stock 10 feed, ani alto
gether do pretty well. This beats the one
! crop Idea a long ways
b. q. Newell Of Table Rock, III Paso couH-
| ty, is an earnest advocate of deep plowing,
| He says that In his nineteen years experience
| in Colorado without irrigation he has never
lost n crop, which good fortune he attributes
to his uniform practice Of plowng the ground
| deep lie insists that crops OF all kinds VIII
suffer a great deal more from drouth WHERE
| the stand is plowed only three TO five inches
/ deep than they Will where the ground i
| plowcd eight or more Inches deep
A dispatch from Brush says that the drive
| OF cattle this year over the Texas and Montana
/ cattle trail will be much larger than for scy-
| cral year.. Thus far 5000 head hnve passed
! this point, aud they say there Viii he over
! 100000 vet 10 go by. Foremen IN charge ol
! herds passed say that the feed along the
| route has been very poor south of here On aC-
count OF the numerous prairie ilrcs this
spring, but the range Is in tinc condition aud
/ most herds have been held here day 30 let
! the cattle feed.
| The Fort Collins creamery under the man
! ngcmcnt of the keyos brothers, Is not uuiy
| doing business satisfactory TO the pfuprir.
tors, but Is highly appreciated by tue uusiurss
/ men of the town and 10y farmers who are
| handed checks every fifteen days for the milk
they turn In. This creamery pays out s2hll
| month. II receives an average ut H.uDh
pounds of milk a day, besides a considerable
amount Of cream, and manufactures 5.olO
/ ponnds Of full-creaIp cheese n month,
There Is a line dairy farm in quartz Valley
! Just above Central city, Gilpn County. II
! j. operated by !. Gundy, who finds IN dairy
! ing more certain aud scarcely less profitable
! business than gold mining, Mr, t'undy mlIk'
! from fifteen 10 twenty cows all the time, sell
| Ing all the milk Mt Central city Mt from eight
| to ten cents n quart The altitude OF this
! place Is so grcnt-morc than 5000 icet-tuaL
| corn and sorghum crops cannot be grown at
] all. His entire dependence for winter fodder
| Is hay made from spring rye and from wheat
/ and oats sown together II Is necessary To
| feed heavily of bran the year round, and ON
] account of the high transportation charges.
! this is no Hight expense, but In view ~ the
very satisfactory prices obtained for milk IT
! is one that can well be afforded.
The western slope Will have the largest
fruit crop this year ever known ln it, history,
while the fruit crop OF Eastern and Northern
! Colorado will fall below the average. such
! is the opinion Of the state board Of horticul.
| turc. The board returned few days ago
from trip through northern counties aud
Z will decide whether to hold horticultural
/ fair In Denver next fall The gentlemen re-
| port that the blight Is disappearing and run
! growers are greatly encouraged. The lrai
/ roller and codding moth are stu getting il
| their deadly work, but farmers who lave used
] Insecticides experience much less trouble
| from the pests than formerly, The board
| finds that the box elder tree l. The grand bar.
| boring place for the leaf roller II IS e't'
| mated that 900 900 fruit trees were planted
| in Delta, Montrosc and Mesa counties last
spring AT one time thirty-two carloads Of
trees arrived from the nurseries for fruit
| raisers In Dclti county. The board will issue
bulletin at an early day containing the re-
suit of observations In different purts Of the
state.-Roeky .Uo'ofdI, Noes.
j. w Peck Is making a decided stir In an
! agricultural way on the old Gibbons place
/ near Watkins, in Arnpahoe county. He T.
! not following the common practice OF sitting
! around waiting to sec hoN the season turns
out before planting anything, but has put out
n large acreage,su that If the season Is fayora-
! BILE he will get heavy returns. He has IN 100
acres of broom corn, about half OF 1t on sod.
| Besides this he has put in twenty acres OF
tomatoes, fifteen acres of cabbage, ten ncres
| Hubbard squash, and five acres OF cucumbcrs.
! The tomatoes are principally of two varieties,
! kennedy's Victor and Volunteer. 1t II his
intention to sell the product to the Denver
canning factories. The varieties OF cabbage
| are Burpccs Surehcad and Stoncmason. All
of these crops have been put in by MIR. Peck
with the aid of but one man. The later Guilt
vation will of course require additional help
! but not more than n third as much as would
be necessary for the same acreage in the
East. Mr. Peck Is a "teuderfoot," having
! Just come from Syracuse, New York, but he
knows how to farm aud will surely meet with
success in his venture, although his farm IS
situated in the much-dcsplsel rain-hclt. Even
II the garden crops come to naught, the 100
acres of broom corn will more than pay for
the work expended on the whole and yield a
/ fair profit besides. The rain-bclt needs more
farmers like Mr. Peck.-Fieid and Fdrm.
There is grand crop Of Strawberries In
Fremont County this season and the growers
have been coming money. j. II. Martin, Que
OF the careful culturists Of Canon City, one