Gunnison news-champion., 1911-06-30
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the Lake Fork this week He 10
much interested IN good roads fos
that end OF Gunuison cuuntv. tn6eed,
II has been long time ssnce any
work was done on the dIfhcali reed
~ Lake Fork canon.
Two New Trains aud Three Nights
Chicago or NJ. LOUIS TO San Fran
CISCO is the ssbject OF striking ssr-
eular announcing the burlington.
Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, Rio
Grande, Western Pacific new service
b. the Pacific Coas' lnsugurated sun
day last. Whoever planned the cir
cular evidently intended 1t should
be "read
Mining is not everything IN the
Osray district The newer industry
of dry farming is sprlnging up
rapidly Ii is estimated that there
are Al, 900 acres Of dry farming lands
in the county under cultivation.
Amos Walther, banker at Ridgwsy,
ten miles from Ouray, and one OF the
earliest settlers, has drv farm of
1000 acres ON which he raises barley,
oats, wheat and rye. Last season
his oats ran as high as forty bushels
10 the acre and the lowest was only
fifteen bushels.
Exchange: have just finished
making a round tank or watering
trough of cement 1t is eight ieet
at the bottom and flares to eleven
feet at the top. | dug a trench SIX
inches deep and filed it with fine
stone Then got some fine dirt and
made form twenty six inches high,
using q gauge on the inside Of the
form TO make il true. Heavy build
ing paper was laid inside the form
and the cement poured in. When
mixing the cement | used fifty
shovels Of sand and two hundred
pounds of cement mixed it three
times dry. then wet it to q stiff
mortar ! msde the sides first, six
inches thick, then put in the bottom.
keeping the cement well tamped
down as ! put it in. For this tank
! used fourteen sacks of cement and
one and one-half loads of sand. The
cost IN cash was SIS. ! now have
a tank that holds thirty three barrels
of water at half the cost of my old
tank and the best of it is it is there
for all time. Freezing will not affect
it in the least.
Field and Farm:-Few farmers
know the labor cost of a field Of
grain nor whether the harvesting
pays for all the outlay We know
that the yearlings and hogs are do
ing a good deal of the harvesting
this year II is less difficult than
troublesome to keep a record, but il
the farmer will carry a little book
and make a memorandum If the
hours actually spent in blowing, in
preparing the seed bed, in sowing
or planting, in cultivatine, in lrriQat.
ing, IN harvesting-in fact a record
by hours of all time consumed by
man or beast, he will discover a new
light and begin to find remedies.
An account should he kept with
each field, as with an individual
Charge the field with the labor at a
price the farmer would pay for it il
he hired the work done Each item
of cost should be charged to the
field IL machine is broken,
charge the expense of repairs to the
field in which the accident occurs
When the crop is taken off, credit
the field with it's value. The differ.
ence between the two footincs will
show where the loss or gain falls
Going further in bookkeeping, the
cost of seed. with the cleaning, etc
might be added and make a part Of
the record. When the farmers ars
making only four per cent on theil
investments each ehoald know foi
himeelf what he ie doing and il loe