Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-12-01
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

evidently there Ia also an increase
each year In the average number of
acres under cultivation FOR each farm.
Reports of county assessors to the
state Immigration Department show
that the average number of acres un.
der cultivation per faxm in the state
ms year was 1O2.55, compared with
lol.99 last year and 1OO67 acres in
l9l9. County assessors reported g.
.45 farms being operated in the state
In 1921. compared with 49,117 last year
and 4I,SSI in 1919. The actual number
| Of farms in the state is considerably
above the numbers here given, the CEN
sus having reported 59,934 farms on
january !. 1920. The number, how
ever, includes great many farms on
which no land is being cultivated, but
which are being used only for pasture
purposes. 1t is estimated that there
are not fewer than 5000 farms In
the state on which land is actually be-
ing cultivated each year. The in
crease in cultivated acreage per farm,
as shown by aSSessOrs' reports. Is due
chiefly to n gradual increase in the
acreage of winter wheat being grown
on eastern Colorado farms. In 1921
there was I'm average of 26.95 acres
of winter wheat reported for each farm
III the state, compared with 2O.o0
acres per farm reported for 1919.
Nearly all other crops show slight de-
crcaSrs in acreage reported per farm
In 1921 as compared with 1919.
A larger percentage of the acreage
in cultivation in 1921 was devoted to
wheat than to any other crop, approx
imat"ly one-ihird the cultivated area
being devoted to winter and spring
wheat combined. Corn ranks second
in this respect, with 1859 per cent,
and alfalfa third, with 1892 per cent.
The following percentages of the culti-
waited area are devoted to other lead
Ing crops: Oats. 513: barley, 4.4S;
rye. 231 SorGhums, COG; sugar beets,
3.1O. In many eastern Colorado cOun-
ties more than 40 per cent of the Gull
tivatcd acreage Is devoted to wheat.
the largest proportion being reported
for Phillips, which shows 1926 of its
cultivated area devoted to wheat Nine
counties in this section of the state
have more than 40 per cent each of
their cultivated areas assigned to
wheat.
Harry II. French, forest supervisor
of the Holy Cross Forest with head
quarters ut GlenwOod Springs. has
been transferred to the UncOmpahgre
National Forest with headquarters ut
Delta, Colo. He goes to the UncOm.
pahsre Forest with sixteen years eX-
perlence as IL forest officer, having
been appointed forest guard on the
Holy Cross National Forest In Novem-
Der 1905, and supervisor of the same
forest IL year later. which position he
has held up to this present time. The
UncOmpahgre is indeed fortunate to
secure man of such training and
ability to fill the plnce left vacant by
Supervisor letters, who resigned to
become head Of the forestry school at
Ames, Iowa.
Federal Judge Lewis ordered the
sale Of the airplune seized last June
when Eddie Brooks. its driver, was ar.
rested on the charge of transporting
liquor in 1t from Canada to Colorado.
The court denied the petition of the
Nebraska Airplane Corporation, which
claimed to be the innocent owner Of
the plane, for an order restoring 1t to
the concerns possession. Counsel for
the Nebraska company gave notice
that an appeal would be taken.
Candidates for the position of post
master of Denver must have their ap.
plications in the hands of the Civil
Service Commission at Washington on
nOuncement made by John G. TeiclIer,
district secretary of the commission.
The examinations will not be held un.
til some time in January.
Mrs. Celeste Hicks, SO years old, a
pioneer of upper Bear creek and wild.
0w of the late Daniel Hicks, who made
the Hicks ranch famous to sportsmen
and tourists, is dead at Morrison.
Illness caused by overwork is
thought by friends and faculty assO.
ciates to have led Miss Eva Baum to
take her life in the chemistry building
of the University OF Colorado mt BOul.
der. No notes or any other explana-
ton for the suicide have been found.
Her father came from Sulina, Kan.
The War Finance. Corporation an.
n0unced fifty-six government loans,
amounting to S2,O73,OOO, for agricul-
tural and live stock purposes. Among
the loans were: Wyoming, S436OOO !;
Iowa, $429,OOO: Nebraska, So, 1000 !;
Oregon, S23.OOO; Colorado, Sal 900 I;
Montana, S232, 900; Kansas, $4,000.
A charred body, identified by the au.
thorities as that of James Williams, II
years old, negro, veteran of the Civil
War, and member of the G. A. r.,
was found by firemen who responded
TO an alarm at the aged mans home at
Pueblo. The cause of the fire, which
did $500 damage, is unknown.
The Farmers mill and grain elevator
at Craig caught fire and was total
loss. The building is just outside the
city limits, and beyond reach Of the wa.
fer system The Co-Opprntivp Earners'