The Elbert County tribune., 1907-07-04

Is confining his efforts with this grain
to increasing the yield and improving
the milling qualities.
Breeding Of Animals.
And Professor Carlyle, dean of the
scnool and head of the animal hus-
bandry department, is doing work
qui'e as fine as anything Professor
Oiin has attempted and work far more
difficult.
And here let me say that the sys-
temailc and patient breeding of ami
mals Is the most bitterly needed thing
in american agriculture. The curse OF
American breeding has been the rest
less, changeable nature of our people.
VINO seem to think Il sin for two gen
eraiions 10 follow the same business
Take the work of William Warfieid. for
instance, the breeder of ShorthoTns
at Lexington. Kentucky Warfield was
one OF the born breeders. one of the
kind who in the words OF Lord Elgin
could chalk up an ideal on a black
board and then go to work and pro
duce Il in flesh. He had the best
herd of Shorthorn cattle In North
'America. He bred the only stock that
was equal To the imported cattle for
Jul ldl III 1 Dt-
lieSe II to be well within the mark TO
say that warfield was worth many mil
lions OF dollars to the United States.
Well he had to die at last being hu-
man. He left three sons One of them
is lawyer: two are preachers. The
Warheld herd. the finest in America,
is already scattered to the four winds.
and all that splendid work is to do
over again oil
cattle and preachers and lawyers but
to breed breeder seemed beyond
him. And so once more. we are run
,ning to England for bulls to improve
our herds.
What the School Is Doing.
Nov. what is the school doing to
spread information among the farmers
of the state?
Everything humanity possible with
the force and equipment It has at the
present time.
There were sixty-one pupils regis
tered last year fo- the regular or long
course. There were eighty-seven who
were taking the short course-two
years of three months each. This
course. by the way. has been length
ened TO five months. There were III
attendants on the Farmers courses.
two weeks spent on the points which
practical farmers are most anxious to
learn quickly In addition to this a
large number Of farmers Institutes
have been held in every part of the
state. Bulletins are sent out whenever
the college or experiment station has
anything TO report, and the agricul-
tural part of the school gets out
about l 900 letters per month For the
present year still more Institutes are
planned for. 100 in all. taking in every
agricultural county In the state. Sew
eral short courses will be given in dit
ferent parts of the state on local sub
jects-on fruit farming al Grand June
ton, for instance. and other subjects
at other places. And finally the annual
visit of the farmers to the school is
now a settled fact.
What does the state stand to win
from all this work?
More than know how to put be-
tore you. More. In my judgment. than
from all the other state institutions
put together. have given You the
hgures on the alfalfa proposition. Let
Us look at the others.
"fou know already. of course. thar
Colorado mutton is the best and
highest priced in the market But
colorado pork might easily gain the
same profitable eminence. and wouid
he even more valuable.
"LasG winter carload of San Luis
hogs was shipped to Los Angeles as an
experiment. Within a week from the
limo that pork was on the market the
order was sent to the valley for eiga;
carloads more. The eight followed the
one and lot more followed the eigh.
Lcs Angeles called so persistently for
san Luis hogs and paid so fancy a
price for them that Colorado Springs
could get scarcely any of the valley b.
can. In all 140 carloads of sogs have
Sone from the San Luis valley to Los
Angeles this year. They have BROUGHT
I price considerably above the average
market price. Swift & Co and Ar
mour have offered a regular premium
OF 81 per hundred over the usual mar
ket price for these Colorado hogs. pro.
yideo they can get enough to keen a
plant running. Portland. Oregon. has
taken several carloads this year and
paid for them handsomely, though The
distance is SO great and the shipping
facilities SO poor that the hogs had to
be unloaded four times en- route.
Why this demand? Because Of the
quality alone. San Luis hogs command
premium wherever people know the
dinerence between SOW belly and ba.
con, and are able to pay for the better
article. Corn makes greasy. lardy
pork. that burns when you try 10 fry 1t
crisp. Peas makes pork with a rich,
nutty flavor that can be Drowned to n
nicety and that tastes as much like the
common salt side as 1t does like pre-.
served Strawberries. There is a de-
mand Ia this country for the best,
rather than the cheapest, and that de-
mand II is Colorado's business to sup
ply. The San Louis valley alone. II
rightly cultivated. can furnish million
hogs a month, all pea fed: Middle park
can do as much. the Wet Mountain val
ley is good for another nice bunch. ana
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