Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-11-14
WESTERN FARM NOTES
(From the Field and FarmD

L hS CheuIutSS Vi STilll VIII he tllH
cause of more choice beef on next
springs market than for years past.
Hawley Brothers have five acres of
cabbage at Fort Collins this year and
are shipping by the carload to Laramie.
Wyoming.
Greeley county, Kansas. irricators are
running their pumping plants AMI
soaking the ground so that 1t will be in
blowing condition in the spring.
II. A. Chisholm of Del Norte, Rio
Grande county, does not claim to be the
largest grower of potatoes in the state
but he has harvested 2OO.OOO pounds
this year.
A Douglas county farmer lost some
good calves last week from alfalfa bloat.
A trocar would have saved this loss and
no one who owns Il COW anl an alfalfa
field can afford to be without this useful
instrument.
There are n great many potatoes still
In the ground in some parts of the state.
Growers are waiting in hopes Of some
Improvement in the market price which
at several points is rs low as twenty
five cents a hundred.
Mich cows may be fed with ndvant-
age as much as twenty-five pounds Of
sliced potatoes day; If n greater
weight than this is fed the potatoes will
have an unfavorable influence OH the
quality Of the butter produced.
During the past summer ten modern
creamery plants have been established
in Utah and all now in successful op-
Grafton. The creameries there are now
doing a business exceeding 100000 u
month or more than $1,2OO.0OO year.
The artesan wells of the San Luis
valley are frequently utilized for supply
ing fish ponds and lakes. The warm
water at the flow and the cool water
at distance from the well give the fish
a choice of temperature wherein they
may live.
Mesa county orchardists are alarmed
at reported presence of numerous In
sects on the fruit trees. This matter
should receive prompt attention and the
pests extermlnated during the winter or
they will appear increased thousand
fold in the spring.
Sufficient sugar beats have been dug
this season in the Utah beet district to
show that the tonnage is keeping up
fully as well as was anticipated would
be the case. The mills are now receiv-
Ing and storing the bulk of the crop.
which will be worked up during the
winter.
A Jefferson county horticuturist says
he is looking for u location for a good
sized fish pond in which to raise carp to
be used us a mulch in grape culture.
Having had experience with fish mulch
in the eastern Concord districts he
wishes to see what can be done with 1t
in Colorado.
A Weld county farmer reports
pumpkin this season of eighty-one
pounds. He says that by feeding a
pumpkin on milk, that is, cutting of
the vine to which the vegetable Is at
tached, leaving vine-length of three
feet and placing the severed end Of the
vine in bucket of milk daily, he can
make a pumpkin weigh 1875 pounds.
Hon. ]. b. McAfee. who has a fine or
chard near Topeka, Kansas, from which
he has for many years realized profit
able returns, furnishes the following as
the List he would select II he were plant
ing a new orchard of 600 trees: One
hundred Lowell, 100 Grimes Golden
Pippin, 100 Jonathan, 200 Rayle's Genet,
so Winesap, so Striped Sweet Blush,
$50 Ben Davis, so Maiden's Blush, so
Red Romantic, 100 Missouri Pippin, so
Red June.
The Pingree plan of potato patches
for poor people on vacant lots within
the city limits was tried in Denver last
year with reported success. Forty-four
persons took advantage of the city's Of
fer and produced crops from twenty-five
acres Of an estimated value of $1,000.
The total cost to the county for plowing,
seed and superintendence was $193.
The scheme will be enlarged next year
and opened to the class of poor who are
dependent on the county, wholly or par
TALLY, for support.
Range cattlemen went out to the fall
in Colorado this year with
more heart in their work than they have
had since 1885. The high rich grass
hides the bones Of starved cattle and ma
ture seems to grin at her successful way
of settling the problem Of overstocking
by killing off surplus cattle. There Is
now abundance of range for the stock
in the state and 1t will be many years
before the foolhardy practice of making
a range carry 5000 head that can main
tain only 1000 prevails again.
Hen products are high in Colorado this
season. Fresh ranch eggs are almost
and prices range from
thirty-five cents for the kind like
Caesars wife down to twenty-five cents
for ordinary stock. Good fowls also
bring stiff prices. Colorado hens are
seemingly on a strike as to laying but
1t is notorious fact that this state Is
obliged to ship in eggs all the year.
Poultry farms near the cities and min
ing towns easily dispose of eggs to regu-
lar customers at fixed price for all sea-
sons.
A lawsuit that Is attracting much at
tention among sheepmen whose fiocks
range In the western part of Wyoming
Is one that has grown out of an alleged
trespass Of sheep upon railroad lands.
1t Is understood that this Is to be a test
suit and upon Its issue will be based the
future action of the railroad people in re-
gard to the use of government grant
lands by sheepmen. Some time ago the
Union Pacific Land and Cattle com-
pany wau organized and from the rail-
road it leased and purchased in the
of 100000 acres of land
with the understanding that the owners
of fiocks that have ranged over the dis
tricts involved should have the right to
either purchase or lease the land for a
term of years. At first the sheepmen
looked with some favor upon the propo-
stion and then they came to the conclu-
sion that 1t was simply scheme Of the
railroad land department and they de-
clined through their regular OrganiZa-
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