The daily sentinel., 1908-09-24
BRIGHT WOMAN
MAKES ADDRESS
This Morning in This City at Realty Meeting, Miss Kramer,
Of Colorado Springs, Entertaingly Told Of
Colorado's Agricultural Wealth

There is an element in the very
air of industry and progress and
only the slothful and sluggish fail to
catch the contagion of enterprise and
thrift that is today the great basis
on which this great state is building
foundation for even greater
state than we of this generation can
conceive.
why do fifty thousand men and
women crowd together and live on
one acre when there are thousands
of acres on which no man lives? Why
will man pay tens of thousands of
dollars for a bit of real estate 200
feet square in New York when he
1 can homestead 16O acres in west
ern state for nothing? But men are
fast learning to use the common
sense God gave them and that true
happiness is only found where there
is room to breath. move, think, grow
and live.
Sometimes we are inclined To
poke fun at the farmer and his couJi-
try ways. for myself | am country
bred and proud of it. The farmers
are the backbone of the nation. the
people we are depending on for our
bread and butter. They are produc-
ing the crops and demonstrating
what this country is, 1t is now our
business to tell of their efforts and
their results.
"A few years ago prairie dogs,
cactus and sand were the chief pro-
ducts today we find in their place
| alfalfa producing four to five tons
to the acre, sugar beets twenty to
twenty-five tons per acre, potatoes
two hundred to five hundred bushels
to the acre and even as high as nine
/ n hnc al rni m
one acre. The average net profit
from raising potatoes after making
allowances for labor, seed, etc, runs
from $685. to $1,000 per acre and
/ has gone as high as $4,000. Colo
RADIO apples travel through a thou
sand miles of apple country to top
the market in Chicago. Rocky Ford
canteloupes are known around the
world. while Grand valley peaches
/ grace the tables of the wealthiest
homes of the land Colorado beets
bring the highest prices paid in the
world because they contain more
sugar. Pea fed hogs of the San Luis
valley bring Sl00 more per hundred
than corn fed hogs and are always
in demand
Bee culture is an industry rapid
/ ly increasing, many car loads of
honey being shipped from this state.
/ Wheat yields from so to 75 bushels
/ per acre. oats rs to 100 bushels and
the quality of the grain is as choice
as the yield is large. And so on down
through the almost unlimited num-
4 ber of products raised outside of the
I tropical states.
There are two ways by which we
may measure the products of this
state against the rest of the world
One is the greatest national fairs and
the other is the markets of the coun-
try. At the Portland fair Colorado
I received SOC awards, more than twice
the number received by the states of
California. Utah. Washington and
Wyoming combined. Colorado pro-
1 ducts when placed on the market
bring the highest prices paid in the
world the demand being so great
that even home people can not be
supplied. Do you know the reason
for this? 1t is quality and the recipe
for Colorado quality is n rich soil,
constant sunshine, cool air and the
system of irrigation that brings wa
ter to the plants without shutting
1 off the sunshine from the leaves.
ITO be sure our country looks
scared, brown, flat. stale and un-
profitable in the winter time but
when spring sunshine kisses the
earth and the SHOWS of the winter
under his melting rays flows down
the streams and canons and refresh
the thirsty soil then come with me
and watch the wonderful transforma-
tion. Under the hand of the farmer
from week to week the thousands of
fertile acres takes on green beauty
uneNcelled by any state in the Union.
Then in the harvest season watch the
bank account of the farmer grow and
be convinced thatn o place can be
found where the production of the
land will yield greater amount of
actual cash.
''The eyes of the whole world have
been turned to our mineral output
while but little attention has been
paid to our farm products, yet have
YOU paused to think that the agricul-
tural products for the year of 1907
brought s100.000.000 while the
mineral output brought less than
half as much or only $45,000.00O or
$50.000.000.
The people of this country a few
years ago depended upon the broncho
and the old family horse for trans