Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-07-27
FARM NOTES.
From Field and FarmJ

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TIL. Fort Collins lamb feeders arc
making no move upon the chcssboard
aud will not do 80 until September LIST.
10y which tim. they will conclude
what they desire To do.
g. N. &. wooininn of Sterling. 10.
rnn county. writes: Cattle are doing
well on range. Showers OF the past
three weeks have kept grass In good
growing condition. Though not rank.
u II of sufficient growth and firm
strength To put ON flesh rapidly. max.
Ing stock In such condition that they
Will soon bc ready for the market"
Nineteen ears OF sheep were poison.
al las, week while cn route TO Chlca.
so. They Were shipped from Idaho
and Were In healthy condition mt the
time OF starting. hut the owner stopped
mt Misspuin. Montana. To Erazc and
water them aud was unfortunate
enough to strike n iarkspur range. out
of the nineteen ears hc had hut few
sheep left that were free from the pol.
sou. and most Of them died.
II Is reported that the highest pric.
received FOR wool In Montana for iiyc
years was paid last week Mt Fort Rcu.
ton. According to the story n clip OF
1000 pounds shcat-i 10y Joan Wa.
shcsha was sold ,t ips cents. The
average price Of sale. Mt that point
wns 1srs cents. Buyers from all over
the state had appointed the day 10 60
TO that point TO make purchases and
twenty wool buying houses were rep.
resented. In this way til. buying he
cnmc competitive and this may ac-
count for the higher prices.
This year Of short forage will be
80. ~. a
wich In the alfalfa stack. This IL done
by placing . layer OF straw nnd then
n layer Of rather green alfalfa until
the stack is completed. In this way
the forage comes ont In the winter
having all one color and IL quite as n,i.
tritious nnd fully ns palninblc as the
straight alfalfa. or course one can
not do this until the straw season
comes on, but the last cutting Of alf-
nifa viii come within the time and
the experiment ought to be tried.
Writing from 1.nrimcr county. Mr..
McClclland says: The usual June
drop has pretty well settled the winter
apple crop In northern Colorado. There
will not bc enough fruit grown this
year for home consumption. The trees
nrc not recovering from the winter rs
I hoped they would. Some look better
anu Sthit EV W lut Ubu-
iirc. Alfalfa is not more than three.
quarters Of a crop. although the sec
ond cutting IL promising better than
the first. The grain crop IL not first.
class. and the fact is that grain crops
Of all kinds are poor"
Mrs. Shutc is working very diligcnt-
ly TO get up a fancy exhibition of Col
RADIO fruits during the annual festival
pf Mnnntnfn nnI pIp in fr npny,r tt.
last week In September. While the
time for action Is short and fruit this
season is somewhat limited in extent,
the exhibit viii he fine enough TO at
tract general attention and will bring
forth the praises OF thousands who
come TO our great carnival. The fcs-
tival board has set aside 81 200 for the
horticultural exhibit. and this sum Is
sufficient to secure a very fine cumpct-
tive display. The premium list will
BE- ready TO go out In n few days.
John @. Mnckay. president OF the
Umiah Wool Association. has closed a
lease with the Union Pacific for 13O.-
900 acres OF land near Evanston and
llilliard. Wyoming. and along the
hcndwntcrs of Bear river. Blacks and
Smiths Fork, Summit county, Utah.
this Immense tract OF land lies lust
north of the Gintah forest reserve. and
enables the sheep owners Of Utah to
run their ilocks into tintah county
and thus become partially at least In
dependent of the pasturagc on the for.
est reserves. The Union Pacific land
department has within the past ten
days closed sales and leases. prnci.
pally TO sheep owners In Summit
Weber, Morgan and Rich counties,
Utah. and tiniah county. Wyoming.
OF over u quarter of million acres OF
land. For some time the sheepmcn
have seen the necessity of controlling
their own range and have been buying
land In small amounts here and there.