Pueblo chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 1921-07-31

crops every year what a real farmer
can do.
Again there is Mrs. VIM. NJ. Haines
who has lived on her homestead for
four years, has put her land under
cultivation and made substantial i'm
provements; who this year has corn
as high as the head of an average
man; and splendid garden with
everything in 1T that a person could
wish for. She is only one of the
sturdy women who have gone ont
there and conquered the land.
And now for the crops. 1t has
often been said that any dry farmer
could raise crops with the amount o.
rain that we have had this year but,
there have been crops every year out
in this man S country. In trip out
there during the past week there was
seen a big pile of corn in one farm
yard left over from last yearly the
way one of the dryest in history
and samples showed the corn to be
firm and the ears of good size,
But this year fields of wheat, so.
Affs lD' h'Afn III NlEf-tllf tl'hbh were
filled and the stems all of a good
height. And this where two years
ago there was not 30 acres of wheat
in the entire community. Fields of
corn, the stalks, five feet and more in
height, Just beginning to tassel and
showing that dark rich green which
spells a lusty growth, were a com
mon sight along the road.
Fields of potatoes varying in size
from one acre TO ten and with sam
pies showing new potatoes of the
size of a teacup and larger and with
. promise of very fair yield.
Field of dry land alfalfa that have
already yielded one cutting and that
is nearly ready for the third were
seen on some of the farms.
The Rattlesnake Buttes country
proper covers an area of about Is
miles in width and 20 miles in length
and lies west of the beautiful little
Cucharas river. II extends for a short
distance east of the buttes but the
main part lies between the buttes and
the river and has rocky cedar grown
hills for the northern and southern
boundaries. The land is rolling in
nature with here and there spots
covered with cedar, pine and pinon.
Among those whose ranches were
visited and who are among the many
making good livings from their
farms, acquired in many cases BY fill
,pc, ~, r,,,s.rpr,a,, Lard ,rd - ..b,,-s
bought for less than the market
value of the first crop, were John
Folk where there is along with other
crops a field Of 80 acres of Sudan
grass at least five feet high and
standing thick on the ground. Tho
ground on which this Sudan grass Is
being grown has only been broken
out of the sod for two years and wac
planted 10 Rye last year.
On yet another ranch where there
were crops of potatoes, corn, wheat.
rye, and alfalfa was that of c. II.
Schell who conducts the Rnttlesuakes
Buttes store and postoffice and who
only came to this country from Ne
hraska A wear ago. Mr.. Schell also has
a field of Bromis Inermis. more COM
monty known as Broom glass for
which he predicts great things. All
Of these crops are better this wear
than many of those grown on irri-
gated farms and shows what the
country will do.
Another ranch is that of the Stills
Brothers who have been instrumental
in bringing many people into tho
country and who arc backing up their
belief in It's possibilities by acquiring
all of he land they can buy. They
were among the first homestcnders
there and filed on land adding TO It
lnicr b, nurchnsn nnLll thrN now con.