Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-08-13
WESTERN FARM NOTES
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The sheepmen Of Colorado are, MS q
class, opposed to taking eight cents a
pound for their wool and are storing It
until after election.
Do not take all the peaches off the
tree at one picking. Successful peach
growers 20 over their trees several
times, picking only the ripest and fine
colored fruit each time.
When harvesting early apples or
pears be very careful. The fruit is ten
der, and next to the stem OF the ripe
fruit the next years fruit bud is form
ing; rough handling may destroy both.
After n good deal of delay In getting
at 1t the Grand Junction people are go
ing to have n fruit day celebration on
September 4th. THIS is the day after
the big watermelon event Mt Rocky
Ford. and it will hustle people greatly
to attend both gatherings. 49, -
This is the first year In which home
grown cherries have been sold In the
Pueblo market In any quantity. They
were cheap and good. The Wragg
cherry is astonishing the few who hap
pened to have 1t. and will be In great
demand for planting next year.
The Delta county people have
opened sales rcpot in Denver for
their splendid fruits and the goods are
arriving In carload lots. This looks
like business and is going to give Delta
county n cinch on the trade.
J. II. Fullenwider, Of Lockett, Rio
Grande county. is growing the Illinois
gray willow OH his tree claims ana
has trees now fifty feet high, which
growth has been In about seven
years. He says these willows make
the finest growth and best windbreak
of any tree he knows that is suitable
for this climate.
Some OF the wool men OF Montana
have grasped the exigcncies OF the
wool question. They propose to SEND
men east with the wool and there sell
II themselves. II IL n well.known fact
that It Is only the large dealers VINO
send agents West and there Is WELL
grounded suspicion that these dealers
have n very thorough understanding
about the price to be paid.
Elwood Easley OF jefferson county II
the best cherry grower around Denver.
His crop OF cherries this year has
reached between $50 and 400 crates,
which brought him 81 crate. He has
eighty trees standing on three-fourths
of nm acre and II will be seen that tho
Income from that patch Of ground II
good. Recently Mr.. Easley put In .
six-horse engine and n pump. which
pumps water to irrigate his orchnni
above the ditch.
After the last cultivation OF corn, 1t
is a good plan to SOW rye between tho
rows. When rains come this Will start
to grow, and by the time the corn ID
cut the rye will make complete mat
OF green. This growth OF rye is linz
portnnt for several reasons. 1t saves
heterogeneous fertility developed In tho
soil by cultivation. 1t makes good fall
and winter feed after the corn is OF.
1t prevents blowing or washing away
of surface soil by winter Winds. Fin
ally, Il leaves the ground In better con-
dItion rs well as by furnishing some
green manure to plow under. helping
the crop that Is to be grown next year.
1t ts said that sheep In Southern
Utah are offered rs low as fifty cents
n head. This Is on account OF short
grass and no place to Craze the focks
the coming winter. One man says he
recently had the refusal OF n band OF
10000 sheep now grazing within twen-
ty miles OF Salt Lake City, among
which were 200 head Of lambs which
would be thrown In free with the
bunch at SLIGO head; also that he was
recently offered several thousand Ore
gon wethers, which would be delivered
to him ut Huntington, Oregon, FOR
S1.5O a head. The average price re-
ceIved by growers for wool In Utah
this season will be about seven and
one-half cents.
A correspondent In the Pecos valley
writes: .In planning farm for hogs
I would advise planting onethird In
alfalfa, one-third in corn. between tho
rows OF which may be planted pump
kins. The remaining third I would d.
vide In two; the first half 1 would
plant to beans or peas. to be followed
by cane. The other half I would de-
vote to sugar bects, artichokes and
sweet potatoes. You cannot have too
varied diet for hogs to keep them In
the best condition. After taking OF
the cane would plant Immediately
to wheat. and would keep this plant
fairly manured. us well us the corn
patch. think we can count on four
pigs to the acre. with manure we
might raise It to six.
The Denver mutton trade Is supplied
through six months of the year by
grass-f fed sheep direct from the range,
and the rest Of the time by old ewes
and wethers that have been fed on al
falfa with little grain. Most of this
Is bought by the butchers at less than
three cents a pound live weight. Just
mt present the market is supplied most
ly from the Olcese focks of 65,000
California sheep now grazing for the
summer In the Ration mountains at the
Colorndo-New Mexico line. and judg-
ing from the meat they yield they are