The state herald., 1895-11-22
WESTERN FARM NOTES
frrom Field & Tarm.l

last week bought 100 head OF hatiVe
steers at $34 head.
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.
A large shipment of sheep, 1900, 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
Ia 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 net
ual supply Buyers prefer Colorado eggs
but do not always get them. although
the price is no object to the most Of
them.
O. Il. 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 & Rio Grande and went TO the feed
lots of Nebraska.
II. NJ. Porter of this city has just soil
1900 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
md will he nut onto corn.
A lot of Utah sheep belonging to ]. 7.
dollhouse, j. NJ. Jensen, Jr., and +.
Allen of Brigham City, sold In Kansas
City last week. Muttons of 10S pounds
brought $3.70; 100 pounds $2.S5. and
1,S00 sixty-nine pound lambs $3.25.
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
us 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 Little,on, Arapahoe county,
and Ill operate 1t from this time on. This
Is the plant that was established n year
or so ago by ]. p. Riley of Petersburg.
Nearly 100000 feeding lambs, mostly
from New Mexico. have arrived ut Fort
Collins this fall and have been placed
on the alfalfa farms of Larimer county
for fattening. These lambs Will consume
nearly 10000 tons of hay besides great
quantities Of grain.
Chris Hopple of Roam creek in Mesa
county, this season raised $50 tons OF
potatoes, besides 5000 bushels of oats, n
large amount OF alfalfa and other truck
He sowed $50 pounds of Lincoln oats Oh
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 lnst,-
tute about the middle of December and
the programme is now being made up.
This is the ticket. Organize assoca.
tons and hold Institutes. 1t will 20 a
long way in educating fruit growers in
better methods
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 nj.
falfa and grain to them until some time
In the winter. when they will ship them
10 the Eastern markets for mutton.
Sugar beets grown for stock feeding
purposes are selling on the farms around
Denver at $3.I5 ton and ought 10 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 CROWN,
season.
A correspondent In Delta county says:
I'VE are rubbing our trees with lime.
We ind II sure preventive for rab.
bit-gpawIng and Is easily applied. II
does the tees no harm. Last spring
washed some trees with soap and lye
that had had blood put OH them las,
season. but saw no difference between
these and those we did not wash"
Two trains OF Mexican cattle belong.
Ing to n i,an named Burke went 10 Chi.
cago the other day under a $1,000 bond
10 again pass inspection at Chicago, be.
cause of an alleged under valuation n,
the border. Two trains more are at the
border for the same man. but there
seems 10 be clash between the secrr.
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 drpre.
datlons In that part OF the country.
They sneak into chicken houses and
wiring the Decks OF chickens. leaving the
heads In the houses. Several farmers In
his nelghborhood have suffered Ia this
way lately. one man losing all he had.
The thieves are said TO 90 In wagons
from Denver and sell the chickens here.
An Eastern farmer went into the Si.,
Luis valley year ago. rented farm of
100 acres. and put In a crop last spring.
He proposed To do lrrlgating after hls
own Ideas and ignored the advice and
experience OF oldtime farmers. irrlga.
lion was done nearly every day. and on
part OF his crop he had as much as great
quantities OF water standing for days,
lie made failure and thrcshed very III,
Tie more Than the seed planted. Now h.
II Disguised with the country. Instead
OF understanding that the crop wa.
drowned. he curses alkal. When tho
surface OF the ground becomes dry. ,he
farmer should examine beneath the sur.
face aud see II moisture Is necessary
M more water than Is actually required
should bc run over the crop.
In writing about the growing OF mul
berry trees In Otcro county Frank Crow
ley says: "fhls tree Is grown mainly
for Mlnhhrenks md 10 furnish fnnd IA,