The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-07-14
TIMELY TOPICS.

that $4,000 has been raised for
the congress and that everything
| promises prosperity at the big show
! He announces that everything will
| he done to make Denver the center
Of the apple market of the West
and that the congress will help
with this. 1t is estimated that 3d.
100000 barrels of apples pass
through Denver and are handled
there and plans are to be made for
this work.
The practice of feeding his horses
with alfalfa which has been covered
" it'll arsenate of lead spray may cost
James Golf, the well-known Fruit
vale ranchman, two fine animals
Both horses are now in DR.. Drew S
veterinary hospital and may recover.
They are valued at about $500. 1t
is a common practice in the valley
to raise alfalfa between the trees
and the first spraying often depos-
its a heavy coat of arsenate over
the forage plant which often has
disastrous result when fed to
animals Lead poisoning is usually
fatal to horses and the Golf team
are hardly expected to recover in
spite of the heroic measures which
have been used for their relief
Grand Junction Sentinel.
Gov. Shafroth has been served
with .Ipers notifying him of the suit
which the state OF wyoming has
brought against the state OF Colo
RADIO and certain irrigation COM
] -, ar- of this
state to determine whether Colorado
com panies can use water within the
boundaries of this state which Wy
oming residents have filed upon. The
Papers were referred to Attorney
General Ben Griffith. The case Will
be one of the hardest fought ever
known in Colorado for there is mil
lions of dollars to Colorado at stake.
Thomas T. Hayden, the actor,
known from coast to coast as Blind
! ION Hayden, is dead at his home
IN Brooklyn, following an attack
OIL pneumonia. He had been sight
less Gor thirteen years. Before he
/ became blind as the result OF an
accident he played many parts, at
one time with Miss Edith hIngdon,
now Mrs. George J. Gould. For
more than twenty-five years Mr..
| Hayden was with the prominent
dramatic clubs in New York and
Brooklyn. HIS 1avorite role was
! Armand in Camille" He appeared
in that part in New York tneaters
and attracted the attention of Mr..
Charles Frohman, who offered him
an engagement as leading man. Mt.
Hayden declined this, as he had de-
clined other like offers, preferring
10 remain an amateur.
One of the most important discov-
| cries which promises to be of con-
siderable value is that relating to
the possibility of curing hay by
artificial drying. BY this process
alfalfa hay is dried in twenty min
utes in n kiln SO as to retain the
original green color of the plants
growing in the fields. The results
thus far obtained are promising and
are of interest to alfalfa and clover
growers in this dry country as well
as in humid regions. 1t has been
found that hay cured in this way
does not so fully lose its sweetness
ana nutTlllon ny evaporation ~
when cured in the open air. This
is the reason why livestock find il
so palatable. There is a man in
Denver right now looking for a To-
oality in which to put one of these
mills. In this country IL is more of
"A question of getting a lot OF alfal-
IA into stack than is involved in
the manner of its drying.-Field an
Farm.
The recent indictment by the
federal grand jury of several milk
dealers for alleged violations of the
sherman antitrust law is matter
of grave concern to farmers every
where. 1t raises the vital question
of whether farmers can combine to
set the price ut which they will sell
their products. If they cannot lie
gally do this they will be at the
mercy of a few buyers who con-
troll the trade and who can easily
fix prices which will give greater
profits than they have ever been
able to exact. After the decision
in the Standard Oil case We can
hardly believe the courts will take
such a narrow view of the law as
to declare Illegal the various fruit,
grain, milk and other producers or
| CARNATIONS which have been formed
to improve marketing conditions an,
secure remunerative prices. The
country will not stand any such in
depreciation of the law.-Field and
Farm.
The talk is going around that
n Colorado farmer has several
stalks of wheat on his place which
have been grown from seed 2.00C
years old taken from the tomb OF