The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1893-06-03


II I. reported ,f,a. the Brown-liif cattle
company is about to place scverai thor'saho
more head on its range in Morgan county.
Frank Adams of Gunnison county sfiPPeo
several carloads OF fat steers to omahh IA
week, where they were sold for a good price
The agricultural college at Fort Coiins
will soon make small shipment OF c., .o,n oe
Chicago. The shipment VIII i"ei""e '
extra fine animals.
The state land board has sold $40 acres OF
school land near Fort Collins TO inc heMy
organized Warren Lake Reservoir ConIi,nh5
for a reservoir site. This price paid was si'''V
acre. . ,;,,
done in Western Kansas this season, me
Lombard company of Kansas City. Is breaR-
Ing eighty acres on each rretioh o. us 'o,VN
acre tract In Hamilton county: Inc pay ior
breaking is q. 80 an acre and the privilege y,
putting In the arst crop OF wheat at reh'a.
OF one-fourth.
John Wardlow Of Rio 8rarde county, has
in $40 acres of wheat and oats AND Will plant
seventy acres to potatoes. Senator iinl.IVns
of the same county, did not make anytn,ns
on wheat last year and will turn his attention
this season To other crops. He is putting IN
100 acres of alfalfa, eighteen acres oil pota
toes, forty acres OF peas and NIFTY acres vi
oats.
1t does not pay to plant sweet corn In long.
narrow strips in the garden rs Is 80 Ireiucu.!
perfect lacking many kernels from itnpctiec,
fertilization. fit is desired to plant say iVo
hills Of sweet corn, 1t Is much better 10 pam
1t in compact body, ten hills square, .hai,
to plant It in two long rows. The yiclu OF
good corn will be twice as great AS IN INC
former case.-Field and Farm.
great many Colorado potato growers arc
using horse planters in putting In their crop
this spring and find them great lapor-sa'els.
II one does not own planter potatoes ,''.y
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which are attached two plows the regulation
distance apart, acr oss the held PACK anu
forth, with boy on each runner anu pfU INV
box of the cut tubcrs between them. i"e
seed is easily covered by a harrow or """
drawn across the burrows.
MAY and June are the months for planting
out sweet potato slips or vines. Draws from
the hot bed should he set out early, ana vines
from this early planting should De useu ioi
the main crop. Sweet potatoes shouiu nave
a deep, well cultivated soil as free from seeus
of weeds and grass as possible, because culti-
walton Is difficult after the ground Is near!
covered with vines. Plant nansemonuS 10,
table use, with possibly some white or iea
yams. The latter are fairly good Tor eooS'"s'
and make a splendid stock food.
Hon. Cashmere Barela, a large sheep own
or Of Trinidad says that the past winter mas
been the most favorable OF stock in this sec
tion OF any In fifteen years. III uaiiy, no
says 1--WE count upon saving 10 per cent Oh
the lambs This year we shall save very
nearly 100 per cent. and the proportion ior
calves holds nearly as good 1t Is the nest
season for ockmcn that we have had LOT
many years The grass Is in fine condition
and everything points 10 successful year LOT
the ranchcrs OF Las Animas county"
L. A. Van Gorden OF Jefferson county Is
seeding forty acres to alfalfa and orchard
grass this spring In addition to what he had
| in before He says that he is confident that
grass land is worth more than grain land.
| This may not he true when the product u
| sold rs hay but 1t is when IL Is turned mo
| beef aud pork Mr.. Van Gordon say: My
experience with n combination of alfalfa ana
! orchard grass convinces me that II i Vastly
superior TO alfalfa alone. j am seeding sew
cral acres to timothy, on sod, with the Arne,'
| secdcr not as an experiment but as thc result
| OF experience.-Fleidd aud Farm.
All inspectors OF the southern country re-
port TO DR.. Grcsswcll unusually large ship.
ments OF cattle from the ranges OF Texas and
New Mexico. They will be taken t. the
/ fresh summer ranges of Montana and Wyo-
ming, where they will be kept until fall.
Some Of them will be taken to Kansas Inc
spring drives along the trails leading IRON
| the winter pastures OF the south have b:gnn,.
1t was anticipated that OF the cattle ,hippch
and driven 100 900 head would pass through
| Colorado. BY present indications, however,
fully 600 head will cross the siaie.-Fed
! and Farm.
II q -. Of Iv.. ,uiIius fru i,roo Iaut,s
I
! Chicago market. She lot consumed 100 tons
OF alfalfa and seventy-onc tons OF grain.
| After deducting the cost of lambs, cost oil
feed, expense of feeding and marketing ana
interest on the Investment, from the selling
price, Mr.. Pratt had &, 200 left to pay for the
alfalfa fed This would make the selling
price of the alfalfa 50 per ton. These lambs
were ordinary Mexican stock, and Mr.. Frat
success with them is nothing unusual boz
ems OF other farmers have done as well or bet
| ter. This plan OF working oil the large sue
plus OF alfalfa by feeding 1t to lambs Is be-
| coming popular in this state as II is pront'
nble.-Fied and Farm.
A correspondent says that the farmer
berry patch is often failure from I'VE
causes: one failure 10 get good plants OF :
desirable variety; the other, neglect to give
clean culture As n rule 1t IS mistaken econ
omy to go to n farmer neghbor to get plant
of any kind, unless he Is AN amateur horti
culturst of an advanced grade. IL Is gener
ally mistake for n beginner to get grca
many varieties. 1t takes a good deal OF prac
tlce 10 be able to distinguish one variety oil
strawberry or raspberry plants from another
and as they run together persistcntly, Otter
making with frcc-growing varieties In We
season sideways spread Of six feet 1t Is yer!
easy to get everything mixed up, and in TIVE
or three years varieties OF strong growth hav'
run the others out In the case OF strawber
ries IL often occurs that the staminatc or per
feet boomers are crowded out by tn
stronger growing pistillate kinds, and the re
| suit Is n barren bed j have known this 4
occur repeatedly In cases where several varie
ties were set out by farmers and for this reaso
would advise planters to get their plants o
growers who understand their business an
take especial pains to keep varieties separat
and pure.
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