The silver star., 1897-10-07
WESTERN FARM NOTES.
(rrom Field and Earm.l

Luis wiley and other mountain parks
In the western part of the stale we
learn that the cattle are coming down
from the mountains earlier than usual
and this is taken as an Indication of an
early winter. The feed is good In the
valleys and the cattle appear to be in
good condition.
Several large sales OF sheep were
made Mt Casper, Wyoming, during the
pnst week. The herd of William Kran-
ish, numbering 1880 was sold to Buck
nam Il Desert, the price being $3 for
ewes and eve lambs and 81 for wethers
and wether lambs. Tom Hood sold
5000 head to Daniel Ralston and Vic
tor Cazanovia. Tile price paid was
$3.50 straight.
The hard hail storm which struck
La Porte. Larlmer county last week
did very serious damage to all the
crops and the fruit trees suffered es-
pecial injury. as many of them were
entirely defoliated. The onion crop
was battered down to the ground but
the bulbs were SO nearly full grown
that they will not prove Il total failure,
which is providential from the fact
that onions are the principal crop
grown there.
Henry Glenn of Morgan county Is
having good luck with his Holstein
sheep. Buck yearlings sheared nine
and half pounds and the sample sent
US is all right as to texture and quality.
Ihe Holstein sheep are almost new in
this country. They come from the
province of Holstein in the north of
Germany, which was formerly II por.
tiOn of Denmark and their entry to
America was through some Iowa i'm
pOrters.
large outlet ditch or canal is cas-
lily injured by the deposition of silt
from the mouths of laterals. Not only
is the fall of the ditch injured by the
earth. but weeds grow readily when
the ditch is empty and act as nets to
eaten much refuse material during
high water which would otherwise he
washed out TO prevent washing use
u rectangular box made of boards.
IheSc boxes will last Il number of
years If made of Texas pine or hard
wood. 1t is much easier and cheaper
to rcplace them than it is to clean out
the main ditch.
Weed seed in manure is one great
objection to its use. We know of no
way to destroy such seed except to
will kill the seeds. II this is done,
cover the pile with loan or dry muck,
to absorb the ammonia. or nitrogen
that might otherwise escape. Alany
Colorado men are taking up the matter
of manurial conservation in a serious
way and seem TO realize the fact that
something must be done to save the
fertility of the barnyard refuse One
| of these is Il highly educated English
gentleman of Douglas cOunty--Fred
Flower of Sedalia- whose COW stables
are built on the solid rock which forms
the floors of his two barns. To draw
Off the manure Il drain has been chis-
eled in the solid rock and this drain
way leads to an arroyo across which
dam is to he built for the purpose of
catching and composing the substance
as II comes from the stables and thus
holding 1t until needed on the fields.
There are plenty of farms in the
West that have lot of little detached
buildings, which. If suitable plan
had been adopted mt the start. would
have grown into II good barn. Tool
house, stables. cribs, granaries etc.
are scattered around till it looks like
IL small village. yet the hay is stacked
out of doors to be carried with fork
To the various buildings, often In wind
and storm. A work shop IL of prime
necessity: one 14X2O is about right.
and should have good carpenters
bench and wise with tools enough to
build small house. Saws. squares.
planes. hammers. level. cOmpasses.
some chisels. n set of bits, etc. with u
good assortment of bolts; u little anvil
with Iron wise. punch. copper rivets and
the like, for mendlng a sudden break
or rip In the harness. The farmer
should not be Observation-Disclosures. but
he should he so equipped that n sud-
den trIfling accident will not send him
pounding the road to town or stop the
work.
There is often big money TO be made
In special crop and not infrequently
some enterprising farmer makes II
stake by going Mt the business In the
right way. At Fowler. Otero county.
Nelson Bowen had one acre In arti-
| cl0kes. He estimates the yield at -
800 bushels and az he has l,een offered
n dollar n blishel for the crop for seed
he certainly hns u bonanza In the little
patch. The great terror of many good
people thnt they will take the farm IL
n slander on this Innocent plant and u
great hlndrance to It's general culture.
Many farmers admit their good quail
tiles. while the evil tendencies ntirlb-
utcd to them do not exist. Artichokcs
grow only from tubcrs and blossom In
September. II not allowed to bloom.
they Will not make iiIl,ers anu there
fore cnnno, grow the following yenr. II
destroyed ut amy time after the old tu-
bcrs have decayed and the new ones
not yet formed. from Mny to Septem-
ber they will not come up tho next sea
son. Mr.. Bowen's crop IL simply prodi
gious and IL probably the best money
acre ever grown In Colorado.
]. w. Bennett OF LnrImer county.
the pioneer In the shecp-fcedIng indus
try Of that section. Inns decided To feed
cattle ns well ns sheep this season. lie
says: "Our feeders Will commence re-
ccivIng their sheep about mex, week.
They have been moving little slowly