The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
CATTLE AND HOGS.
Colorado Dairying.

Last year one Colorado firm alone, the
Littleton Creamery company, paid Kan
sas farmers two and quarter million
dollars for cream, which they shipped to
Denver and churned to supply the ia
bles OF Colorado people. Within a week
;he writer has seen in town 200 miles
southwest of Denver, cream that was
shipped from Kansas, and this in town
surrounded by an ideal dairy country
cool climate, rich grasses, heavy yields
of alfalfa and water from mountain
streams.
The Colorado farmers who are in the
dairy business find it profitable. III. III.
Ewing, Fort Lupton, milked 26 cows in
1906 and received $40 per COW for the
milk. He milks dairy Shorthorns, and
sold his calves for veal at $40 each. b.
Potter, Peyton, milks grade Holsteins,
and in 1906 sold the cream from 20 head
for 81 800. III. Y. Nichols, Peyton, re.
ceived in one month $500 for the cream
from - cows number of dairy far.
mers near Fountain report that they av-
erage from $500 to $500 per month per
COW from the sale of cream.
The mild weather through the fall and
winter in Colorado, makes dairying at
this season more profitable than it is in
states east, giving the Colorado dairy
man the advantage OF cheap feed and
shelter at time when prices are high
est. In October, 1906, w. E. Carpenter
received an average of s4.40 per COW for
cream, his COWS having buffalo grass
pasture without any other feed. N. b.
Alderman, Cherry, received in January
Sl6051 for the cream from 25 cows &c. 4C
per COW. He fed alfalfa hay and very
little grain. A dairy farmer near Elberl
has been averaging 800 per month pei
COW from the sale of cream.
Colorado has ideal conditions for dai
rying over large part Of the state. The
climate is dry and cool. The winters
are mild and dry. The native grasses
are rich in milk -produ cling food, and il
most sections of the state the climate is
such that the grass cures right where il
grows, affording nutritious pasture botl
summer and winter. Alfalfa is one o.
the best milk producing feeds. grown
and it yields well both on dry and on ir
rigated land up to an altitude of 5000 tt
1900 feet, and from $500 feet altitud,
and upward field peas give heavy yield.
of hay that, as a milk producing feed, i.
second only to alfalfa.
In grain feeds for milk production
Colorado has large yields OF oats, barle,
and speltz, and it is one of the best root
producing states in the union. Suga
beets and mangels yield well up to 7,5O
feet altitude, and large yields of higl
quality OF turnips and rutabagas ar,
raised up as high as $500 feet.
Two thirds of the state has sprinl
water from mountain SHOWS, and in som,
sections pure, cool water from artesiar
wells is available. The cool climate ant
pure, dly air make it easier and less ex
pensive to give milk, cream and butte
proper care than it is at lower attitudes
There is some dairying being done il
the dry land section OF eastern Colorado
1t will be advantageous for most of th
farmers in this section of the state t,
make dairying a feature of their work
No matter how dry the season may be
the native grasses will produce profit
able yield of milk, and these may be sup
plemented with sorghum, kafir corn ant
other droughtresisting crops, insuring
good cash income no matter what tn
season may be.
Many of the mountain parks OF Colo
rado have conditions of climate, temper
ature and water similar to those of tn
famous mountain dairy districts of Ney
York, with more nutritious grasses
ii. NJ. COTTRELL.