The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-15
TERRACE DISTRICT PROSPER
OUS-NEAR MONTE VISTA

The Terrace district southwest of
Alamosa makes specially of "Alfal-
ia, Pigs and Peas" and never has the
title been more appropriate than it is
this season. Drive in any direction
you please over the broad acres of
the district and alfalfa, peas and
pigs are everywhere.
Mr.. A w Anderson was here last
week looking after plowing that he is
having done in the Terrace district
just across the line in Conejos coun-
ty. He has two tractors at work
there. Two quarters of land are al
ready plowed and in all about two
thousand four hundred acres will be
put in shape for cropping next year.
All new land that has never before
been under cultivation. Mr.. Ander-
son lives in ColoradoSprings where
he is member of the firm of Ander-
son, Ord & Swope which built the La
Jara reservoir and finished the Ter
race reservoir and the canal system.
His faith in the district has never
faltered and he has never missed a
good opportunity to acquire land
there.
Earl Wilcox of Denver is another
great booster for the Terrace district
His farm down there known as the
wilcox Farm" is rapidly becoming
one of the beauty spots of the valley
Under the local management of Mr.
w II. Barley it is coming to market
with hundreds of hogs annually. Mr.
Wilcox takes a great personal pride
in the advaG of the whole dis
trict. Last year he gave a flag and
flag pole for the new school house
This year he has had water piped to
neat watering trough in the road
from big artesian we'll belonging to
Frank Golf. A pipe is arranged to
supply motor cars or water tanks and
large sign informs the public that
it is artesan water and the Terrace
district whose speciality is "Alfalfa
Pigs and Peas" lies to the south. Mr..
Wilcox negotiated the sale of the Ter
race district bonds which built its ir-
rigation system and he has been
consistent worker for its advance
ment ever since.
While the district has been organ
lied for number of years its be-
ginning dates only three years back
when the two reservoirs and system
of canals were finished that now sup
ply it with irrigation water.
This is the third big crop that the
district has experienced and the far
mers out there can see the light of
a brighter day. The second cutting
of alfalfa is. being harvested and the
yield for the season will average
three tons to the acre which will
bring about $4,000 per ton in the
stack. Not so bad for $4,000 land.
But it is in pasturing pigs and
lambs on peas and alfalfa that the
district shines. Hogs grow fast on
alfalfa pasture all summer long and
do little hurt to the field. If a farm
er wants to be real saving he leaves
his moving machine in the field and
cuts the hay every two or three days
and hauls it to his pigs confined in
small pens or yards.
Time was when people laughed if
any one said that hogs could be fat
tened on hay but the alfalfa growers
showed 'em" that it was one of the
most profitable feeds for hogs on the
farm.
After the peas are ripe in the Ter
race district the lambs come down
from the summer range in the noun
tains, are turned into the pea field
and they find every grain of oats or
peas even though it is tramped into
the ground. Hogs are finished in this
way ready for market.-Alamosa
Journal