The Lamar register., 1910-06-08
mate amount of ;1o.ooo.ooO.

h6uTe6 mhue up Dy the DusineSS
mems association there. it was
shown that more money is being
sent out of Pueblo each and every
day for butter, eggs and poultry
than Is spent in the entire city
from the combined payroiIs of the
steel works and ali the smelters.
Such an assertion. backed up as it
Is by reliable men. is staggering.
With ali the pride the Arkansas
valley takes in the immense indus
trial plants situated at Pueblo. the
leading city of the valley. it takes
the edge of the pride to find that
practically the entire payroll is be-
ing spent in outside states for
products of the chicken and COW.
And such products could be raised
In the Arkansas valley and furnish
ed the city OF Pueblo as easily as
Kansas can do 1t. Pueblo is only
one city. Denver represents an
other proposition similar. as does
every other city and town in the
state. One Denver bank reports
that over $4,000 q week OF its
funds Is checked out to Nebraska
alone for eggs.
With the natural advantages the
Arkansas valley offers. it is re-
markable that the farmers here do
not take more of an interest in egg
and butter production. In this sec
lion. particularly with the beet sug-
IT mills turning back to the farm
ers the pulp OF the beets. one of
the best dairy feeds known. and
with the heavy tonnage of beet
tops each year. a feed il always at
hand to turn into the best butter
and milk. Alfalfa makes an ideal
reed. and grains are raised enough
in this section to make chicken rails
ing and egg production a good side
line. especially with the excellent
market Of Pueblo SO near.
Other food stuffs were shipped
into the state. but none Of them
in as large abounts as butter and
eggs.
One of the most startling asser-
tions made in the bulletins sent
out by the Agricultural department
is that in the past year there. are
1000 more retailers Of butterine In
the state than previous. showing the
ever Increasing demand for a cheap
substitute for the imported butter
from Kansas and Nebraska II
should be remembered that Kansas
and Nebraska feeders and dairy
men are feeding bran at an approx
innate cost of $50 q ton to their
cows, while In this valley the beet
pulp is naturally not any where
near as expensive. and makes as
good a feed for cows
One concern in Denver making
butter, manufactured last year over
thee million pounds of butter. the
geater part of the cream used be-
ing shipped in from Nebraska. and
churned in Colorado. The market
for the butter is in the state. but
the product. or rather by-product OF
the intensive farming was not. and
had to be purchased in other states.
Fl. Collins. Colorado. not sucp
q large place and a town that can
be taken as an index of the import
ing Of eggs. shipped eggs into its
borders from outside points in Ne
braska to the value OF $1,000
week, and other cities and towns
in the state . proportionate amount.
The dry bracing air of Colorado
has been found to be very benefit
cial to cows. and the per cent OF
tuberculosis in dairy herds of Colo
rado Is less than in other sections
of the country. The dry air. and
much sunshine OF Colorado makes
it much easier to keep milk and
cream than in the lower humid
states, and the taints that often
spoil milk are not noticeable.
1t is something for Colorado farm
ers to think about, this heavy i'm
porting Of eggs and butter. import
ing to the extent that the payrolls
Of our large Puebloindustrial plants
is virtually turned over to outside
farmers. and a sideline of dairying
in the Arkansas valley. using the
feeds that srss here as . result OF
the sugar industry, would undoubt-
edly mean more money in this sec
ton, money that is at present 60
fuu oufofdo of the state