Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-02-05
Farmers ShOrt cOaSs0.
CONTINUED From First Pags)

year there are few bees breedfss
and In four or Ave weeks from now
there will be lots Of them. Do not
rob your hives too close as honey Il
food for the young bees and they
MUST have K. The queen lays the
eggs Zone to three thousand every
day) while the bees take care Of the
brood"
The next number was on the So
lecting OF the dairy COW BY Prof. O.
c. Gregg. This, too. was very pleas,
ing to listen to as he had way OF
expressing his statements that made
ali the boys fall in with him from
the first and he had the earnest at
tention of the audience throughout
his entire talk.
"The cattle of Colorado have the
quality of vigor. and this can be cred
tied to activity of climbing the noun
tains and hills. abundance of sun.
shine and the pure air which we find
in this state. We find vigor in the
breasts of men, therefore we would
naturally look in the breasts of cat
tie for vigor. The foundation for Sc
lection lies in the middle piece OF the
COW and falls to reason that II we
have good digestion in the cow we
must have the essentials for this work
to be carried on, thence the middle
piece covering the large digestive Or
gans. In order to have milk we must
have blood and in order to have
blood we must have food and plenty
of it. and it must go through the COW
and not remain in the COW. There
are lots of cattle that are thorough
| breds and are registered but they do
not produce what we want; in other
| words they are scrub thoroughbreds:
| Another point is that the back should
come to as sharp peak as possible
lust behind and back of the shoulders.
| When this point is sharp the cows are
| good for the butcher, but they are not
good for milk cows. Don't be guid-
cd by the size of the uddcr: ii the
blood vessels show on the udder they
are generally good, the large. vein
that goes from the udder to the aD-
domin should enter the abdomin walls
through a hole that is large enough
for the index finger to go through
and if there is n second hole it should
he large enough for lead pencil to
rass through. thus allowing a good
flow of blood thru the businesh end
of the COW. Now these points are
the machinery and we come to the
most important afct 9f all which Is
the power to drive the machinery
| with. II the cow has large and iull
ewes it is an indication of lots of Wig.
or and power, and il they have small
ewes would not give anything for
them
| Short recess. followed by Prof.
| Houses lecture on the measuration
OF water. "In the cast it is cloudy
an dthcv have plenty of rain and nat
urally there is moisture at the roots
OF plants. but here where it is SUM-
shiny and we haven't much rain there
Ii is naturally no moisture at the roots.
Food for plant life is in the dirt and
the dirt must be dissolved in water
before the food can be taken into the
plant The arid regions are the most
fertile Of lands while crops of nearly
all kinds are raised on the humid
lands they are not nearly so fertile
as the desert lands. We have a say
Nv a few drops of water on n few
drops of sand make 4 mighty differ
cncc in the price of land. Irrigation
i necessary to raise croDs at all in
some countries and is used for three
things. namely: necessity. insurance
| md 10 increase the yield. Where the
1 rainfall IS less than twenty inches per
ear irrigation is a necessity. Where
i' is over twenty inches and not to
| exceed thirty irrigation is an insur-
7rcc that they will hava a crop II cv-
c-vthirr else goes well. and where
he rainfall is above thirty inches pei
| scar VIC Use irrigation to increase the
Weld ui the crrp. When we stop to
firrrc IN il is found that eirht-tcnths
of mans food is produced bv irripa-
| iion and you can carry il as far as
| 'or like. even to the southern. east
| III 1f 10 -f
. Tar Eart as VIC can learn the pco-
pie were intelligent enough to leave
! rcr"-d OF themselves and their ways
mi from these records VIC arc abb
70 :cll that thcv irrigated at that ear
" Gate. In measuring water We use
| tho inrh. the foot and the acre foot
| IN inch is measured by n hole an
inch square though the water passc.
Inder i pressure of five inches. The
Colorado statutes provide that the
water foot shall be :3S4 inches and bv
second foot is meant the number OF
cuhic feet passing an orifcc per sec
| oud. An acre foot is the amount of
water il will take to cover an acre OF
ground u foot deep. this unit OF
measurement being used mostly IN
IN cmc7.rrirg of the reservoirs when
Mi rs''i j. feet run mp into the mil
lions and ii is difficult proposition
tc work with such large figures an
i. ipuut, much moro convenient
,'c The ac-c foot. The amount o.
,.at,- 'rccd"d or land depends large
" on the condition of the soil: tr"
Ianv reopic ovcrdo the irriga Ior
broicct by putting too much wi:cr
~ their land and rotting the trees
I'D plants this is bad practice"
At o'clock the entire high school
'ssemhIcd a: the high school build
~ and was Tivcn a short address bv
Prof. o. c. Gregg. after the girls re-