The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-07
The pork industry Is increasing rapidly in this staie
Lamb EeedInu.

Colorado Is now producing the finest mutton to be found anywhere on the globe, even eXcelling the fine mutton pro- | duced in England, where the sheep and lambs are fed on dwarf Essex rape, ruta- bagas and vetches In Colorado the lambs are grown and fattened on Colorado field peas, sugar beet tops and alfalfa; this forming the greatest combination or bal anced ration for producing not only the highest quality of mutton, but also the best breakfast bacon of the world. One of the great advantages of the Colorado field peas is thet the stock can harvest the crop and thus affords a great saving of labor which adds mutA to the profits of the crop. Thousands of lambs are now fed from the peas and carloads are ship ped to the large cities of the east, where they bring as high as 80 per hundred weight Colorado Is fast getting a mo- nopoly on the markets of our great cities for high grade lamb chops and fine nut ton.
 The pea used here for feeding sheep and hogs is not our COW pea of the south but the Canadian or Scotch field variety of peas. Some years ago these peas were taken to Colorado, accmated and im- proved upon until now they have a va riety fully suited for their conditions call ed Colorado field peas. The demand for seed of these peas is enormous. One seeds man said that he had sold a car of these to be planted in Florida, This will be a great mistake as this class of peas will not thrive in Alabama or Florida; they are a type of peas that belong to high altitude and a cold, moist climate. l men ton this so that our readers may not be misled in buying them However, if any of our readers want to experiment with them it would be well to do so on a small scale.
 Alfalfa.
 The valleys of Colorado are green with great crops of alfalfa which is giving wonderful results and enormous profits. Farmers report profits of from S50 to 800 per acre Alfalfa furnishes food for all stock on the farm, from the hen ur. Mills for grinding alfalfa into meal are now being established and this adds much to the commercial value of the crop Alfalfa is not only giving good re- suits under irrigation but many fine crops of Providence alfalfa are to be found in the dry-farmng sections. Fine alfalfa seed are now being grown in the state.
 Melllotus.
 Meilotus a first cousin to alfalfa, Is found growing wild in many sections of the state and some wonderful profits have been realized from feeding meliotus to stock. l give here the experience of one man in feeding melilotus, the truthful ness of which IS vouched for by Prof Cottrell of the Colorado Agricultural College.
 F. W. Coakley, Bountfu Colo, bought five small SOW DIES in July, 1905, They were bred in February and raised thirty six pigs. The pigs and sows were fed field peas and bran slop and through the spring and summer of 1906 were kept on two acres of mellotus. The mellotus was kept moved down, as 1t grew fas- ter than the forty head could eat 1t.
 The seed cost s470 The cost of blow Ing, seeding and fencing was $l5, and @i was paid for grain.
 In November 1906, Mr. Coakley sold twenty :.4-.i Of fat hogs for sl63.2o, and had aie9za soys loft for which he was offeIee f1s each, or sl92
 Ills account stands as follows: Original cost of SOW pigs. ...........s 1000