Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-01-10
FARMING MATTERS.

winter, all OF which will be available
for this market In the spring. Some
viii 20 for beef. but n large number
Will be taken by corn feeders for short
feed early In the spring.
There werc slaughtered In Chicago
during the past year ..0i5.1po cattle.
lGt. 100 calves. I.Gsi.sG hogs, and j..
:rii 200 sheep. a total OF i3.2..I CO. AMI
mails manufactured Into vast variety
OF foods and other products. The
number IN over u million greater than
In 1900. SURPRISING NIL previous years
In slaughter. and Indicating the n.
markablc expansion Of ChIcnso's pacx.
ine industry.
Joe Foy, the Fort Collins lamb feeder.
was In the city this morning. lie ~
ports having purchased about s.UJ
head more lamb, In New Mexico. which
will bcsdcllvcrcd about the middle OF
January. Northern Colorado IL feeding
lambs, and there will be few Ia 20 To
market before the latter part OF Jan.
uary. They are feeding barley. wheat
and corn. Mr.. Foy IL feeding barley
which he raised himself. and says he
IL getting finc results lie is hopeful
that the market viii advance TO such a
point that the feeders can make little
money this scason.-Dcnvcr Record.
Stockmnn.
8. ]. Palmer. county horticultural ~.
spcctor estimates the values Of the
fruit crop of Arnpaiioc county for 1901
mt $J0O,OO0 During the year bc
has visited G1i orchards. 10 nurseries,
and SaA5 other places where trees arc
grown. u total OF i.G5i. lie has left
SGg notices for spraying Of trees 10
cxtcrminntc pests. He finds that there
are 1.01G acres In fruit bearing orchards
In Arapahoc county. divided ms follows:
Apples. i..S acres; pears. 10 acres;
peaches. 200 acres; plums, - acres:
cherries. ~ acres: blnckberrics, 50
ncrcx: grapes. IS acres: Eooscbcrrics, 30
acres: currInis. !: acres: raspbcrricc.
~ acres: strawberries. l51 acres. Dur
Ing the year lust closed there wcrc
planted 11.OS fruit trees In the coun-
~. most of them apple trees.
Now tim; the census figures OF 1900
are tnbulntcd and can bc studied u Is
isosxiblc to SEE where mistakes have
been made In the matter OF doing the
work. One mistake which should he
taken Into consideration in examining
results Ii tile census OH cnivcs. The
total figures, given arr generally taken
to represent the calf crop Of 1900. but
such is not the ease. The figures simply
show the number OF calves In existence
on June lst of that year. and are com
scqucnt vnluclcss. For instance. Col.
orndo Is shown TO have about 2I0,up
calves. while the number OF cows IL
close TO GOOW0 and the number OF
ycarlIng hclfcrs and steers Is about
100000. The figures OH calves consc-
aucntly mean nothing ns relates TO the
years crop and II can be best nsccr.
tained by comparing the number OF
ycarlings and cows and making allow
nnccs for losscs and slaughter. In TAX
ing the census on the rnngc. the rule
was to report the number OF calves
branded In the spring. and no nllow.
ancc was made for the summer and fall
branding. This accounts for the dis
crepancy.
The International Society Of Agricul.
ture. OF which ]. Sterling Morton OF
Nebraska. is president. and John II.
Brown, of Connersville. Indiana, Sec
retary. is organized to work for the
perpetuation OF forests. In an Inter.
view. while he was I'm Denver, last
fall, Mr.. Brown said: I'VE prefer the
word .pcrpctuation.' to that OF 'prcser-
yation.' We believe In the use OF trees
and of growing trees to supply the de-
mnnds for timber. and Is is this which
we encourage. We have already inter
csted n large number of the prominent
railway companies and shown them
that Il is necessary for them to take
cogniznncc Of the rapidity with which
timber is disappearing and to provide
for the future by instituting forests
4
Grande road, in Utah. under the direc-
tion of General Palmer. who was Mt
the time president, planted fully Co.
600 trees ut Provo. and ut present has
fully hnlf a million trees in various
stages of growth. These are mostly
NIL Catalpas, which makes the best
lumber for every use TO which the
railway companies put timber. The
Colorado 4 Southern has lands in
Texas, where fine forests could be es-
tabllslied without the need of irrign-
ton and the directors are seriously con-
sidering our advice 10 plant trees there.
The Illinois Central will plant n large
tract in Mississippi next spring and n
number OF other eastern railway COM
panies are preparing TO plant their
own timber" Mr.. Brown last year
prepared report for the government
on the dying of pines of the Black
Hills. and says that upon recent tour
he found the same insect at work on
the large pine trees of Colorado. and
that many We're already beginning. to
show the effects of its ravages. The
insect is called the destructive bark
beetle. and its attacks. which are per-
sistent, means death to the finest speci-
mems of the pinus pondcrosa. The
society is also trying to induce the
legislature of the western states to
pass laws sufficiently stringent and
naming n sufficient number. of guards
to prevent the annual forest fires. up
on close estimate" says Mr. Brown.
"it has been found that Colorado alone,
has lost S5O,000,0OO in forest fires in
the last two years. By the expenditure
of n few thousands of dollars in the
right direction, the entire loss could
have been saved and this should be
done. There was never forest fire
which started itself and with the right