The silver star., 1897-12-30
WESTERN FARM NOTES.
(From Field and Farm)

The Warren Live Stock Company ol
Wyoming recently sold several thou
sand yearling ewes at 81 head.
Ora Haley. the prominent Colorado
and Wyoming cattle man. suggests the
only feasible plan for making Denver
a great cattle market. His advice is
very simple: Let the farmers of the
state grow grain sufficient to fatten the
range and other cattle. Denver will
soon boast of extensive packing houses
and yards"
In Utah they have very good law
prohibiting the annual slaughter OF
young confer trees for Christmas dec
orations. or for any other purpose for
that matter. and the Field and Farm
would like to see similar enactment
on our statute books. Ii decorative ev-
ergreens are needed lei them be pur-
chased from the nurseries.
Irrigation is the topic with western
: farmers at the present time and the
practical application of it is spreading
in every direction. The farmers in the
| vicinity of Newton. Kansas. are utiliz-
| ing the surface water by damming all
gullies and holding all the water posi-
Bile. This is n cheap as well as good
way to procure irrigation. number
of the farmers have ponds ranging in
size from two to six acres. These
ponds are fed for the most part by
rains. while some are filed by means
of windmills and irrigation wells, but
these are few.
A farmer in Pueblo county wanted a
large and early corn. n variety that
would mature in the high attitudes He
planted three rows of an eight-rowed
yellow corn and one row of yellow
dent. When the tassels began TO ap-
pear he cut Off the tops of the eight
rowed corn. leaving the dent TO pollen
ize the smaller kind. As result he has
distinct variety which is both large
and early. Any one who grows corn in
this country can do the same thing and
thus invent a strain of his own that
will be fully acclimated.
Concerning cattle in Mexico. one of
the best posted cattle men in the coun-
try who has just returned from there.
says: "Therc prevails the greatest
scarcity of cattle this year in Mexico
ever known. 1t is now impossible 10
get a single head from districn from
which thousands We're sent last year.
The reason is that there has prevailed
very severe drouth for several years
previous to this year and there was ne
grass and breeders Were compelled TO
sell off their cows to keep them from
dying and has left the range practical
ly depleted. Cuban buyers have gone
through the country, buying up every
thing that would do to ship
Very few farmers who tried raising
beets in Colorado the past season re-
port that they used subsoil plow or
any other implement for stirring the
soil 10 a greater depth than eight
inches. The result of this is seen In
many of the samples grown. Instend
OF single tap root there are n number
Of small roots; and instead of the beet
growing well under ground 1t extends
so far above ground that nearly one
half of its weight would be useless for
sugar-making purposes. Both these de-
fects can be corrected by deep plow-
ing and subsoiling. II is much better
to do this plowing and subsoilng IN
the fall or early winter whenever the
weather Will permit and the frost is not
deep. We therefore advise all those
who intend TO experiment with sugar
Deets next year or who intend TO raise
them for any purpose, to plow the land
now and be ready to plant as early AS
the season will permit in the spring
We have given these facts before but
we feel the Importance of reiteratiny
them so that all may more fully under
stand them.