Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-07-02
W ESTEkN FAkM NOTES.
(From Field and Tarm.)


His plums We're all destroyed and there
will not be bushel of apples on his
place. The crop ordinarily is worth
$1,000 each year.
Some of the farmers of Boulder coun-
ty whose places We're visited by hail
recently have cut their grain for hay.
They could utilize the ground yet by
planting such things as millet. peas
sorghum, turnips or even alfalfa, but
to do this they would have to have the
assurance of plenty of water In the
bitches.
Louis Alecese of Kern county, Cali
fornia, who has been bringing thous.
ands of sheep to Colorado each SUM-
mer for several years past has begun
his shipments for this season and Is
now moving 300 carloads to Colfax
county, Colorado. Besides this he sent
eighty-three carloads to Reno, Nevada.
and this has about depleted Kern coun-
ty of all its available sheep.
In Boulder. Weld and Larimer coul.
ties the threshing engines have been
put to work In practical way pumpin.
water for irrigation purposes and Will
prove good deal OF n factor in saving
crops where there is n shortage of wa.
ter In the bitches. The longer we study
the question of irrigation the more con-
vinced are we that every farmer should
make some provision for pumping wa.
ter in times Of short supply in the
canals.
As soon rs the price of strawberries
begins to fall from an over supply, II
might be good idea to take small
part of the patch, NOW the plants close
down to the ground. allowing the cut
ting to lie on the ground for week.
Then cultivate and water freely and
give the plants the same care given
them in the spring, and we will venture
they will yield crop Of choice fruit
for market during the last Of August
and September instead Of a month Int.
er rs usual.
The state Of Colorado exhibits a more
advanced change from the old range
conditions to a new order Of things thnn
any other OF the rnnge-cattle states, eS.
cepting possibly Kansas and Nebrns.
ka. Under the herd law In those states
cattle owner is obliged to keep his
cattle OF unfenced crops or stand
suit for damages for injury, which
makes the range business at once i'm.
possible. In Colorado small amount
Of range remains on the South Platte.
on the White river In the western part
Of the state; but the streams of Colo.
RADIO have been largely used for irriga.
tion, and the range has been occupied
by settlers to a degree that has reduced
the old range business to very narrow
proportions.
Frank Hall, of Arvadn. Jefferson
county, returned the other day from
Hnhns Peak, passing through the North
and Middle parks cnroute. He kept a
close watch on the cattle of the range
and was surprised to see n predondcr-
ance OF poor slabsidcd stock that show
ed the evidence Of poor crossing and in
this the introduction Of the polled An.
gus blood had created no Improvement
such as was to be seen on every hand
where the Shorthorn top had been em
ployed. He saw the biggest steers with
the signature of the Durham parentnge
and this condition was SO marked that
he returned to Denver better convinced
than ever with the superiority Of the
red and roam blood for the improve
mcnt of our native stock.
In Cache valley. Utah. there are n
number of crcameries which are now
turning out $4,000 n month In butter
and cheese. The wellsville and Mill
vile factories are taking In 10000
pounds of milk day. A new estab.
lIshment is the Diamond NJ. factory Mt
Paradise. All the dairies purchase
milk from the people around, and
| nay for 1t at the rate of seventeen
cents pound for butter fat. A pound
| of butter fat turns out about one and
one-sixth pound Of butter. This gives
the seller from sixty-eight to seventy
cents for 100 pounds for his milk. The
milk is sent to the crcamcries In ten.
gallon cans, the farmers taking week.
ly turns in It's delivery. Each Of the
crcamerics raise and feed hogs with
the skinned milk. making the sale OF
pork n large factor In the profits of the
business. At the price of milk now
paid an average COW will bring to its
owner in earnings about thirty dollars
n year. Butter sells from these dairies
from two to four cents n pound high.
er than the quotations at Elgin, 1llin.
OILS, the great dairy center.
II. Stratton of Larimcr county tells
us how he raised potatoes in n young
apple orchard of four acres. Instead
of blowing. he marked out the ground
with the shoe of an Asplnwall planter.
and then ran n subsoil plow In each
furrow. He then planted with the ma
chine-the pieces seventeen inches
apart. The marking, planting and
seed cost S4T.25. The cultivation and
irrigation cost $21.37. while harvesting.
sacks and marketing cost ST3. or
Sal. .62 In all. There were sold 44.0OO
pounds Mt seventy cents per cwt. or
S3Os for the whole, which means a
profit of S1663S on the four acres. It
was not naturally good potato ground.
The crop thus cost n little over eigh-
t.en cents busfel. Mr. Stratton
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