The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-11
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

tlon. In order to be successful a Co
operative Organization must he founded
on definite, well-felt need. There
must be some real service to perform ;
some economic saving or Improvement
TO result. The call for organized eff
fort should come from those desiring
to form and unite with the association.
Local conditions must be such as TO
make organized marketing advisable,
A Farmers Cooperative Exchange
should not be called into existence un-
less there is some real service to per-
form-either because of lack of local
marketing facilities, or of failure to
secure the full market value of their
produce, or for other vital reasons
or because it can perform that service
with greater efficiency and with less
wastefulness than existing agencies.
There has been rains in most sec
,Ions of Colorado in the past two
weeks which have put the soil in ex-
cellent shape for fall plowing and this
work is farther advanced than it usu-
ally is at this season of the year. Re-
| ports received by the Colorado Coop
| erative Crop Reporting Service indi-
| cate that the amount of winter wheat
| planted this fall will be somewhat less
than that planted in 1918, which was
| the largest crop of winter wheat ever
| planted in the state. Tine season was
unfavorable for winter wheat in most
sections of the state this year and
many farmers who were dissatisfied
| with the yields obtained will grow less
| wheat this year, while certain
| g ,f,,. I,af l.a
price of wheat may he next year is APP
parently influencing n few farmers to
| decrease their acreage.
| A total of $3.50 has now been al
| lowed to weak school districts from
the special S150000 fund created by
| the Twenty-secOnd General Assembly
| since it became operative last May.
Bent county, apparently the weakest
of all counties in regard TO school rev
enues and property, has received S4,-
| 10 of this total for twelve different
| districts. Other recipients of this fin
ancial aid were; Custer county, $3.50,
Sept. 27th; Eagle, $500, Aug. 4th; El
Paso, S720, Oct 9th; jefferson, $500,
Oct. 9th; Larimer, $420, May 9th
Washington, $3.50, in September, and
| Yuma, $40, Sept. 18th. The special
fund is designed to aid districts in pay
ing teachers the salaries required by
| law after they have exhausted all other
legal means of raising revenues for
Besides winning the sweepstakes in
the potato display for the fourth con-
| secutive year, Colorado won two other
sweeps, seventeen first prizes, eleven
seconds and ten thirds ut the Four
teenth International Soil Products ex-
position at Kansas City Judging of
agricultural exhibits has just been
completed, and though comparative
figures have not yet been compiled. 1t
is believed in the department that this
state carried off more -honors than any
other, or any Canadian province.
Administration, as well as fire pro-
lection, of national forests by wireless
telephone is the most recent innovation
attempted by the Denver district of the
forest service. Two field sets of wire
less telephones, designed for the signal
| corps of the army, have been received
at the Denver forest service headquar-
| ters.
The permanent state school fund
| WAS lUcEedSeu ny Nol,Joo.Oo tIiOhtsh
auction sale by the State Land Board
| of 6,559 acres of state school land
The sections sold are situated in Baca,
Washington, Douglas, Moffat, Logan,
| Prowers, Rio Grande, Elbert, Lincoln,
Morgan and Montezuma counties.
Fire causing $4,000 loss and the de-
struction of the Burlington hotel, a
butcher shop, a garage and several
smaller buildings at Grover. A new
fire department recently installed is
believed to have saved the town from
destruction. 1t is not known how the
fire started.
As a result of the excellent work
done by county assessors in Colorado
this year in the collection of statistics
showing the acreage of the various
crops grown in the several counties,
the State Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service will be able this year for the
| first time to determine with reasonable
accuracy the production of all crops by
counties, instead of only for the state
as a whole.
The National Wholesale Grocers' As
sociatiOn, comprising brokers and man
ufacturers, will hold its 1920 cOnven-
ton in Colorado Springs, starting June
Z, according to an official announce
nfent made by A. II. Beckman, general
secretary of the association, who has
been in that city making arrangements.
Preparations will be made for handling
1000 delegates and their wives.
State Treasurer MulniX has called in
s175,OOO of the $685., 900 issue of na-
tional defense bonds put out by the
Gunter administration in 1917 to raise
funds for Colorado's part in the nation