Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-04-14
FARM NOTES.
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mt n creamery next winter than those
fed on alfalfa or other feed.ns the beets
produce finer quality which requires
no butter color.
The American Cattle Company of
this city has sold Its New Mexico herd
in Socorro county, numbering 1000
head Of stock cattle, TO Thomas Ash
ton Of Yuma county in this state. de-
livery to be made this spring. The
company was forced to sell out In New
Mexico on account of the serious deprc-
dations of rustlers, which made their
business unremunerative.
There is something of boom on In
Colorado this spring IN the way OF
building creameries, skim stations and
cheese factories. Among the new ones
to go in Is one at Brush, Morgan county.
and one In Douglas county between
Castle Rock and SedalIa. J. L. Bos-
tick is establishing cheese factory n:
| Stamford, Las Animas county. The
new creamery ut Holyoke. Phillips
county, Is under construction and there
are others.
A new and destructive orchard pest
has made Its appearance in Kansas
and Missouri, and is called the fringcd-
| wing npple-bud moth. 1t is increasing
rapidly. infestlng new orchards and
promises to be most Difficult, pest to
combat, owing to It's habits. l; must
be sprayed early with bordeaux mix
ture and paris green combined. One
pound of pure green and two pounds
of fresh lime should be added to every
200 gallons of the bordeaux.
Planting operations In Colorado are
lighter this spring than for several
years past. The largest single planting
probably is Frank Crowley's 1GO acres
| In Prowers county. The fifty-acre
cherry orchard of Evans & Son in
Larimer county Is the heaviest opera
tion In the northern part of the state.
The western slope will witness mere
~ nominal planting with no large set
tings anywhere. The idea seems to
prevail that we have now put out
| about all the trees tha; the occasion de-
mands.
Everybody in Wyoming has gone
wild over sheep prospects. The price
$3.50 n head In II year and are held by
owners at SO for ewes. AS Casper NJ.
l.. Bishop and Marion +. Wheeler have
each made the purchase of n flock of
2,3O0 sheep from Lewis A. Gnn:z. pay
Ing s. head, being Of all ages and
only about seventy-five per cent.
breeding stock. l. l.. Gantz also
bought 1000 more from l.. a. Gantz
for s. head. George Voorhees, of
Cheyenne recently made trip through
the southern portion of Carbon county,
along the Colorado Wyoming line and
reports sheep losses of the past few
months to have been unprecedented in
that locality.
The sheepmen are gradually absorb
ing the old cattle ranges In many parts
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state. pool of four iockmasters from
Rawllns. Wyoming. have leased the
Camfield ranch of $1,000 acres and will
soon bring In their flocks. Four other
sheepmen have secured range on Crow
creek In the same county. and some of
the local men have been buying more
sheep. In Wyoming some masters have
purchased the 2-rnnch. comprising
| several thousand acres OF patented
hay land in the Bates Park region of
Laramie county. This was for years
the home of the Swan Land and Cattle
Company. Other big deals are pend
| Ing, and the tread of the sheep will
soon resound where for years only
hoofs and horns were seen.
1t is n common practice among nma-
teurs and some professionals who SOW
seed of various kinds indoors or In hot
beds. whether the soil Is moist or not.
to water II Immediately after sowing.
| This practice Is n mistake. If the soil
in which the seeds are sown Is moist at
the time of sowing do no; water. as the
] soil becomes stiff and forms a crust on
the surface. which prevents the seeds
from pushing through. After sowing
the seed in any soil. except an cX-
tremely dry one. wait n day or two he
fore watering until the soil dries up
| Al
Il fine sprinkler sufficiently to mos.en
the soil moderately throughout. which
will suffice until the soil shows signs
of drying again. DO not give Il little
sprinkling every day. This only makes
| the case worse. If in garden culture
the beds should he made so as to irri-
gate laterally that the moisture may
arise from beneath by capillary at
| traction.
There Is certainly money in fruit
growing when the business is conduct
ed along the proper lines. but which.
unfortunately, is not always the case.
Captain c. II. Tibbetts Of Newcastle.
Garfield county. last year gathered 900
bushels of Early and Late Richmond
cherries from two acres. los trees to
the acre, six TO eight years old. They
sold for S1.SOG gross. He also gath
cred $500 bushels of pears from six
acres of land and shipped one carload
to Chicago. where they sold at an aver
age price of 50 for forty-two-pound
boxes. Tile varieties We're Flemish
Beauty. Bartlett. Kruws Winter and
Louise Bonne de Jersey. Mr.. Tibbctts
has 103 acres planted to orchard in
the spring of 1850. In 1897 his apricots
bore 1000 bushels of fruit. In apples
he favors the Grimes Golden. Rome
Beauty, Jonathan, White Pcarmain.
Rhode Island Greening. Baldwin and
Ben Davis. One White Pearmain tree
nine years old the past year. yielded
seven barrels. of apples.
A Douglas county man named w. 4.
| Lambert irrgatcs II 2O0-acrc orchard
containing nearly $1,000 trees In Il
rather unique manner. In the year
1Sa5 tubular well was bored. 920 feet