The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-15
Colorado Dairyrno.

the Littleton Creamery Company. paid
Kansas farmers $2.250. 900 for cream,
which they shipped to Denver and
churned to supply the tables of Colo.
RADIO people. Within a week the
writer has seen in a town 200 miles
southwest of Denver, cream that was
shipped from Kansas. and this in a
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 1t profitable.
H. H. Ewing. Fort Lupton, MIXED 26
cows in 1906 and received $40 per COW
for the milk. He milks dairy Short
horns 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 $500. H. Y.
Nichols, Peyton, received In one
month 5000 for the cream from 80
cows A number of dairy farmers near
Fountain report that they average
from IS to Sc per month per COW from
the sale of cream.
The mild weather through the fall
and winter In Colorado makes dairy
ing at this season more profitable than
1t is in states east, giving the Colo
RADIO dairyman the advantage of cheap
feed and shelter at time when prices
are highest In October. 1906, w. Z.
Carpenter received an average of $440
per COW for cream, his cows having
buffalo grass pasture without any
other feed. N. B. Alderman. Cherry.
received in January $160.51 for the
cream from 20 cows-$6.4O per COW.
He fed alfalfa hay and a very little
grain. A dairy farmer near Elbert
has been averaging 81 per month per
cow from the sale Of cream.
Colorado has ideal conditions for
dairying over a large part of the state.
The climate is dry and cool. The win
ters are mild and dry. The native
grasses are rich in milk-producing
food. and in most sections of the state
the climate is such that the grass
cures right where 1t grows, affording
nutritious pasture both summer and
winter Alfalfa Is one of the best
milk-producing feeds grown. and It
yields well both on dry and on irri-
gated land up to an altitude of 5000
to 1900 feet. and fVpm $500 feet al
titude and upward, field peas give
heavy yields of hay that, as a milk
producing feed, is second only to al
falfa.
In grain feeds for milk production.
Colorado has large yields of oats. bar
ley and speltz, and 1t Is one of the
best root-producing states in the
Union. Sugar beets and mangels
yield well up to 1900 feet altitude,
and large yields of high quality of
turnips and rutabagas are raised up
as high as $500 feet.
Two-thirds of the state has spring
water from mountain SHOWS, and In
some sections pure. cool water from
artesian wells Is available. The Cool
climate and pure. dry air make it cas-
Ter and less expensive to give milk,
cream and butter proper care than it
is at lower attitudes.
There is some dairying being done
in the dry land section of eastern
Colorado. 1t will be advantageous for
most of the farmers in this section of
the state to make dairying feature
OF their work. No matter how dry the
season may be, the native grasses will
produce profitable yield of milk and
these may be supplemented with sor-
ghum, Kaffir corn and other drought
resisting crops. insuring good cash
income, no matter what the season
may be.
Many of the mountain parks of
Colorado have conditions of climate,
temperature and water similar to
those of the famous mountain dairy
districts of New York, with more nu-
tritious grasses.
H. NJ. COTTRELL.