Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-12-26
! WESTERN FARM NOTES.
(From Field and Farm.)

went to $3.50.
The Christmas trade in beef this sea-
son was mere bagatelle as compared
with that of former years.
John Hawxhurst of the Plateau VAL
ley in Mesa county shipped seventeen
carloads of beeves and feeders to the
Chicago market this week.
More than 5000 head of rat beef cat
tie besides large lot of feeders have
been Slipped from the North Park
ranges in northern Colorado this fall.
DR.. w. II. Dunn, who raised 300 acres
Of hemp near Lincoln, Nebraska, Is now
working the crop into tow. which he will
ship to eastern markets. He announces
his intention Of raising 900 acres next
year.
Oats are bringing 81 cent n pound in
the local market at Evergreen, jefferson
county, this week. AT This price oats
can be grown, but there Is no money in
the crop such rs prevailed five or six
years ago.
DeWcese & Dye are building new
ditch from Gray Creek, near Canon
City, and will bring 1000 new acres un-
der cultivation. -Four hundred cf
those acres are TO be put into orchard
the coming spring. .......
The price of prime Christmas beef Is
but a "Reminiscences of what 1t used to be.
In 1891 holiday beef brought S7.15, the
highest in twelve years. DCcembe",
1884, Christmas cattle sold at IS and IN
December, 1888, $50 was the top.
The Cache valley. agricultural society
of Utah l.. engaged In shipping wheat in
trainload lots to Colorado, Texas AMI
~ OF, sh, 70,
cents n bushel on their grain at the
loading pont,''and seem satisfied with
the price.
There Is a disposition on the part,~sf
feeders to hold their cattle back FOR bet
ter prices. with our Colorado feeders
there IS not much ripe beef Oh, hand ,at
present, and feeding will continue until
spring in order to bring the Deeves into
better maturity.
The high elevation of Colorado, Wyo-
ming and Montana has made sheep rails
Ing success. The freedom from dis
ease and the dry air make The slccpmcn
cry Eureka! for they have found Il see
ton which will be grazing ground for
many years to come.
S. b. Wright OF Weld county has ono
of the best potato: :.cdllafs In the state
1t has capacity of 100 carloads and IA
now nearly full. He has. n crew. Of
men at work sorting out seed stock for
sprins planting. He has already shipped
100 carloads of potatoes to market.
II. w. Lewis Of this city, " connection
with Rollan Sherman, is branching opt.
In the sleep business and las> Iatefy
purchased in Lincoln county 1900 head
from Strang brothers, 500 from j. NJ
Laurie and 800 from A. Mcintyre. MI. ,
Sherman has also been over west buy
Ing sheep for their range. = -,
Young fruit frees that have been.
glrtlled by rabbits may be cut of Inst
below the gird1e. The stub will semi up
one or more sprouts. Keep them all or
but one, and a fine tree will grow again
in t"o years. Put wax OF some kind
on the stub. BE surc~that the sprou.s
do not come from>+he roots.
d. r. Clark Of Mesa county has just
purchased eighteen head OF Shropshire
and Cotswold bucks from ID. l.. Tracy
of this city. They were yearlngs AMI
brought $40 head. Mr.. Clark has
gone to Wisconsin to buy more bucks OF
the same breeds, and these will he
turned among his 5000 range ewes.
w. G. Peterson of Fremont, Nebraska ~
recently conducted some experiments IN +
making syrup from sugar beets. De eS- !,
timates that seventy gallons of syrup
can be made from ton OF beets. II lin +
expense of manufacturing the syrup Is
light and he will dispose OF his crop IN
this way IL he can find a market for II
Down. at San Marcfnf, Ncrw Mexico,
near old Fort Craig. Broyles & Sickl IS
have an apiary of 800 colonies all IN
good working form. They contract their
output In Kansas City and ship nearly
all of 1t to that market. The lower R.s.
Grande Valley is the natural home OF
the bee, and these people ought to do
well.
A Las Animas paper says that there
are 1000 head of heep-being fed in
Bent county this winter which consume
twenty-five tons of hay daily, and !f
they are fed for 100 days they will con-
sumo 1850 tons of hay. Among the
feeders are NJ. ID. Crane 5000 head, III.
c. Abbott 5000. Il. j. Huling 5000
LAMBS and Il. NJ. Smith $50 head.
If, when trees are received. they ap-
pear to be frozen, as they sometimes are.
dig a trench deep enough to receive them
and cover them, root and branch. several
inches above them, and leave them alone
till they thaw out Nine times out Of
ten they will suffer no injury from the
frost. by all means avoid rapid thaw-
ing. as that will ruin the trees or plants.
Thus far Mexican lambs have ulfdc
the most profit for Larimcr county feed
ers in every way. In estimating the
total expenses Of sheep feeding. hay has
usually been figured at 81 per ton. wheat
and corn at S15 and beets at 81: so that
when the debtor and creditor sides bal
ance. the feeder has marketed his crops
on his farm at full value and has also
received full pay for his labor. As Il
farmer doing his own feeding. he has
put in a profitable winter. As an out
side feeder buying all his supplies and
hiring the work done, he may have
lost money in sQme instances.
1t is question of some moment
whether the root crops will ever be
grown in Colorado to the displacement
of alfalfa for feeding purposes. Under
Colorado conditions at the present time.
it costs Just about as much TO grow a
ton of beets as 4 ton of alfalfa. and -
there was an assured market for an. uh-
Limited quantity of each at 81 a ton,
there would still be more alfalfa grown
thrn sugar beets. The same result Is
obtained IL purchase price IS considered.
In Colorado man can buy all the a.
falfa he wants for four dollars a ton, or
II Il h..rf H.