The state herald., 1907-05-10


At the Colorado Agricultural College
last winter, pork from Tamworth hogs,
fattened on Colorado grown barley and
shorts, was pronounced by all who tast-
ed it to have the most delicious flavor
of any that they had ever eaten.
The Denver packers state that the
pork from hogs grown and fattened on
Colorado feeds is far superior tn corn
fed pork in quality and flavor. being as
much superior in these respects as the
the mutton from Colorado fed lambs,
which is rated in the markets Of the
Uuited States as the best produced.
All ti!lable sections of Colorado can
produce good pork cheaply. In the IT.
rigated alfalfa sections, alfalfa pasture
will produce 500 to 1000 pounds Of pork
each year from an acre. The grain fed
for theses sections Is barley, and in 1906
the average yield Of barley in the Fort
[Col'ius district was over 1000 pounds
h.-y-s. -slaae1A dsssCSl1e'
pounds Of pork. Barley produces
specially fine flavor in pork. SO does
alfalfa. and the two combined make
choicer flavor than either alone.
In the mountain valleys having an
elevation Of $3.50 feet and upward, field
peas are one Of the best yielding crops
and furnish an exceptionally cheap pork
producing feed. The flavor Of pca-fed
pork is by many considered richer and
finer than that produced by any other
feed. Barley yields well in all the pea
growing sections. These high mounain
valleys cover large area. single val
ley in the San Luis being as large MS
the state of Connecticut.
In the fruit growing sections Of Colo
rado, alfalfa and barley give high yields
and the Gull fruit fed'with them to hogs
reduces the cost of pork. helps produce
choice flavor and furnishes market
for large quantities Of unsalable fruit.
The manure from the hogs increases
the yield of fruit and improves the size
coloring and quality.
In the dry land sections Of Colorado,
covering AN area OF twenty-five million
acres. barley Is the surcst grain crop
that can be grown. and barley produces
u much finer favored pork than corn.
The little country Of Denmark, with on
ly as much ,illablc land as the San Luis
Valley. sells TO England alone eighteen
million dollars worth pork each year.
II Is barlcy-fcd and commands much
higher price than the best quality OF A.
mcrican eornfcd pork on account Of It's
finer flavor. Barley, fed pork from Cob
orado's dry land areas will command a
premium when enough is produced TO
supply the trade regularly.
In 1906. 1876. 900 hogs were slaughter
cred In the Denver packing houses. Of
which less than 1900. not quite ten
per cent. were raised and fed In Colorn-
do. the balance coming from Nebraska
and Kansas.
During the same year the products
from over one million hogs were ship
pod into and through Denver from east
crn packing houses, for which the farm.
crr east Of Colorado were paid over
twelve million dollars. Colorado farm
cra should have furnished these hogs
and they would have received this large
amount Of money that went 10 farmers
outside abe state. Colorado feeds. CON
dItions and climate produce the highest
quality Of pork at n low cost. and hog.
raising la ono Of tho most profitable In
,lus,rieH In the state
The present demand calls for 100. .Oc0
hogs n month through the year In Den.
yer, the chief packing c ntcr o: the state
forty hogs n year from each Of oar
farmers tnd stoekmen.
u. N. CorTRELL.