Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-26
WESTERN FARM NOTES.
uFrom Field and Farm.)

state.
A Greeley man has been growing to-
bacco for his own use for the past TWEEN
ty years
The Odam outfit of Magdalena, New
Mexico. will send 800 head Of cattle
into Texas.
Corn will be an important product In
Otero county this year and the quality
is exceptionally fine.
Marked success has been obtained
with sweet potatoes this year In the
southern part of the state.
Mrs. David Best is meeting with sue
cess raising turkeys at Rocky Ford
Otcro county. She has 40 Of various
ages, all thriving finely.
ii. r. Miller and others Of Larimer
county have contracted for 5000 lambs
at Albuquerque, New Mexico. They
will drive to Clayton and ship.
Below Palmer Lake, on the Divide.
near the Denver & Rio Grande rail
road track, is n dangerous strip of Rus
sian thistle, two miles in length.
Thoughtful darymcn in Colorado are
considering the ensilage question seri-
Ously and 1t Is safe to say that several
silos will be built this winter in the Ar
ton by next year.
J. ii. Hcarn. of Roswell, New Mcxi-
60, has bought 1000 head of cattle dur
ing the past year at an average of IS
IL head and sold them at S14. He has
cleared fully 100000. Several other cat
tlcmcn have done rs well in eastern
New Mexico.
The Wyoming Experiment Station has
In
potatoes, the cost including seed, irriga-
ton, labor and fertilizer. The yield was
52lH bushels. That Is, with yield OF
800 bushels of potatoes to an acre the
cost Is ten cents a bushel.
s. Floershcim has bought ranch
near Springer, New Mexico. and stocked
it with $4,000 sheep. Springer eight
years ago was the heart and center or
the cattle trade of the Southwest and 1t
would appear that sheep were replacing
long horns In the territory.
The abundance of feed and forage i'll
Otcro county this year will call for
large amount of stock to protitably con-
sumo it. There will be heavy de
mand for good feeding lambs and weth
crs in that section If dealers do not get
the prices up beyond reason.
T.. II. Parsons says the cattle ranges
of Nevada are very dry and there Is
going to be some loss in live stock, tenn
pcred only by the amount Of rains which
come early. In some sections the hay
crop has proven almost a failure and in
nearly all of them has been a heavy
shrinkage.
The range pasturagc In Colorado this
year is something wonderful. Field
and Farm representative walked
through knce-high gramma In Las
Animas county last week. The hot.
dry weather now prevailing Is curing
this hay as 1t stands and thus laying
up abundant forage for winter grazing.
According to figures in State Veterin-
arian Gresswelrs office the movement
of cattle from the south to the north
has been unusually large this year, the
total number that have been Inspected
being 245.99O head. 1t Is expected that
there will be about 10000 more, bring
ing the total number up to 255.OOp head.
The system of inspection has been go
complete that during the last three
years 1t is said that not a single case
of Texas fever has been reported.
Our farmers have just finished har-
vesting one of the largest and most
bountcous cereal crops that has ever
been grown in this great and beautiful
Cache Ia POudre valley, which gave an
average yield of from forty to ninety
five bushels per acre of the the finest
kind of wheat, oats and barley. The
potato crop has not yet been harvested
but the present outlook indicates that
the tubers this year will far surpass any
of previous years both in quantity and
quality.-Windsor Leader.
There is considerable activity in wy.
oming ranch realty just now. sale
has just been made in Johnson county
IF 500 acres for SIC. 1000 and recently the
owners of the Hatton ranch, near
Laramie, disposed of 1000 acres of
their land to the Wyoming Central
Land and Improvement company for
something over $4,000. Wyoming Ia
evidently getting ready to take on an
agricultural boom. There Is yet good
deal of undeveloped water supply in
Wyoming that will be utilized very soon
now.
As the dangers of transmission be-
tween diseased and healthy individuals
have been illogically exaggerated, so
have the dangers from the consumption
of beef. and especially of milk, from
tubcrculous cattle. The danger does ex-
ist, but it is so small as to bear no COM
parison to that from milk kept in un-
clean vessels and handled as 1t Is hand
led by cheap dealers. Where one child
acquires tuberculosis by consuming
milk from tuberculous COW, a hundred
thousand die of summer diarrhoea from
milk contaminated with ordinary fer
ment germs.
At the Agricultural college bees are
put into winter quarters October 18th
in the following manner: The hives are
left on their summer stands, about four
inches from the ground. The upper
story Is filed with chaff to absorb the
moisture which always generates in the
hive during the winter. and the hives
are then banked with dirt all around
closing the entrance so that only one or
two bees could come out at time.
better way is to have a double-walled
hive filled in with chalf all around. as
this serves to absorb all moisture while
forming Il warm and equable protec-
ton for the bees during sudden changes
of temperature during the winter.
square acre plowed with fifteen-inch
furrows requires cighty-four rounds and
1856 turns. while the same area in tho
form of n parallelogram. two by eighty
rods, requires thirteen rounds and
tifty-two turns. In one form 1t will
take tyirp the time tn plON that II does