Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-01-31
Farm and Irritation Note.

The Cache Ia Poudre river in north
| ern Colorado supplies water for the irri-
CATION of 972 farms, ranging from forty
to 100 acres In each farm. 1t also
furnishes water for large number of
small market gardens and for the do
nestle uses of $1,000 people.
The estimate on the number OF fruit
trees that are to be set out In Delta
county this spring Is variously placed
all the way from 100000 to 2,5OO,OOO
Ii two million trees are planted Delta
will be doing a land office business
and will hold her own for one years
record. There will probably be 1O,-
( 100000 fruit trees put out in Western
I Colorado this year.
A new irrigating canal Is to be built
In the Shenandoah valley Of Western
Colorado by the Lucern Canal and De-
velopment company. The ditch, which
will be about twelve miles long and
costing in the neighborhood of $4,000,
will tap the San Miguel river at point
Just below the mouth of Cottonwood
creek. The Shenandoah is one of the
coming fruit districts of the Western
Slope. The land embraced in this bot
tom is Of a red sandy loan and very
fertile. 1t slopes gradually to the south
and east, and as 1t is protected from
the elements upon all sides, the win
ters there are almost unknown-in fact,
this spot is the cream, SO to speak, of
the whole Shenandoah country.
! The Colorado State Forestry Asso-
citation held its annual meeting In Den
YER this week and from all indications
/ 1t would seem that n renewed interest
Is being awakened in the forestry in
! terests of the West. In Colorado after
> ten years of persistent effort, largely
along educational and preparatory
lines, a point has been reached where
the forest laws should be strengthened
and effective administrative methods
adopted, especially for the prevention
! Of destructive forest fires, and the pun
ishment of those starting them. There
! should be general awakening Of in
, terest In the forestry question here,
and all should do their part in the
: good work. One way of effecting this
is to join the Colorado State Forestry
Association, the membership of which
should. be largely increased. Among
the leading topics for discussion at the
late session was that of combining in
one department the work of the state
forest commissioner and that of the
state game and fish wardens; and the
practicability of securing, in the work
of forest conservation, the cooperation
of lumbermen and other large consum-
ers of lumber. The help Of each one
interested directly or indirectly in the
preservation Of the forests must be OBJ
tained for this great work.-Field and
Farm.
A new forage crop for Colorado
grown for the first time last season
from seed brought from the Columbian
exposition is red-clump millet. This
crop was brought from the worlds fair
by ]. Il. Reynolds Of Ell Paso county,
& g
Both pronounce 1t most wonderful
grower and 1t seems to be perfectly at
home here In Colorado as 1t came
originally from the high steppes of Rus
sia. Every joint of the plant tillers
and in this way the foliage Is multi
piled, which makes it very heavy
yielder. The red-clump millet is going
to succeed in Colorado but as yet the
seed is too scarce to expect any great
crops for few years at least; Another
thing from Russia introduced by
these gentlemen is the angled pea,
legume that surprises the natives by
its heavy yeild Of both grain and TO-
lage.
! The Florence Cannery company has
been incorporated with capital stock
of $4,000. The company will begin
the erection within thirty days of
factory which will have a capacity of
/ about 25,OO0 cases per year. 1t will re
quire 200 acres of tomatoes and vege-
tables to run the factory one season.
Besides vegetables, the factory will
handle all the drop apples form the
orchards of Florence and Canon City.
At the recent meeting of the State
Horticultural Society George j. Spear
of Greeley read paper upon patron
iZing and encouraging home industries.
This paper was very interesting, be-
/; cause it was so candid. Mr.. Spear is a
nurseryman himself, and in speaking
! of the tree agent said: "They say the
tree agent is superlative and enlarges
! upon the properties of his tree. Well,
81 eli the Letter. If it were not for
! his tremendous stories, his pictures
which make you smell the fruit and
plates of roses which change the whole
atmosphere in to fragrance, many a
man would never get started in the
business. AS for you old fellows who
have met the tree agent year in and
year out, his talk does not phase you;
you know exactly what he has to sell
and you buy accordingly"
At the annual meeting of the Boulder
Fruit Growers Association last week,
the following officers We're elected: W.
l.. Scott, president; s. B. Sutherland,
vice president; G. NJ. Anderson, secre-
tary; J. w. Andrew, treasurer. The
report of the secretary showed the as
sociation to be in very healthy condi-
ton, the membership being uow forty
five as against fifteen at the beginning
of last year. The association has not
lost dollar in handling fruit, owing
to the efficiency of the local agent, E.
T. Carr. The association has already
purchased and received two carloads
of berry and apple boxes for the ensu-
ing year. Their fields of operations
are Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and
Colorado.
Mr.. Tenney, superintendent of irri-
cation of Division No. 1, which is the
Poudre valley, makes the following re-
port, which we find in the Greeley Tri-
bune:
Total acres under ditch, 177,SOS.
Total acres of alfalfa, 29,1S3.
Total acres of other grass 1922.
Total acres other crops, 1920.
Total acres pasture and waste, 61,-
G3O.
Total busllals of wheat, GIL, ,127.
| Total bushels of oats, BOG. 6.734.
Total bushels of barley, 60, 146.
Total bushels of corn, 29,351.
/ Total sacks of potatoes, 1,410,72S.