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Colorado State Agricultural college
thought they would try an experi-
ment The potato that makes Gree
lev famous IS manly from imported
ssed and the best of this imported
seed comes from the colder climates
from Wisconsin and Maine. for ex-
ample The gentleman Of the Agri-
cultral college thOgght they would
see II seed potatoes from Greeley aud
other DISTRICTS c0uldnt be grown up
IN Middle park Ii was a bit late in
the season. a. mentioned before. bat
they planted ten acres Of POTATOES
an Middle park, right next o. a /. resi-
reserve, at an elevation # little
over 500 feet Close bv Senator
Ammuns planted six acres more to
potatoes. Thinking that they might
as well get experience in punches
while they were at 1t, they planted
some cabbage and a little patch Of
oaulill0wer as we'll
The other day they dag those p0-
tatoes, those experimental POTATOES.
The sixteen acres averaged a little
over 100 sacks per acre. and the
price IL over : 50 per sack II
our arithmetic Is not out OF ioiut.
that makes gross income Of : $50
sacks per acre. Bat the farmers
around there made better records.
because they planted earlier MANY of
them got $50 sacks per acre, hardly
any ct them got as low a yield a. loo
sacks, the return from the Agricul-
tural college land. The gross cash
income from potatoes IN that region.
there, ran from $50 10 S225 per
acre.
And right adjoining are thousands
OF acres OF good land IN forest reserve
which yield gross income accord
ing to the forester : report, of about
two cents per acre. There is no dii-
ferance ia the quality of the land.
There Is no dilserance in elevation
much Of the forest reserve is no
higher than the land where the state
college was raising potatoes The
diilerance is between bureaucracy
and farming, between individualism
and Plnchotlsm, between land ad-
ministered from Washington for
nobody IN particular, and land
administered right nn the ground
for the owner and occupier.
Perhaps this difference between
$50 per acre and cents per acre
will help 10 explain why Colorado
does not feel more cordial to Mr.. PIN
chot, his policies il Is quite an item
To a state, when YOU stop to think of
it, whether the produce of its acres
is counted in postage stamps or in
hunbred-dollar bills. Quite an item
But that isn't the worst Of 1t for
plnchutsm, nor the best If 1t for the
state. We remarked that the college
people planted some cabbage and
cauliiloNers You may know, prob
ably do know, that the cooler the
climate in which you raise those two
things, the better the product The
cabbage field wasn't large, and It's
Weld will not exactly swamp the
state treasury. But its cash return
was at the rate of : 80 per acre
three times what the college potatoes
welded and twice the highest potato
record in the district, SO far as we
know at this writing. We are afraid
to tell YOU how the caullilower patch
figured out IL seems really too
good 10 be true, aud we are wOndor-
ingl there isn { a mistake somewhere
though we have never caught Sen
ator Ammons in mistake OF that
sort yet. As the figures stand, they
make the college potato field look like
the proverbiai 80 cents And Just to
show YOU what a man can do with
land that he isn't plowing in that
neighbOrhood, the timothy hav is
giving a gross return of about S25
per acre this year.
Exceptional Yields No. Not for
the timothy and potatoes and cab
bage The caulifiower is exceptional
but remember we didn't quote that.
It brought nearly twice the average
market price on account Of It's quality
Leaving out the caulifiower, let Us
see how how many acres Of Pinchot-
managed land it takes to equal the
Of one are of exactly similar land in
private hand.
Oneacre Of privately managed land,
in timothy hay, equals in income
| go acres of PInchot-managed land,
leased for grazing. One acre Of pri-
vately managed land, in potatoes,
equals 800 acres of Pinchot- -manac-
ed land in grazing. One acre Of pri-
vately managed land, in cabbages,
canals % 500 acres of Pipchot- man