The Greeley tribune., 1910-01-13
EXPERTS AT COLLEGE ARE
ADVISING CAREFUL CtLLING

Gull. Gull, Gull, and the stock you |
then send to market Will bring more
money than the whole crop would |
have brought ii dumped without a
close sorting as much of it is. If
we do not take this care, scrupul-
ously and always, soon we are going
to be confined to the so-called mig
ger trade" of the south for our mar
ket. while others with closes atten-
ton to this factor will rake in the
profits.
Our market is the whole world,
or at least the whole of North Amer
ica The famous Hood River. Ore.
strawberry crop is marketed almost
wholly in Chicago. being sent there
by fast express refrigerator train
service, in whole trainloads.
We have many advantages in Colo
RADIO that easterners and others lack
Our fruit is more highly colored and
makes a nicer appearance. Many
/ varieties are better favored. We
have almost every climate of the
temperate zone at different attitudes.
The crops We can raise no man yet
knows. We are state OF special
ties and our possibilities along these
lines have barely been touched.
, For example, Steamboat Springs
last summer began shipping straw
berries to Denver. Their crop begins
: ripening about the middle of July
p long after all other strawberries are
/ out OF the market The result is
that. with the advent OF the railroad
\ they can put their berry produc
i into Denver at a price of Sc pc
= crate and the people cannot ge
FtN .Tvl, NO., a.
p mand.
It There are other localities wher
: success along these lines would be a
r, great, If given intelligent trial, an
h the problem peculiar to each localit
e worked out by experience Colorad
IT will eventually become one of tn
If greatest celery growing states in tn
world Our celery is sweeter an
D. milder favored than that of eve
re the famous Kalamazoo district Nc
r all lands will raise good celery, an
i in our state the tendency Is for
Sc to run to seed. This is obviated b
Id never letting it stop growing
s. should be irrigated every four
tn five days. The soil should be adap
ry ed to ii, and in those localities whel
p conditions are right for it's cultiva
he ing il will make fortune for II
man who grows il in carload lot
ed One man at Fort Lupton has four
at the right conditions and is makir
n a success. Some of the rich botto
mt lands along the Poudre are de
ng for celery culture. A man in Il
he Plateau valley has discovered Ia
he can grow great big dewberrie
m most as long as your thumb !
he has to haul them twenty miles
in the railroad, but he cleared So
)u- OFF less than an acre this seasc
ice We don't know what we can gro
ar! till we try it. and we don't knt
his what varieties do best in dffere
DR.. attitudes until we test them. NJ
as, die Park farmers have discover
ost this year that they can grow sol
yed Of the finest potatoes in the wor
on There are localities where there /
OBJ not been failure in the peach CT
hat in thirty years, at an altitude
hat 500 feet.
the Our land is becoming higher
be price than we can hold it, unless
nee work 1t to its best advantage. La
ght to be worth $500 per acre, and ma
be tain that figure. must bring in
and leafs enough income to pay SIG
IBIS year per acre above the expense
two growing, handling and marketing
ent crops, besides profit to the grow
This is per cent profit on the
idly vestment