The Monte Vista journal., 1897-06-05
WESTERN FARM NOTES.

The new Delta creamery has capacity Of
so COWS
Delta county shipped 5000" pounds OF
white honey last year, Increasing the out
put this year by ;1vD pounds.
one daIryman In jefferson county. the
venerable John Churches, is making ~
pounds Of butter week from his thirty
i've cows aud the product Is sold In the
home market at good prices the year round.
/. r. Fclch of the same county does like
wise and We hear no complaint about hard
times from such luen a. thee.
II is estimated that II takes iio pounds
of butter at a good market to pay for til.
keeping of one COW. Al standard Of per
cent. Of butter fat. that amount II butter
will require about 2.Jp pounds Of milk.
Therefore. a COW must yield a.J"r pounds Of
milk TO pay her way. IN order 10 have a
fair profit It 1. necessary that she yield
something like 5000 pounds of per c~s;.
milk
shipments of wool to III. eastern markets
from Casper, Wyoming, Hr" now being
made by III" big flock masters "f central
Wyoming Train loads have been shipped
10y Robert Taylor. J, u, Woodruff, Kenneth
Mcdonald aud David Kidd The wool
business Of the state b.. never been AZ
Frcightcrs' teams loaded with wuol hav. to
wait their turn, Ia order u unload at th,
warehouses,
Home grown vegetables are beginning TO
arrive on the Colorado market la larsc duan.
titles and In tr,t-clhss condition, The gar
den. around Denver, Pueblo aud colorado
Spring, are sending In uninn., radish.s.
spinach. pie plant aud lettuce, and suoi
deal nf this stun I. =. shipped to the noun
tain town. Rocky Ford u shipping a.
paragu- and Canon city vegetables are
b.siunln. 20 appear, The short ii-tanc"
la. a marked effect on the frr-hn".. of ia.
shipments and th" adyantar" makcs the
sal. OF home truck much easier at better
pfie, than produce shipped FROM California
or tn. southern growing sfuuud..=licii and
Farm
The government. forestry planting nj the
State Agricultural College farm In l.afim-r
county tbi. sprus j. quite pn interesting
experiment. The species employed ar" red
cedar, Scotch, pund"rp.A aud Austrian pine,
Douglas and white spruce Mt, larrh. aspen.
birch. white elm, eatapn aud green a.h, A
majority of the tree. ar. rapid growing.
light demanding kinds, such u. the aspen
aud tn. birch. which Will act a. nurse trees
for the slower growing. louE-r,liS-i ,ari.
.ti.- which Are expected to become nnaily
the standard crop, In one Instance Ar,.-
ml.ia bs. been used q. the nurse Alternate
row. are planted with II, and alternate
space. Of the remaining rows, II thus FUR
ni.hr. three fourth. of the stock, In th,
remaining spaces. white elm, scotch pin.
aud white .pruc, follow regularly except
that every eighth space IN every eighth ro~
|. nlicd by at oak,
Tn. rain belt experiment station at Cb-y'
enp- Wells. In the extreme eastern edge Of
Colorado, aud In the very heart ~ the dra,
-rt. I. doing y grand work In the direction
Of n.crrinining the varieties ~ various farm
crop. which do best under semi arid .obdi.
tom. Al present Professor Payne, tn.
man In charge, 4. conducting. experiment..
along thrr" lines. To mud plants tha, viii
produce profitable crop. with no greater
rainfall than the average he 10 testing trb
varieties of seeds. among which ar. thirty
eari.tl-. ~ the Australian salt bushes aud
other plant. from III. arid regions of that
country. two vnri-iie. u wheat from the
strpp.. Of northeast Russia. one from .outh.
sru France. barley from N.paui. at tho foot
Of the llimnlnyas In northeast India; and
at least two score varieties of wheat, oats,
rye and barley from the experiment sta.
tions In North nnd South b~kotr and Mani.
toba that have been tried IN tho DIR uplands
there aud have promised to b. profitable
under conditions similar to those which pre-.
vail on the opiands ~ eastern Colorado.
s"cond. TO nDd trees that will make n snf.
ncirni growth 20 serve ~ wihsibf-nL.. and
also 10 study the effects II stiinu,Ai wind.
breaks on the evaporation " moisture from
the soil protected by them. The trees hs
Will experiment with this year are 4 wild
olive aud nn artrhis,s. or giant sAx. brush.
from the trat strpprs In northeast Itussia
They grow there under conditions very sim.
iisr TO ihos" that prevail here. large enough
10 form excellent wiud bsssks.