The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-08-31
Hogs in Colorado.

Following is what Professor II. M.
Cottrel of the State Agricultural
College has to say of the Colorado
raised hog:
Choice flavor IL the marked charac-
teristic Of Colorado fed meat whether
it be beef, mutton, pork or poultry.
The feeds used to fatten animals in
Colorado are the feeds which produce
the finest flavor in meat that 1t is
possible to secure.
AT the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege last winter, pork from Tamworth
hogs, fattened on Colorado grown
barley and shorts, WAS pronounced by
all who tasted it to have the most de-
licious flavor of any that they had
ever eaten.
The Denver packers state that the
pork from hogs grown md fattened
on Colorado feeds is far superior to
corn-fcd pork in quality and flavor,
being as much superior In these re-
spects ms the mutton from Colorado
fed lambs, which IN rated In the mar
keta Of the United Statcs NJ the hest
produced.
All tiliabie sections Of Colorado can
produce good pork cheaply. In the
irrigated alfalfa sections, alfalfa pas
ture will produce 500 to 1000 pounds
of pork each yenr from an acre. The
grain fed for these sections is barley,
and in 1908 the average yield Of barley
In the Fort Collins district was over
1000 pounds per acre, sufficient to
Barley produces u specially fine fla
vor in pork. So does alfalfa, and the
two combined make II choicer flavor
than either alone.
In the mountain valleys having an
elevation of $500 feet and upward,
field peas are one OF the best yielding
crops and furnish an exceptionally
cheap pork producing feed. The fla
vor of pe,,-fed pork is by many con-
sidered richer and finer than that
produced by any other feed. BARLEY
yields we'll in nll the pea-growing
sections. These high mountain VAL
leys cover II large area, II single val
ley in the San Louis being as large as
the state of Connecticut.
In the fruit growing sections of
Colorado, alfalfa and barley give
high yields, and the Gull fruit fed
with them to hogs reduces the cost
of pork, helps produce Il choice flavor
and furnishes market for large
quantities of unstable fruit. The
manure from the hogs increases the
yield Of fruit and improves the size.
coloring and quality.
In the dry land sections of Col
orado, covering an area of twenty
five million acres, barley is the slrest
grain crop that can be grown, and
barley produces II much finer favored
pork than corn. The little country
of Denmark, with only as much TIL
liable land as the San Louis valley,
sells to England alone eighteen mil
lion dollars worth Of pork each year.
1t is barley-fed and commands a
much higher price than the best
quality of American corn-fed pork on
account of it's finer flavor. Barley
fed pork from Colorado's dry land
areas will command IL premium when
enough is produced to supply the
trade regularly.
In 1906, $4,000 hogs were slaugh-
tered In the Denver packing houses,
of which less than 1900, not quite
ten per cent, were raised and fed In
Colorado, the balance coming from
Nebraska and Kansas.
During the same year the products
from over one million hogs were ship
ped into and through Denver from
eastern packing houses, for which
the farmers east Of Colorado were
paid over twelve million dollars.
Colorado farmers should have fur
nished these hogs and they would