Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-06-20
WESTERN FARM NOTES.
lFrOm Yield and Farm.)

AoAN~ A>-N
There will be 100000 boxes Of peach
es shipped this season from Fruita,
Mesa County. Most of these goods will
be sold in Denver.
The natural hay crop in Colorado is
going to be heavier this season than
for several years. We do not remem-
ber having seen such gloriously wet
season since 1876.
The Grand Junction people are ar
ranging to make standing fruit ex-
hibit in Denver this fall. the same as
they had last year. 1t will be planted
in the Mining Exchange.
A Boston syndicate of wool mer-
chants has leased the old Bar G ranch
in Wyoming, the other side of the
mountains, and will range 10000 head
of sheep in that country.
The Colorado dairy commissioner is
simply talking through her probosis
when she says there is no bogus butter
sold in Denver. As matter of fact
there is scarcely anything else sold here
on the open market.
The only field crop that is not holding
its own in Colorado this spring Is corn.
1t is yellow in most places from too
much dampness in the way of rain ana
attendant cool weather. A few warm
days, however, would soon bring about
an improvement and corn will be a
good crop after all.
OF the 25OOO head Of sheep fed in
Larimer County the past winter by l..
p. SouthwOrth of this city, 5000 only
were sheared before sent to market.
Those that were sold with the fleece on
were killed in Chicago and the wool
I~l tl,. ,nIt l,xr tla n o.
buying the sheep.
We have so often noticed that under
irrigation we allow our trees to over
bear. Mr.. Coburn of Delta County
forestalled this tendency in his peach
trees by cutting away one-third Of the
limbs recently. He said this was a
good way to thin fruit and make better
peaches. The thinning season is now
here. Why not thin out with hand
saw?
The Union Pacific railroad company
defendant in suit for damages
brought by Sharp & Mcbride of Nephi,
Utah, has just been ordered to pay a
judgment of $4,299.S5 for failing to al
low stoppage in transit of their sheep
sent to the Chicago market last Octo-
ber. They claim that by railroading
the sheep through they suffered loss
and sued to recover damages.
Thus far the outlook for crops in
Colorado is very bright. Doubtless
later in the season irrigation will be-
come necessary in most localities, but
the heavy rainfall of the past few days
will enable the farmers to avoid the ex-
pense of irrigating their fields for some
time to come. A few timely rains dur
ing the latter part of this month and
July would insure good crops in the
rainbelt as well as in the irrigation dis
tricts. These rains cannot, however,
be counted upon with certainty, al
though the weather prophets are pre-
dieting cold and rainy spells until the
end Of the present month, and irriga-
ton after all is the main reliance of the
farmers of Colorado for good crops as
far as success is dependent upon mois-
ture.
A correspondent of this journal now
travelling in northern Utah, says: "The
Bear River Valley is fast coming to the
front as an agricultural country. The
development of the farming industry
has advanced with rapid strides in the
last two years. What was formerly a
great sage brush plain is gradually TAX
ing on the appearance of the older east
ern farming communities. In order to
give some idea of the advance, 1t is only
necessary to take the precinct in which
Corinne is situated, an area of six by
nine miles. There are now under cul-
tivation 1000 acres Of alfalfa, 400 acres
of oats, 900 acres of wheat, eighty acres
of potatoes, 400 acres of orchards, con-
tanning 10000 three-year old trees; five
acres of nursery stock, containing 10O,-
600 trees; about seventy-flve acres Of
or1o t.tx
acres of millet and 200 acres Of timo-
thy; a total of 3,705 acres which lie
within four miles of COrinne, all
brought about by the Bear Valley Ca
nal Company"