Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-03-08
THE FARMERS INrs%'.%H%1 s'.'.H IT,,
Great Interest Manifested In tho
Proceedings.
MANY VALUABLE PAPERS READ
Closing Session Showed the Same
Excellent Attendance as
Marked the Opening
[cosrisuIp FRoY LAST WEEK.
Wednesday Morning Session.

"Wednesday Morning Session.
The Wednesday morning session
was opened with alfalfa"
Z. W. Newberry was the man to
lead off with paper on the subject.
He spoke from an intelligent exper-
ience with his subject and called out
quite general debate on the theme
that was ediiying. One of the i'm
portant points brought out was the
value of disking old alfalfa fields.
Mr.. Kouns asked abou, the new
theory of planting alfalfa in drills and
crltivating like II crops, with a spe-
e;ai view to raising alfalfa seed. He
had read something on the subject
tha, aroused his interest and wanted
10 know what was known about II.
Prof. Co,,rell took the floor and
rood-naturediy said tha, was n dry
farming idea" He said IL was be-
i;ered tha, this method of alfalfa
growing for seed was very practical
Bic. particularly where moisture was
limited. bu, there had not been
enough done on this line yet to speak
with much enthusiasm about II:
VIM. Mathews told of the wisdom
of seeding for alfalfa in the fall and
cited nm instance Of such seeding ly-
ing under water from ditch overflow
for 4 whole winter and coming out
Sne II brourh, n better first crop
than common.
The orchestra tined up in the in
,eryal and then the dairyine interest
20, the floor. I, was no; quite so dry
as "dry farming" though as a mat
ter of fact the dairy interest Is not
\ big ono In this neck o. the woods
and butter production has never been
one on which our farmers have en-
thused. So the subject did not in
anyw;sc arouse the popular enfhus-
iasm that did the dry farming debate
Of the previous session.
B. w. Bell, our local dairyman. was
given the irst innings and presented
4 good paper from the standpoint OF
practical experience. He pointed out
sha. labor was a very important item
in dairy cost and at the same time
one generally entirely overlooked BY
the cow keeper. He said good an; 2;
thori,y had put this labor cost at all
the way from Sra to $50 year per
cow, He said Il was perfectly safe
20 put the local cost at the last figure.
He said the idea that the skim milk
and manure balanced this item OF la
Dor COS. was fallacy. The other
items, less feed, he believed brought
rp tho cost to SAL a year. As to
feed: The alfalfa resource made the
protein cicmcn, easily available here
and this should be considered with .
view to keeping down fat at the cx-
pense of milk production. He made
the cows bill OF fare to consist of 10
pounds of alfalfa, $50 pounds OF beet
pulp and 10 pounds Of grain. This
was only approximate with view to
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the taste of the individual cow must
oc consulted to be sure. Finally the
COW that had good grain appetite
was tho most profitable cow.
Prof. Cottrell Of Fort Collins col
lego spoke next on "The Points to
Select in a Dairy Cow" Three points:
A large stomach: the more a COW
eats and turns into milk the more
money. A COW with wide spring ribs
and body depth. Next bony strue-
turc. You want a sharp boncd cow
sharp shoulder blades and sharp hip
borcs. II fat and arehcd bone struc-
tuic make beef of the COW: Then an
I intelligent COW, not stupid one. a
Ncow that likes attention and calls Tor
|Tt: fine eye and fine, vclvcty skin,
this makes dairy COW.
L. W. Babcock Of the local creamery
then finished up the morning session
with a demonstration Of the method
of the separator system of getting the
cream to the dairy and testing Il. He
made a partial demonstration Of the
process of testing for butter fats,
with equipment for the purpose. This
finished an interesting session.
Wednesday Afternoon.
The afternoon session Wednesday
was the "Cantaloupc" session Of the
Institute. The subject Of cantaloupes
would seem to have been pretty well
thrcshed out by these Institutes. but
the afternoon nevertheless brought
out many points that were new and
much that would be of use to new
growers coming into the community:
The one subject that was all-around
new perhaps was Sunday Picking
This was opened with paper by o.
7. Baxter. The paper. and the argu..
mcnt following. by no means turned
entirely upon the religious phase OF
the question. Mr.. Baxter's strong
pica was made from the business
standpoint. He argued that there
being no Sunday demand it was not
wise to have Sunday supply. In
other words. the Sunday picking put
two davs crop on the Monday mar
ket, and the result was an ovcrstock-
cd market.
A. p. Kouns argued that to aban-
don Sunday picking was to have the
grower pick too close on Saturday,
putting green stuff on the market,
and then having a good deal of over
r;pe stuff in the Monday picking.
D, v. Burrell supported Mr.. kouns.