Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-11-21
WESTERN FARM NOTES
(From Field 4 Farm

A horticultural society has been organ
lied In Bernalillo county, New Mexico.
The principal object, of the association
will be the fighting Of insect enemies by
systematic spraying.
The nurserymen are reporting a more
quiet demand for cherry stock than for
several years past. II does not seem
possible that we are full of cherries thus
early in our horticultural advancement.
A large shipment of sheep, 1880, and
occupying seventy-One cars, passed
through Denver the, other day en- route
from. Reno, Nevada, to Chicago. No
wonder the Chicago yards have been
glutted.
Now Is good time for the farmer who
is anxious to stock his farm with pure
bred poultry to make his purchases.
Breeders are often willing to sell cheap
in the fall rather than carry their stock
over.
Prime ranch eggs on the Denver mar
ket are very scarce and the trade could
take great many more than are in act
tlal supply. Buyers prefer Colorado eggs
but do not always get them, although
the price Is no object to the most of
them.
c. b. Reynolds of Raymond, Nebras-
ka, shipped fifty car loads of sheep
through Denver last week. They came
from central New Mexico over the Den
yer Il Rio Grande and went to the feed
lots of Nebraska
ii. NJ. Porter of this city has just sold
5000 head of feeders from his range In
Colfax county. New Mexico, to the Ellis
worth land and cattle company of Kan
sas. The cattle are good native stock
and will be put onto corn.
lot of Utah sheep belonging to ]. L.
dollhouse, J. NJ. Jensen. Jr., and f.
Allen of Brigham City, sold in Kansas
City last week. MuttOns of 1OS pounds
brought S3.7O; 129 pounds $2.SJ, and
1,SOO sixty-nine pound lambs 1925.
Corn husking is now the favorite pas-
time In many farming districts. There
is good deal of hand work about corn
husking, but 1t is not quite so laborious
as twenty years ago before the adoption
of the modern gloves, gaffs and pegs.
The Keyes brothers have purchased
the outfit of the Farmers cooperative
creamery at Llttleton, Arapahoe county.
and Ill operate 1t from this time on. This
Is the plant that was established year
or so ago by J. P. Riley of Petersburg
Nearly 100000 feeding lambs, mostly
from New Mexico, have arrived at Fort
Collins this fall and have been placed
on the alfalfa farms of Larimer county
for fattening. These lambs VIII consume
nearly 10000 tons of hay besides great
quantities of grain. iilr
Chris Hopple OF Roam creek in Mesa
county, this season raised $50 tons of
potatoes, besides 1900 bushels OF oats,
large amount of alfalfa and other truck.
He sowed 1SO pounds Of Lincoln oats on
one and three-quarters acres and har-
vested 1S2 bushels.
w. Mcdowell of DeBeque. Mesa 'coun.
ty, planted forty acres of orchard this
season. composed mostly of Ben Davis
and Jonathan apples. He now has sixty
acres OF orchard besides several acres
of vineyard. He finds market for all of
his grapes having sold several tons at
home.
The fruit growers association of Boul-
der county will hold a farmers inst,-
tute about the middle of December and
the programme Is now being made up.
This Is Nthe ticket. Organize. associa-
tions and hold institutes. 1t will go
long way in educating fruit growers in
better Methods 80: 20 '-- B.!
The Platte valley sheep company of
Douglas, Wyoming, has sold, lately
about 5000 head of lambs and year
ling wethers. The purchasers are ranch
men around Douglas, who will feed. al
(falfa and grain to them until some time
IN the winter, when they will ship them
to the Eastern markets for mutton.
Sugar beets grown for stock feeding
purposes are selling on the farms arounl
Denver at S3.I5 ton and ought to be
good property for feeders at this figure
The farmer, on the other hand, cannot
make much money at this price owing to
the amount of hand labor that has to be
put upon the crop during the growing
season.
correspondent in Delta county says:
I'VE are rubbing our trees with lime
we md 1t sure preventive for rab-
bit-gnawing and is easily applied. 1t
does the tees no harm. Last spring I
washed some trees with soap and I've
that had had blood put on them last
season, but saw no difference between
these and those we did not wash"
Two trains of Mexican cattle belong
ing TO man named Burke went to Chi
caSo tic, other day under a $1,000 bond
to again pass inspection at Chicago, be.
cause Of an alleged under valuation ut
the border. Two trains more are at the
border for the same man, but there
seems to be clash between the secre.
tary of the treasury and the bureau of
animal industry.
Hon. Hiram Prince of Garfield Boul-
der county, says the professional chick
en- thieves are committing great depre-
dations in that part of the country
They sneak into chicken houses and
wiring the necks of chickens leaving the
heads in the houses Several farmers in
his neighborhood have suffered in this
way lately, one man losing all he had
The thieves are said to go in wagons
from Denver and sell the chickens here
An Eastern farmer went into the San
Luis valley year ago, rented farm of
100 acres. and put in a crop last spring.
He proposed to do irrigating after his
own IDEAS and ignored the advice and
experience of old-time farmers. Irrlga-
ton was done nearly every day, and OH
part Of his crop he had as much as great
quantities of water standing for days.
He made failure and threshed very lit
tie more than the seed planted. Now he
is disgusted with the country. Instead
of understanding that the crop was
drowned. he curses alkalI. When the
surface of the ground becomes dry, the
farmer shotlld ayamino hpnnatb tho s,,,r