The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-11-22
new FOR farmers
BRINGING THE AGR!CULTU.
RAJ COLLEGE TO THE
FARM DOOR

vest Festival has received a letter
from Prof. II. NJ. Cottrell in which he
says 'if your people want Short
Course we will be glad to ar
range with yon in regard to program
and date. | believe that u short
course in your town will help every
farmerwho attends il to make 5000 next
year. The fee of - for the course Of
six days is required, and each farmer
in Sedgwick county should be will
ing contributor to such an important
course. Read carefully the following
address and communicate at once with
either President l.. d. Huffman at
Sedgwick, or Secretary S. f. Steven
son at Julesburg, and do not let it
drag to Il disappointing failure:
In the irrigated sections of Colo
rado, land adapted to fruit growing
is selling at 500 to 5000 an acre:
sugar beet land near factories sells
for 500 to $500 per acre: good potato
lands bring 800 and upward per acre,
and the best cantaloupe growing land
sells readily at $500 an acre.
experts make annually net profit
of from 10 to - per cent. on this high
priced land. One Colorado orchard
ist has for IL years, on 45 rcres, maze
au average net profit, per year, of
$425 an acre, above all expenses, in
Guiding taxes. In six months a San
of 300 per cent. on his investment,
from feeding hogs, because he under
stood the special methods needed. A
dairyman in the dry-land section of
Colorado, received 81, 800 in 1906 for
the cream from 20 COWS.
several farmers in eastern Colo
RADIO, through the use of seeds and
methods of tiIlage adapted to their To-
calities, are raising 30 bushels Of
wheat and upward per acre on dry
land, with corresponding yields OF
other crops, and have refused $40 an
acre for their farms. while neighbors.
who do not understand dry-land
methods are barely making a living.
Large profits are made in farming in
Colorado by men who understand the
conditions peculiar to the state and
how to meet them. Those who not,
fail. The character Of the soil. the
dry climate, and the high altitude re-
| Quire seeds and methods different
from those used in states east, and
varieties that produce well at one al
! titude may be failure at different
altitude. Seeds raised under irriga-
! tion will almost insure a failure when
| planted under dry-land conditions.
| "fattening animals is unusually
profitable in Colorado, but it must be
done with feeds not common to the
corn belt, Every branch of farming
farmer who knows how, but is disas-
trous to the one who uses the methods
of other states.
SIT is cheaper for a farmer to get
a knowledge of right methods from
the Colorado Agricultural College
than it is to learn at his own expense
through his failures and successes on
bis own farm The farmers Short
Course held at the college has filed
this need to the satisfaction of the
farmers who have attended.
..tI1pv 70 r,,,,,,l tIn, ,I.,.
could not loave their business long
enough to take the short course at the
college, and they asked that short
courses be held in their own towns
and instruction given in in the lines
of farming of special Importance in
their communities.
Last January IA trial was made of
this plan and short course in hOrti-
culture was held for six days at Delta.
Colorado, under the direction of Prof.
Wendell Paddock, of the Colorado
Agricultural College. One hundred
and twelve farmers attended, each
paying tuition fee of ~ to meet part
of the expense. Fourteen instructors
from the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege taught in this course, and ses-
sions were held every day from 8 a. IN.
until noon; from | until ) p. III. and
at night.
Several orchard men who attended
this course were selling from $500 to
81 900 worth of fruit per rcre each
year, and yet were SO well pleased
with the help to make larger profits
that the short course gave them that
they voted to make the school q per-
manent annual event.
The college is planning to hold
several of these short courses during
the winter. Any subject in agricultu