The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-03
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

pOrtant Colorado crops the sthle lih-
migration department has been hpie
to show during the current year that
the acreage of land in cultivation In
Colorado is far in excess OF what thOse
best Informed regarding agricultural
development have believed 1t to be-
These reports show that the area in
cultivation in the state this year, In
Guiding native hay but not including
orchards, is approximately 5,5OO,0Oo,
or fully 100000 acres more than has
been shown by the estimates for any
preceding year. The Increase In cul-
tlvated area in the state in the past
few years has been so rapid that those
whose task it has been to keep records
on agricultural development have
been unable to show the full extent OF
the growth. The census bureau showed
but 2614,000 acres in cultivation ten
years ago The United States Bureau
of Crop Estimates showed but 6Oo,Ooo
acres of wheat harvested in the state
in 1916 whereas the records prepared
by county assessors show that more
than 100000 acres was harvested this
year. The records of the same bureau
showed but 27,000 acres of rye har-
vested in the state in 1916, while coun-
ty assessors records show approx
mately $4,000 acres harvested in 1919.
Since this was the first year records
of this character ever prepared
by county assessors it is fair to as
sumo that they are not so complete as
they will be in the future. Data of
this character is especially important
In state where agricultural develop
ment is very rapid, as it has been in
Colorado in the past ten years.
When the doors open January 18th
for the fourteenth annual exposition
of the National Western Stock Show
there will be gathered in Denver the
greatest winter crowd that ever has
gathered in the capital city. Hotel ac-
comodations are ample but 1t behooVes
those who anticipate coming to arrange
Accommodations in advance. The ad-
vice of the stock show management is
that people write to Denver Tourist
Bureau and have them assign rooms
for them The bureau will have agents
at the union depot to meet travellers
and conduct them to their rooms. This
year for the first time the National
Western has cut loose and is running
the show free from the stock yards
management Additional property has
been Purchased and the ground used in
erecting Il building for cattle. Space
has been prepared for 600 head OF
purebread exhibition cattle. From this
one gets hint of the size and charac-
ter of the live stock show now assured.
The new cattle building at the stock
show grounds in Denver is thoroughly
up-to-date. 1t contains ample provi-
sions for barbering and manicuring
blue-blood stock for the show ring. Six
hundred registered Herefords and
Shorthorps will he housed in the build
ing They are gathering from all over
the United States. Two famous herds
are entered from Montana, the A. b.
Cook herd from Townsend and the
Wallis Huidekoper herd from Wallis.
The last is n newcomer at the Denver
shows. Mr. Huidekopper will bring car
of registered Hereford calves and
car of yearling bulls. At the Interna-
tional at Chicago last month he pur-
chased for S3,2O0 Wyoming Image"
yearling bull sired by Blayneys "Wyo-
ming"
With the interior or her home a rag
ing furnace and the building doomed to
destruction, near Walden, Colo, Mrs.
Edward With managed to drag her
three little children to safety and then,
herself and babies, thinly clad, started
for the Leatherman ranch, half mile
away, where it was found that the lit
tie second son, aged years, had froz-
en- his hands and arms to the elbows.
Large herds of antelope are reported
to be feeding on hay and straw in the
Dover district, in northern Colorado,
to the annoyance and loss to the farm
ers in that section. The antelopes have
been driven from the hills by deep
snow and the freezing of water courses.
In some cases the antelopes have
mingled with domestic cattle and tried
to eat food put out for the latter.
DIR. Charles ID. Spivak, Denver ply
sician and one of the founders of the
Jewish Consumptive Relief Society,
left Denver for New York City, where
he will join other members of a jew
ish war sufferers relief unit to do re-
construction work in the devastated
countries in Europe. DIR. Spivak is
commissioner of health and sanitation
of the. unit and will make reports of
conditions as he finds them.
County Farm Agent Ben II. King, in
his annual report to the farm bureau
of Montrose county shows that the
farmers of Montrose county are in
probably the most prosperous condition
in the history of this section. His re-
port indicates many new innovations
which have been tried successfully and