The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-12-21
FARM DEVELO OPMENT
GREAT INCREASE SHOWN IN
COLORADO FARM PRODUCTS.
Fiaurcx in Bulletin On Live Stock
And Crops Raised in Centennial
State Show Advancement.

presented in a bulletin issued by Di- /
rector Durand OF the government cen
sus bureau, showing the remaThao4e 4
increase in livestock and crops III the /
decade just prior TO the taking OF the /
last census.
The comparisons are not exact in /
many instances because OF the lack I
OF detailed information available IN /
1899, which made it necessary IN !
some instances to count by-products !
in with the actual products, thus /
doubling up the figures in some in
stances.
The report says in part
Tho number OF farms in Colorado
reporting dairy COWS on April 10, 1910.
was $3.50. but only 23,235 reported
dairy products in 1909. The number
of dairy COWS on such farms on April
-. 1910. was 94,l32. The amount OF
milk reported was 1852. 900 gallons.
BY reason of the incompletness OF
the returns for milk produced the cen
sus bureau has made no attempt TO
determine the total value OF dairy pro-
ducts for 1909. For convenience a
partial total has been presented com
prising the reported value of milk,
cream and butter fat sold and the re-
ported value of butter and cheese
made, whether for home consumption
or for sale The total thus obtained
for 1909 is si,174 ,0O0, which may be
defined as the total value Of dairy
products exclusive of milk and cream
Ised on the farm producing. The
butter made on farms in 1909 was
valued at sl.565, 900.
The total number OF sheep OF
shearing age in Colorado on April 10,
1910, was 800, 900, representing de-
crease OF 3.5 per cent, as compared
with the number on June ]. 1900 d.
353, ,000), The approximate production
OF wool during 1909 was 1,25i,00O
fleeces. weighing 1,563.0o0 pounds
and valued at sl,45S.000.
The total number of fowls on Col
orado farms on April Is, 1910, was
l.72l,oo0. OF the 34.4s1 farms report
ing fowls, 9,40S did not report any
eggs produced in 1909, and 1857 did
not report any poultry raised in 1909.
The production of eggs actually re-
ported for the year 1909 was 5,5s0,0Oe
dozen, valued at s1,96s, ,00o.
The total production of eggs in
1909. including estimates. was 1862
900 dozen, valued at s2,444, 900. The
total production of poultry in 1909, in
Guiding estimates made on the
same basis as in the case of eggs, was
2.707. 900 fowls, valued at s1,393,ooo
The total value OF domestic ami
mails sold during 1909 was s22, ,454,-
900, and that OF animals slaughtered
on farms $1,754, 900, making an aggre-
gate OF s24.20s.0oo.
The census OF 1900 called for the
receipts from the sale of all domestic
animals raised on the farms report
ing and the total value of those
slaughtered during 1899. which
amounted, respectively. to $s,47s,o0o
and $1.oe3.ooo.
The total value of crops in Colo
RADIO in 1909 was s50,975,900. The
mbined acreage of crops for which
acreage was reported was 2.614,312,
representing COS per cent. Of the total
improved land in farms 4,302.101
acres).
The general character OF Colorado
agriculture is indicated by the fact
that less than one-third (29 per cent?
OF the total value of crops in 1909
was contributed by the cereals, about
one-third 1893 per cent? by hay and
forage, about one-eighth l12 per cent?
by sugar crops, and about one-eighth
(l1.9 per cent? by potatoes and 9TH
er vegetables The remainder, repre-
senting 1872 per cent. Of the total,
consisted mostly of fruits and nuts.
In 1909 the total acreage of pota-
tees and other vegetables was 11S,2s2,
and their value S6.o59.0oo.
"Raspberries and loganberies are
the most important of the small fruits
raised in Colorado, judged by value.
with strawberries a close second. The
value of the raspberry and loganberry
crop in 1909 was $156.66s; Of the
strawberry crop, $156.059. The total
acreage OF small fruits in 1909 was
2.s29, and In 1899, 2,347, an increase
OF 205 per cent. The production in
1909 was 4.295,000 quarts. as COM
pared with 3.649,00O quarts in 1899,
and the value 900, as compared
with $294,oO0.
The total quantity Of orchard
fruits produced in 1909 was 1860
bushels, valued at 1852 900. Apples
contributed nearly four-fifths of this
quantity. peaches and nectarines most
of the remainder. The production of
grapes in 1909 amounted to 1,O37,614
pounds, valued at 32S.o26, while the
production of nuts was unimportant.
THE production OF all orchard
fruits together in 1909 was 1885 per
per cent more than that in 1899,
while the production of grapes in