The silver star., 1897-06-10
WESTERN FARM NOTES.

The new Delta creamery has capacity of
s0o cows.
Delta county shipped 10000 pounds of
white honey last year. increasing the out
put this year by '00oo pounds.
one dairyman in jefferson county. the
venerable John Churches, Is making 3DO
pounds Of butter week from his thirty
five cows. and the product is sold In the
home market at good prices the year round.
I. 4. Felch Of the same county does like
wise and We hear no complaint about hard
times from such men as these.
II Is estimated that IL takes 150 pounds
Of butter at a good market to pay for the
keeping OF one cow. AT standard of per
cent. Of butter fat, that amount Of butter
will require about $500 pounds Of milk.
Therefore. n cow must yield $500 pounds Of
milk to pay her way. In order to have II
fair profit II IL necessary that she yield
something like 5000 pounds Of 4 per cent.
milk.
Shipments of wool to the eastern markets
from Casper, Wyoming. are now being
made by the big flock masters OF central
Wyoming. Train loads have been shipped
by Robert Taylor. ]. ID. Woodruff. Kenneth
Mcdonald aud David Kidd. The wool
business Of the state has never been as
active as during the present season.
Freighters' teams loaded with wool have to
wait their turns In order to unload at the
warehouses.
Home grown vegetables are beginning to
arrive on the Colorado market In large guam
titles and In firstclass condition. The gar
dens around Denver. Pueblo and Colorado
Springs are sending In onions, radishes
spinach. pie plant and lettuce. and good
deal OF this stun IL re-shipped to the noun
tain towns Rocky Ford Is shipping ns.
pnrngus, and Canon city vegetables are
beginning to appear. The short distance
has marked effect on the freshness of tho
shipments and the advantage makes the
sale OF home truck much ensier ut u better
price than produce shipped from California
or the southern growing grounds.-Field and
Farm.
A sheep feeder OF Larimer county writing
| TO Wool Markets and sheep says: "The two
carloads II lambs which I had on the Chi.
cago market averaging seventy-six pounds,
ind which topped the market at 1915. were
bought In New Mexico and weighed upon
arrival here forty.ivc pounds. They were
fed corn md all the alfalfa they could eat.
and were put ON n quarter Of a pound Of
corn and gradually Increased until the last
month. when they consumed about pound
mud hnif each dny. This II about the way
all Fort Collins lambs were fattened this
year. This II the best year we have had
since 1888 for making money. ] think buy.
crs are making fools Of themselves ofRerins
long prices for lambs all over the country
this early In the season. They should tnke
= lesson from cattle feeders one year ngo
The governments forestry planting at tho
State Agricultural College farm In Larimer
county this spring IL quite an Interesting
experiment. The species employed are red
ccdnr. Scotch. pondcrosa and Austrian pine.
Douglas and white spruce. hr. iarch. aspen.
birch. white elm. cataipa and green ash. A
majority Of tho trees nre rnpid growing,
matchmaking kinds. such a. the aspen
and the birch. which will act a. nurse trses
for the slowcr.growing. ionger.iIved vari.
etiss which are expected to become finally
the standard crop. In one instance Arts.
misla has been used ~ the nurse. Alternate
rows arc planted with II, and Alternate
spaces Of the remaining rows. Il thus fur.
ninhes three.fourths Of the stock, In ths
remaining spaces. white elm. Scotch pine
and white spruce follow regularly sxcepI
that every eighth space In every eighth row
n alIs1 by ~ oak.