Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-11-26
CROPS IN STATE
BREAK RECORDS
According to Reports from
All Parts of Colorado
SHOWS UNEXAMPLED
PROSPERITY COMING
Expert Finds Era of
Remarkable Growth J. Thruout
State Forecast by Yield

State Forecast by Yield
The largest crop yield in the
history of Colorado, including n
record livestock production, has
been made this year, according to
advance figures and reports re-
ceived from all parts of the state
by agricultural experts.
The first payment of the grow
ers of this years great sugar beet
crop was made Monday, Nov. u,
when Si,O00.O0O was distributed.
This is greater than the first pay
ment made last year, or any prev
ious year, and is one evidence of
the unprecedented prosperity in
this state.
This is Colorado's banner
year." said Lou d. Sweet, agri-
culturalist and practical farmer,
in his Office in Denver last Satur-
day:
THE splendid and unprecedented record
made this year seems to be but the fore
runner of an era OF growth and develop
ment in farming and agricultural way
in the state such as no one has hitherto
anticipated.
Farmers are realizing the worth OF land
here, and. better still, are bringing and
using advanced methods in selection of
seed and in crop production.
Diversified farming is bringing to the
production of crops a certainty that is
attracting others to the Soil of Colorado
"On the whole" continued Mr.. Sweet.
''the general conditions thruout the state
warrant the conclusion that this is the
best year that the state has had in
agriculture and livestock. Coed crops
have obtained thruout the state and fair
prices have been received.
The most wonderful development of
the year has been the remarkable show
ing made in eastern Colorado on nom
irrigated lands-a section which few
years ago was regarded as practically
impossible in a farming way.
But the present farmer practices up
to-date methods of soil culture. with the
result that crops as good as those grown
in Illinois. Iowa or other established
farm areas are produced now IN that
wonderful empire of present accomplish
ment and future promise in eastern Colo
rado.
Crops have been well above the aver
age on the irrigated sections on the east
ern slope. There has been a big increase
in the beet tonnage and the content value
of the beet.
Favorable finishing weather brought
the potato crop in the Greeley district
up to double the expected production. and
other late crops were materially aided by
the late coming of frost.
The driest year that the state has
known obtained on the western slope. but
most of the ranches in that region have
water from the main stream and no in
convenience occurred.
The wet conditions obtaining thruout
Kansas. Nebraska and other wheat pro-
ducing regions in the west and the late
maturing of the crop has given an i'm
petus to flour mills, every mill, in the
state has been running at full capacity
for the last forty days and will continue
at full capacity for another month to fill
the orders that are coming in.
Tne San Luis valley is ra pidly coming
to the front as an agricultural center.
All of the crops in the region produced
abundantly this year, and up to last
Saturday night L464 cars of potatoes
had been shipped from the valley.
The unusual success attending farming
results in various parts of the state are
due largely to care in the selection of seed
to scientific culture methods.
O=e of the biggest sources OF revenue
to the state has been the purchase of
horses for use in the European war.
Practically all of the surplus horses in
the state have been purchased by foreign
horse buyers at fair prices. realizing an
enormous sum in the aggregate.
The first OF the growers revenue from
the big sugar beet crop was received by
them Monday, when something like
S4.o0o,o00 was paid them.
The amounts paid this year are greater
than those paid in 1914. as the rate
of payment established by the sugar
companies is the same. and there is an
acreage that does not vary much from
that Of last year. In some neighborhoods
the acreage is larger, and in all the beets
are reported to have better percentages