Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-12-07
FARMING MATTERS.
Note. Prom Yield .nd S.rm.

sheep holdings and business Of John u.
Law In Weld county. this state. The
purchase includes 5000 sheep OF se-
lected breeds and the ranch buildings,
lands AMI range rights Of Mr.. Law.
Don J. Nestor Ortiz OF ConeJos coun-
~ has 5000 stock sheep. The wool
OF this years clip. together with that
OF last year. amounting to 10000
pounds, has just been sold mt l5h.
cents per pound. He evidently put In
some purchased wool To make the ag-
Ercsntc NO large. as .O.O0D Mexican
sheep would scarcely shear such an
amount, even In two seasons with two
clips each year.
All cattle feeders In the far West are
especially thankful during these days
OF extended blessings and n short hay
crop, that the autumn has thus far
been 80 line ana open as 10 require but
little if any feeding. In most cases
the hay stacks have not been approach
eel and this means n saving of nearly
Two months supply OF feed stuffs.
which In itself Is nm Item calculated Ia
tlinw out u good unicrbit OF thankful.
Hess.
The Greeley potato growers are nj
ready casting about for new seed with
which To plant next seasons crops. An
agent has been Ia Wisconsin ncHotiat.
Ing FOR suitable seed OF preferred vnri-
ciics aud comes home after two weeks
Of frniticss search with the ,iIsconrag ging
report iSnt the crop there IL runty. rot.
ten nnd very had. "a that S.-i must bc
secured from some other source. East.
crn dealers who can supply spni seed
by the carload or even by the tralnload
can iind all kinds OF buyers by advcr-
tising In III. Field nnd Farm. the only
agricultural Journal In the Rocky
Mountain rcIion where the real Irish
lemons nrc grown.
Some feeders Of lambs claim that
they can take them In January or even
February. put them ON alfalfa nnd corn
and 10 better thnn with sheep started
In the fall. The argument II that the
earlier lambs arr still growing quite
rapidly and much OF the feed IN wasted
In promoting. growth which otherwise
might bc applied 10 the making OF
fat. u thing that counts on the weigh
scales. This II one reason why Ne
braskn feeders prefer the Coiswoid
lambs from Utah. Thcs. sheep seem
To have attained their first growth by
this time OF year and when they go
on corn they begin taking on IN, at
once without making further structural
growth.
Thanksgiving Il over and II l. now
time To lay In n good soaking OF water
for the winter protection OF orchard
trees. The fall has been dry. open anh
generally devoid Of moisture. and
while these things have assisted nature
In the complete ripcning OF wood
growth they have also acted adversely
la, tai vitality
OF evaporation. II Il the winter
drouth that kills and trees must go
into their hibcrnal slumbcr with wet
feet II they would come out In prime
form In the spring. One or two subsc-
pucnt winter wcttlngs may In ndvis-
able II the weather should continue
dry and parching. as II II quite apt
To h. In any event. turn on the
water now ana start right.
II Is customary In Europe. especially
In Germany. to guarantee certain
proportion OF pulp To each farmer who
IL n shareholder In beet sugar
factory. as part compensation for his
bects. and to pay other farmers not
receiving pulp somewhat higher price.
approximately Is cents a ton. The
shareholders contract to furnish the
bcrts from u certain area. and can de-
pend upon receiving pulp In proportion
to this acreage. The beet pulp Is In
such demand that farmers not share.
holders contract to supply certain
acreage of bccts and are then also sup.
Piled pulp as part compensation. The
beneficial effects OF pulp feeding are
shown In the fine condition OF beef and
dairy cattle on the beet farms.
In several portions of southern Colo
III.
sowing wheat all fall even up TO the
first OF the present month and this
rather unusual procedure seems ration
al enough on account OF the rcmarka-
bly, warm and open autumn with which
we have been blessed: but the question
arises In our mind as to how this grain
il going to turn out. II Is surely too
late now to expect termination OF the
seed and the winter winds may blow
most OF II out OF the ground. especially
In case OF light snow fall and insuiiic-
lent freezing OF the soil during the win
ter. We believe better results would
have come from September planting.
and this is matter which we must
study quite closely In the future.
The vine rust OF the cantaloupc in
Otcro county and other parts of the Ar
kansas valley is growing annually 70
such an alarming degree as To beconc
n menace. and observing men are quite
apprchensivc concerning the danger
that threatens. Some of the more pro-
grcssivc ones have been using all kinds
Of sprays to no avail and science has
not yet suggested the first theory of re-
lief. One grower tells Field and Farm
that he proposes to try some mixture
for the soil and will experiment first
with gypsum on the hypothesis that The
disease germs incubate in the ground
and may he overcome by the use of cal.
carcOus or other caustics. II Is also
necessary to burn all the dnid vines
and weeds to prevent the spread of the
disease. the spores living over winter
spores readily float In the air. attach.
Ing themselves TO the plants in the