The daily sentinel., 1914-02-25
ABOUT HOME FOLKS
and
ABOUT HOME DOINGS
(By A. G. NEWTON.)

My suggestions as to the increase
in egg production by keeping fewer
chickens over winter and feeding the
few as much as the many has created
a good deal OF interest and several
have given me their experience which
proves that my idea is equally as
good as the Philo or any other sys-
TEN. aud it costs The Sentinel read
ers nothing. Mr.. Charles Van Horn
the drug store man, says that from
twenty-three pullets he secured thir-
ty dozen eggs in November, thirty
two in December and twenty in jan
uary. His pullets were early birds
and began laying some in October.
He has one brood of chicks already
hatched and another old hen on the
nest, as he keeps few old fowls for
this purpose.
]. p. johnson, of No. 9l9 Chipeta.
received 1920 from eighteen hens in
January, the coldest month. and
s6.70 in Deztun nber: he keeps them
very warm dbd gives them all they
can eat. and 1t does not make a great
deal of difference what they are fed,
Just so that it is enough. He says
that this sum is GO per cent profit.
The idea is that few early pullets
well kept will do far better than 100
hens fed Just enough to keep them
warm and growing. Most OF the
ranch people keep too many bird4and
get no eggs at all in December and
January. Better to have the few
when eggs are high and there is
nothing that pays so well as the hen.
This valley never should ship in an
egg. and the people should have all
they need at moderate prices,
A lady friend who reads The Sem
tinel took me to task recently because
said that fruit would not grow in
low ground or in her section. | do
not recollect saying any such thing
and II | did it was a mistake. have
given instances from every section
of profitably kept orchards in order
to show that fruit will go in every
section: did say that fruit will
not succeed without personal atten-
tion and care, and that 1t will not sue
ceed where the roots of the the trees
are in water unless the land Is drain
ed. \ good deal OF land heretofore
set in fruit must be changed to other
things because of the rise of the wa
ter level. There are some orchards
located in cold spots where there Is
poor air drainage and there will be
frequent failures.
In few spots in the upper part of
the valley the peaches are killed to a
slight degree and within a few rods
all about those spots they are all alive.
This is due to poor air currents or
. To-, to tr
should be studied and less water us
ed or the trees pulled out. We have
got to study conditions of soil and
temperature If We make the most of
success. in setting out orchards. and
then we must give personal care to
the trees, just rs we must do to the
chickens, cattle. hogs or to any line
of products. There is no locality in
America that. will respond to careful
work so literally as an irrigated sec
ton, such as ours.
There is o spirit of optimism in the
air. and firm belief that we shall
have better times in this valley right
away. We have had one season Of
poor prices. one season of short
crops, and we have had very bad
bank failure and one of the rotten
est irrigation system Of construction
which would put
most sections out of business, but the
worst is over aud the recuperating
has begun and there is light ahead.
even for the Orchard Mesa situation.
An interesting item In connection
with the High Line construction came
TO me the past week. Ii is stated
that the government does not drop
its interest in the reclamation pro-
jects with their completion, but looks
after them and provides a system of
so that no danger from
seepage need he feared aud II it,
should appear steps are taken to
drain the lands. This has been done
in one of the projects
a few years ago farther
west, and there seems money avail
able for such work. The plant in this
valley will be provided with outlets
to take care of all such conditions. /
and this is one of the beneficial items