The Holly chieftain., 1907-12-06
Bringing College to Farm.

growing is selling at $500 to $2,-
600 an acre; sugar beet land near
factories sells for $Ioo to 5000 an
acre.
Experts make annually a net
profit of from 10 to rs per cent on
this high priced land. One Colo
RADIO orchardist has for IL years,
on IS acres, made an average net
profit, per year, of $42s an acre,
above all expenses, including tax
cs. In six months San Luis val
ley farmer made a net profit Of
900 percent on his investment,
from feeding hogs, because he un-
derstood the special methods
needed. A dairyman in the dry
land section of Colorado, received
$1,000 in 1906 for the cream from
20 cows.
Several farmers in eastern Col
orado, thru the use of seeds and
methods of tillage adapted to
their localities, are raising 80
bushels of wheat and upward per
acre on dry land, with cores
ponding yields of other crops, and
have refused $40 an acre for their
farms, while neighbors, who do
not understand dry-land methods,
are barely making living.
Large profits are made in farm
ing in Colorado by men who un-
derstand the conditions peculiar
to the state and know how to
meet them. Those who do not,
fail The character of the soil,
the dry climate, and the high al
titude require seeds and methods
different from those used in
states east, and varieties that pro-
duce we'll at one altitude may be
a failure at a different altitude.
Seeds raised under irrigation will
almost insure a failure when
planted under dryland condi-
tions.
Fattening animals is unusually
profitable in Colorado, but it
must be done with feeds not
common to the corn belt. Every
branch of farming returns large
profits to the Colorado farmer
who knows how, but is disastrous
to the one who uses the methods
of other states.
IT. is cheaper for farmer to
get knowledge of right meth
DDS from the Colorado Agricultur-
Il college than it is to learn at his
own expense thru failures and
successes on his own farm. The
farmers short course held at the
college has filled this need to the
satisfaction of the farmers who
have attended.
Many farmers found that they
could not leave their business
long enough to take the short
course at college, and they ask
ed that short courses be held in
their owntowns and instruction
given in the lines of farming Of
special importance in their COM
icunities. :.
Last January a trial was made
oi this plan and short course in
horticulture was held for six days
at Delta under the direction of
Professor Wendell Paddock. One
hundred and twelve farmers at
tended, each paying tuition fee
of Sc, to meet part Of the expense.
Fourteen instructors from the
Colorado Agricultural college
taught in this course, and sessions
were held every day from 8 a. m.
until noon; from I until S p. m.
and at night.
Several orchard men who at
tended this course were selling
from $500 to ST 900 worth of fruit
per acre each year, and yet
were so well pleased with the
help to make larger profits that
the short course gave them that
they voted to make the school a
permanent annual event.
The college is planning to hold
seeral OF these short courses the
coming winter. Any subject in
agricultural lines will be treated
by instructors from the college,
the community where the school
;s held tn select the tnnics