Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-06-21

the 100 acre farms in tho Mississippi
and Missouri Valleys, and the outla.
for machinery, farming stock, pur
chase money, taxes, etc, are proper
tionately less. There are n hundred
thousand acres Of such lands located
in the very heart OF the San Lui
Valley, all within six miles OF thu
Denver 81 Rio Grande Railroad, con
venient to markets and Shipping sta
tions, for sale Mt prices varying from
$3.50 to $500 per acre, according t
location and improvements. Most 0.
these lands are fenced and have beer
under cultivation and IN many in
stances have wells and some build
ings, everything ready to proceed al
once to begin farming. A small cash
payment only is required whore the
purchaser Immediately occupies the
premises, and long time at six pei
cent. interest is granted for the de,
ferred payments.
WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH FORTY ACRES
Ten acres should be- sown to alfal-
ia, which is a species of clover. Two
full crops each season can be cut,
averaging at least three tons to the
acre, and a pasturage besides which
will serve until winter. This alfalfa
field will subsist horses, cattle and
hogs without any other feed; so also
will the hay itself, even hogs keeping
fat the entire winter fed upon the hay
exclusively Poultry also thrive upon
the green alfalfa. Like all clovers it
enricbes the soil, and extraordinary
yields of grain crops result in rota-
ting after it. The ten-acre field Of
alfalfa will provide for team of
horses, five to eight mich COWS and
fifty stock hogs.
Ten acres should be devoted to
peas, sugar beets and potatoes, one
half potatoes, an acre in beets and
the balance in peas, The peas will
yield fifty bushels to the acre, the
beets thirty-fve tons, and the potatoes
200 bushels to the acre. The peas
are excellent feed to fatten the hogs,
and mixed with barley and oats and
ground are excellent for horses.
Used with sugar beets and alfalfa
hay they produce great results if fed
to mich COWS during the winter The
potatoes are equal 30 the best quail
ties of the famous Colorado product
and find ready sale to supply the mar
kets Of the eastern and southern states
at prices averaging fifty cents bus
he'll.
Ten acres of the farm should be de-
voted to wheat, which will yield, if
following the potato and beet field,
not less than thirty.fve bushels to the
acre. The local mills, of which there
are several in the valley, are paying
at this time forty-fve cents a bushel,
the lowest ever known.
The balance of the farm, aside
from the kitchen garden, should be
devoted to oats and barley, which are
quite as profitable, if marketed out.
right, as wheat. Hops grow wild in
the mountains, and by actual expert
ment in the valley it has been proven
that in yield and in quality they even
the product of Oregon. The
poles can be had for the simple cut.
ting in the mountains. There is no
rain during picking season and con-
sequently no mildew or disaster to
contend with. There are hundreds
of thousands of acres of timber in the
mountains, from which the settle is
free to select his fuel and building
without charge.
DAIRYING AND POTATOES.
The owner of such forty-acre
farm, under present conditions,
should make specialties of dairying,
in which the pure, flowing artesian
water Of unyarying quantity and tenn
Derature, is an important factor, and |
5he potato crop. The free mountain
ranges and the abundant forage on
he farm should enable the farmer to
iatten a few head of beeyes every
year. The local markets, including
Denver aud Pueblo, always demand !
1t the highest prices snch products.
The fertilizers resulting from such
operations, together with the rotation
after alfalfa, will sustain the very
highest fertility. Irrigation will it,
jelf almost maintain the virgin fer
ility of the soil.
Work horses, mich COWS, stock
logs and poultry, can be purchased
1t reasonable prices III the valley,
farming implements, dry goods
clothing, etc, can be pro
cured at Alamoosa at Chicago prices
md about ten per cent. additional.
There are scattering farmers, towns
md settlements, and total popula-
ion in the valley, altogether, Of about
5000 people.
The farmer should have at least
$500 in cash when he arrives IN the
ALLEY, and, it Is presumed, bedding,
clothing, and few articles Of indis-
)ensable furniture besides. II so
he can join with some
leighbor in the purchase of team
lofses, wagon and harness-plow and
narrow, which will cost him for his
hare, 500. Material for a house
md stable, $50; seed, SIS; two COWS,
;35; poultry, $40, groceries, etc, $780,
This will carry the family through
Until the garden and the harvest field