Gunnison news-champion., 1907-12-20
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Cho,ce favor u the marked char
ac,erIs;,c Il Colpraio fed mea.
whether # be beef. mutton, pork o.
poultry The leeds used IT, isttes
animals IN Colorado are the leeds
which produce ,he huee, flavor IN
meat tina, u Is possible Ia secure.
4, the Colnrsdo Agricultural col
ieee last winter, purk from the fSn
worth hog. iattened on Colorado
grown barley, aud shorts. was pro-
nouDeed by all who tasted It 10 have
the most delicious flavor Of any that
they had ever eaten.
The Denver packers stale that
pork irDm hogs grown and fattened
on C0lorai1 feeds Is Tar superior to
cornied pork IA quality and flavor,
beng a. mach superior IN these re
specis as the nation from Colorado
fed lambs. which is rated IN the
markets of the nited States as the
best produced.
All tillable sections Of Colorado
can produce good pork cheapl, In
the irrigated alfalfa SECTIONS, alfalfa
pasture viii produce 800 TO 1900
pounds If pork each year from An
acre The grain feed for these sec
lions j. barley and IN 1896 the aver
age Yield Of barley in the Fort Col
lins district was over 1000 pounds
per acre, sufficient to produce over
500 pounds OF pork: Barley pro-
duces an exceptionally fine flavor in
pork. 80 does alfalfa, and the two
combined make choicer flavor than
either alone.
la the mountain valleys having an
altitude Of 300 feet or upward,
field peas are one of the best weld
ing crops and furnish an exception
ally cheap pork producing feed. The
flavor of lsa-fed pork Is by many
considered richer and finer than that
produced by any other k~a barley
yields well in all the pea growine>
sections These high mountain val
leys cover large area, q single
valley in the San Luis being a. large
as the state of Connecticut.
In the fruit growing sections OF
our state alfalfa and barley give
high yields, and the Gull fruit fed
with them to hogs reduces the cost
of pork. helps to produce choice
flavor and furnishes = market for
large quantities OF unsaleabie fruit.
The manure from the hogs increases
the Weld of fruit and improves the
size, coloring and quality.
In the dry land sections Of Colo
RADIO, covering an area OF twenty hive
million acres, barley is the surest
grain crop that can be grown, and
as before mentioned barley produces
much finer favored pork than corn.
The little country Of Denmark,
with only as much tillable land as
the San Luis valley, sells to England
alone eighteen million dollars worth
of pork each ye,r. 1t is barley-fed
and commands a much higher price
than the best quality OF American
rn-fed on account OF its finer fla-
vor. Barley-fed pork from Colorado
dry land areas will command a pre-
MUM when enough is produced to
supply the trade regularly.
In 1906. $4,000 hogs were
slaughtered in the Denver packing
houses. of which less than 1000,
not quite ten per cent, were raised
and fed in Colorado, the balance
coming from Nebraska and Kansas
During the same year the product
from over one million hogs was
shipped into and through Denver.
from the eastern packing houses, for
which the farmers east OF Colorado
were paid over twelve million dol
lars. Colorado farmers should have
furnished these hogs and they
should have received this large
amount Of money that went to farm
ers outside of the state. Colorado
feeds, conditions and climate pro-
duce the highest quality Of pork at
| low cost, and hog raising Is one OF
the most profitable industries in the
state
The present demald calls for one
hundred thousand hogs a month
through the wear in Denver, the
chief packing center Of the state, or
forty hogs a year IRON each of our
I farmers and stockmen.