The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-22
FARMING MATTERS.
Notes from Field and Farm.) !

X Is estimated that 100 carloads Of
sheep and lambs Will be shipped out
OF the Durango region In southwestern
Colorado within the next six or eight
weeks. The woods are full OF buyers
from the corn country.
Robert Misklmmon Of Wyoming has
purchased 1000 head Of the Hecht cat
tie ON the Laramie plains NJ $:s1 a hend.
The Carey Bros. OF Route county
have purchased 1000 head OF steers In
New Mexico. II Is mid that they are
going ont OF the blootle,l horse business
entirely, and will put much money into
cattle.
The Curtis Bros. OF Colorado City.
Texas. have just purchased the H
ranch In Union county. New Mexico,
for $4,000. The ranch has 1900
head of cattle upon the ranges. The
company headquarters are located OH
the head OF the Staked Plains back
from the breaks Of the Pecos. The
nearest postofiice ls Mt the Bell ranch.
The property was originally known as
the McBroom ranch.
The Fort Collins sheep feeders have
learned that they can get no cOnces-
sions from the railroads and this means
a great falling off In feeding this sea-
son. The increased rates from the
principal shipping points In New Alexi-
co to the Missouri river under the new
order will be as fellows. From Trim
chera. 1892; Clayton. $12.25; Folsom,
S103j. There seems to he no prospect
of obtaining any concessions from
these rates.
Fall plowing. especially OF adobe land
for sugar beet cultivation. should be
extensively prncticed. If the ground Is
in poor physical condition. leave 1t
thrown up rough without narrowing.
that the clods may he acted upon by
SHOWS and frosts and pulveriZcd. The
water, instead of running Off the sur
face, can sink into the soil and be
saved. Fail blowing will destroy the
larvae of many injurious insects. in
cluding the caterpillar that has done
so much damage in Mesa county this
year. An adobe soil which is in good
condition should have some cover crop
growing on it.
We have been asked for ration suit
ed 10 IL dairy COW in full milk by using
such feed stuff rs alfalfa. sugar beets
and grain. y proper feed would be
twenty or twenty-five pounds of the
hay. fifteen pounds of the beets and
five pounds of corn meal. Ground bar
ley or bran could be substituted ut
times for the corn meal is so desired,
but in any event it would he better to
begin with three pounds OF the grain
and run up to five pounds in two or
three weeks time. Tie alfalfa hay Is
most valuable when fed in this way as
OF the other feed stuffs.
y man in Montrosc county knows
how to pluck and market apples. He
treats his apples as If they were Jew
els, his trees are tended with the great
est care. He employs experienced and
careful men. His fruit is picked by
hand as fast as it ripens. The perfect
apples are wrapped in paper and
packed In boxes. which are sent to cold
store houses and kept In an even tenn
perature of about 40 degrees until the
market is favorable. Then they are
shipped to Chicago, New York. st.
Louis, and other cities. There is al
ways demand for them. both mt home
and abroad, and some years the crop
has brought as much as $4,000. more
than half of which is profit.
The Akron cattle pool has sold for
October delivery 10 Kansas and Ne
brnska buyers 1000 head of feeders all
one and two-year-old steers. The
prices realized will be from $3.50 to
S4.25 per 100 pounds. These comprise
two distinct purchases of the pool
eighteen months. .since-stock. from Ari-
zona and New Mexico and stock from
the far western ranges. The southern
steers will weigh out in October at
from 700 to 500 pounds, while the west
ern steers will run from 500 to 1,300
pounds. Next years marketing of the
pool will be OF native one and two
year-old steers, pulling the scales ut
from 500 to LOO pounds. This years
calves are selling freely on the Akron
ranges Mt from SIG to SIS head
P. l. Bonebreak of Topeka. Kansas
Is forming an association to protect
dealers in live stock from swintilers.
Mr.. Bonebrcak Is president of the Cen
tral National Bank at Topeka. and has
been an officer OF the National Bank
eis' Association, which is to form the
model for the new organization. His
plan is to form a protective association
of cattlemen and bankers who lend
money on stock. He purposes an ar
rangement with the Pinkerton detec.
tive agency. whereby that organization
will be paid by the association for
catching and securing the conviction
of cattle swindlcrs. The organization
will be composed of the dealers in
Kansas City, Chicago Omaha. 81.
Louis and st. Joseph. There are about
LOCO OF them who will join. A thou
sand banks handling cattle paper will
also Join.
The horcliound plant of the eastern
states has appeared in the wheat fields
Of the Rocky Mountain region. 1t will
be n surprise to some that this plant is
placed among our worst weeds and