Gunnison news-champion and tribune., 1905-08-11
STACKING cASm BEssE's HAY CROP
COMMENDABI ENTERPRISE
ON LOVER OHIO CREEK
Some Further Account q ~ anch Industry and the Outlook
for Good c1gb and Fat Cattle

,euis of the morning sun or some
'oihcr pecaiiar feature chat aAapts h
B. vegetables. Mr.. Moore is paming
sn al new lnnces aud has latels
ADDED 22) feet of new sheds. I've
makes a specially of Sbuth1rns aud
~ Is many bull calves % S1athorn
Colara lo ranclmeu at good profit
When Congressman H. NJ llogg
was a Gmnisou attorney in the
early SITS. he iopk up ranch along
thu foot of Flat Top m1autain.
This later passed inio the hands OF
j. NJ Allen and Is now under the
management Of his SON. Ralph Allen.
1t consists Of j2o acres. all bot eight
|or ben under the ditch and ia calti-
walton as hay or pasture the us
sal cut OF hay Is $50 toms. Con
|piderable Is sold loose or fed TO an
|iAals wintered ON the ranch.
Twenty acres are in grain, mostly
|Ests and barley with three acres of
|whest. New bitches are being taken
cat as laterals TO irtigate hitherto
unimproved band. A new chicken
house has recently been built also a
new combination cellar and bunk
house lSx26 feet Ia the back of
the lower story is q log cellar sepa-
rated by Is inches Of air space from
the outer walls, and covered with
dirt. The second story is bunk
house while the chimney allows for
stoves above and below. Talking
with Mr.. j NJ Allen he expressed
the belief that the cellar would be
success, warm in winter and cool in
summer, without the damage from
sub irrigation. Ralph Allen is quite
successful in transplanting ever
greens which will m time become
valuable lawn trees. He Is erecting
new windmill to pump feed water
for the stock.
East of the Allen ranch lies $50
acres owned by Frank Eilebrecht
1t is all under the ditch, but about
half yet 10 he improved. Mr. Ellie
brecht has 80 acres Of hay land from
which he cuts 30 tons Of timothy
and native hay lie is experiment
ing with alfalfa, which appears TO do
especially well ON this mesa land.
BY another year the whole ranch will
be sowed in grass aud bearing to its
full capacity Mr. Eilebrecht keeps
quite a herd Of dairy COWS.
j. L. Wylie raises very little grain
on his 2S0 acre ranch--only five or
six acres-the rest being seeded 90
TIMOTHY. He cuts 400 tons and sells
it regularly for 80 a ton, the small
admixture Of red top and wire grass
making a fine feeding hay The
place has been pretty well improved
with bitches and fences for some
years. but a hydraulic ram has late
lv been installed at the house, and
Mr.. Wiley expects to build a tank
for regular water system. lie has
a new lawn ready TO seed another
season. and will plant trees and
shrubbery Tie Wylie ranch. To-
gether with Camille Besses place,
are a quarte- of a mile Of the main
road reached by a lane running
west.
Mr.. Besse makes a specially Of
hay and harve~ts 800 tons
from POO acres cleared lie has 50
acres yet 20 improve and - acres
lying On the HILL ID is difficult %
keep land seeded in timothy, for red
top and wire grass seem 20 crowd It.
out. Nearly all this tonnage. except
enough for horse feed. Is ba,ed and
sold at SI0a ton. He has recently
built a new barn. 32NJD for storage.
Harvesting the hay crop on the
Besse ranch is well illustrated by
the picture appearing on tins page. /
Continued next week