La Junta tribune., 1912-10-19
This Years ss.psnseus Crops.

I Mr. Lutte Wilcox. editor of Denver
Field and Farm. submits tn. follow
Ing interesting data regarding Colo
raio crops:
The present agricultural situation
prcdicates by far the largest crops
OF everything ever grown In Coiora.
do. The grand total Will aggregate
800 900 900. which Is five times the
value OF the annual outpu, from the
gold and silver mines. The yield OF
wheat which IL nov half threshed
amounts TO $1,000 900 bushels and
oats will turn off 10000. 900 bushels
There Is good crop Of corn. Aifal.
IA and forage crops are unusually
heavy and there are sixteen thous-
and cars OF fruit The lateness OF
the peach crop is greatly in favor
OF Colorado growers. Late Elberta
peaches are now moving and there
will be 5000 carloads of them. Pears
will make a total OF zoo cars for
which 81 500 900 is expected. The
apple crop will aggregate about TO-.
900 cars Mixed fruit will bring
the grand total up to 5000 cars and
the total receipts up TO $4,000. The
best apples. such as J0nathans. have
already been contracted at $l.35
box run of orchard and gate count.
Potatoes are the only crop below
the average and We are figuring on
n total output OF 1000 carloads. the
result of increased planting In all
the Irrigated districts.
Five hundred thousand acres OF
alfalfa will yield 2.0o0 900 tons Of
hay. or 10 per cent more than last
year. with quite as large an area In
native hay yielding half the guam
ti,y. but worth quite as much money.
All the alfalfa meal from twenty
mile has alrcady been contracted
In the east. the most Of which Eoss
to New England 1T $50 . ton.
We are growing flax for the first
time this year and have 1000 acres
devoted to II and the yield is es-
timat-d AZ 30 bushels 10 the acre.
The dry farming districts have
1000. 900 bushels of surplus grain.
good corn crops. and Immense yields
Of non-sa ccharine sorghum with the
finest gramma grazing ever known
- l. -
normal number cf beef cattle. There
ar. oooo 900 acres OF good pasture
which Is held In reserve for winter
forage The sheep feeders will fat
ten ! 500 600 head of lambs and weth-
ers the coming season.
Tn. cabbage crop viii be abou, 2.
600 carloads: celery. 500 cars: on.
ions. COO cars. The canialoupe crop
amounted to over 1000 carloads car
ryinx IN. beet quality In years.
This Is the banner year for the
production OF beet sugar. We have
seventeen factories. the largest num-
ber Of any state In the union. and
the mill~ began milling the third
OF September on the greatest beet
harvest We have ever had. We
have = total planting of 1885, 900 acres
which viii yield close to twenty
tons the acre. The minimum con.
tract price IL 81 10 the ton. 10 that
anybody can figure the total re-
sults. The impetus given 10 the
business this year has induced cap
italists To voiuut-er eioo. go 900 for
the construction Of twenty-five fsr-
tories within the next three or four
years II the farmers viii guarantee
. sufficient acreage of bsets 10 kese
then rvaning. vifty caAAlag eartosSss
tAro1sAout the state ass Dats1ag -
the greatest park h ths hiseosy q
the industsy. and . spoA 1sai q esll
fruit viii be worked ~ II evaporat.
Ing cider and vinegar iAcotrteA