Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-05
.fhsTERN FARM NOTES.
u,roln Field and Farm.)

tl'roln Field and Farm)
Boulder's strawberry crop this yeaf
was double that Of last year.
The demand for New Mexico lambs Is
going to he greater than the supply TINS
fall
Mutton sheep of all grades on the Den
yer market are quoted at $3.50 per cwt'
his week.
The stockmen of Texas are going to
-om!ng winter.
The corn-belt sheep buyers have ap
prared in Southern Colorado and are
clad TO pick up anything with wool on
II.
Nearly all the Colorado wool clips
nave been disposed Of, either by sale or
consignment, while n few clips have
been stored at the expense Of the grow
Pr.
Sheep store up In additional weight
., pet cent of the dry food consumed,
and cattle only 8 per cent. This Is why
mutton can be grown cheaper than
beef.
A prominent Mexican wool grower Is
purchasing 5C0 Merino rams from
breeders in the states. There Is plenty
Of room for improvement In the native
sheep OF Mexico.
The work on the rev ere amery ut La
mar, Prowrrs county. began this week.
The plant is being put in by the keyes
brothers and will have capacity OF 7O0
| pounds of butter daily.
p. L. Flannigan, OF Reno, Nevada,
| ihi, wool, cant forty carloads Of fppliuC
| sheep TO the Chicago market. This II
| said to be the most westerly conslgn
ment of sheep ever sent to Chicago.
NJ. II. Brown, n sheep buyer repre-.
| schting Nebraska feeders, has Just pur.
chased train load of lambs in the
| lower end of the San Luis valley and
about cleaned up everything in thai
| section.
Dead grasshopners introduced on the
| big farm Of Henry II. Miller, of Lari
mer county, killed the native cicada by
the thousands and Mr.. Miller consider
the inoculation theory perfectly prac
tical and effective. If disease will kill
the hoppers we have no cause for fear.
Come of the Mormon shepherds are
| shipping their sheep out of Utah. send.
| ing them to the Chicago narket rs NUT
| and Israel Hunsakcr of Box Eldel
county sent 1900 head of sheep to Chi.
cago. The bishop says that the way
prices stood last week they could clear
50 to $3.50 heal, a net gain of over
$4,000 on the lot.
In raising apples Colorado has made
time 1t is yrected that the state will
! produce enough apples to supply the
home teiiland. This means that the
croI. will reIcl, The big total of 10000
barrels. Apples are now coming in from
| Canon City and Grand Valley. The
great Denver and Northern Colorado
crop will follow. The Eastern market
| will regulate the price, but 1t is pre-
dIcted that good winter fruit will not
get below $3.50 barrel at wholesale.
The Pecos valley, Id sdutheastern
New Mexico, is being reclaimed by
means of the most extensive irrigation
system in America and among the
greatest In the world. The largest OF
the two principal reservoirs is nine
miles long and three wide, submerges
| 5000 acres and has a caiuclty Of co..
00O,O0O,000 gallons This is the seco1ld
largest reservoir in the world, the larg
est being on the Periar river, In India
and forming-a part of the great Indian
| irrigation works constructed by the
British government Another reservoir
in tile Pccos valley submerges 1,OOC
acres and has capacity of 2,25O,OOO.
600 gallons. The water is distributed
by network Of main canals and main
laterals aggregating twelve hundred
miles in length. These canals will
ultimately cover 100000 acres of land
OF high average fertility and capable Of
producing bountful crops of all the
standard productions of the temperate
zone, with fruits rivalins those grown
in the most. favored portions of oul
land. The settlement of this great val
ley, which will in few years afford
homes and a competence for 10000 fam
llics, Is proceeding most satisfactorily
! The settlers are mostly Americans
principally well-to-do farmers from the
central west, who recognize the fact
that irrigated lands with an ample and
unfaillng water supply must become the
most valuable of any farming or horti
cultural lands that lie beneath the sun.