Gunnison news-champion., 1921-09-30

". H. Oliu in Record S,octman;-
For years s;ocLcnan have known
hat the high altitude grasses are
more nutritious than grasses growing
at lower attitudes Hunter, Castle &
Hunter years ago made Il a practice
70 turu their steers to market grass
Fat in the late summer or early fall.
from their EncampuDent. Wyoming
ranch. Their market was Omaha AT
that time and these steers seldom fail
4 To top the market because Of their
superior quality.
Prof. II. G.. knight. now dirctor of
the Oklahoma Experimental Station,
was for years chemist Of Wyoming
Station. Once he drove the writer 10
an emineuee in Wyoming and said:
"Olin, you sec that short, stubby
mountain grass ! have aHalyzed il
in the laboratory and tested il in the
feed lot Pound for pound, il is equal
to bran in feed value"
Now. We are beginning TO realize
that these higher attitudes, where soil
and lay Of land are suitable, grow
table vegetables of superior excellence
as well a grass. For years field peas
have been grown for stock food pu-
poses with most excellent results
Zach year car loads Of table peas are
groWu for market IN these old Rocky
mountains. 5000 feet and above. They
are grown as pod peas to be snapped
and cooked rs green peas. Producers
tell the writer that grown in these
higher attitudes. the pods are more
brittle and the peas seem TO contain
more sugar and are therefore sweeter
With q favor Of their own
Produce dealers have also encourag-
ID the growing Of cauliflower in these
higher attitudes. When properly talk
IN care of, heads Of caulifUwer arc
produced weighing several pounds
and are as white as snow with heads
6, s. and in i few instances 10 inches
in diameter The mountain cauli-
flower Is so crisp and has so desirable
a favor that repeat orders follow
every initial sale.
Mr.. Fort, on his celery farm at
CcleTyvale near Brighton, has de-
nonstrated in every market to which
he has sent it, the excellence Of Colo
RADIO celery. Kalamazoo celery for
years reigned supreme on South
Water Street market, Chicago. one of
the great fruit and vegetable mar
kets Of this or any other country. Mr..
Fort brought his Celeryyale lettuce
into competition and secured prem
iun over all for superior quality and
favor Now this desirable vegetable
is being grown successfully at even
above 5000 feet elevation in our
Colorado Rockies. But perhaps the
greatest commercial hit in vegetable
lines has been high altitude or noun
tain lettuce We perhaps realize that
head lettuce has come 10 take the
place of all other forms of lettuce for
table use and for salads. The Ameri-
can and Canadian housewife will be
content with no other types of let
tuce. So great has been the demand
that the plant breeder" has been
working over time to produce those
types that viii meet altitude and the
changing climatic conditions in vari-
Gus parts of our extensive country.
This has given rise to many varieties
or kinds OF head lettuce. What will
do in Southern California, where the
head lettuce has become most inn
portant commercial crop, giving two
lettuce crops each year, does not do so
well in the different climatic condi-
tons of the Seattle and Puget Sound
district, at practically the same ele-
.vation-sea level. They now have the
unit type that has made their COM
merciai success. What succeeds at
Seattle we have no assurance will
give similar crop success in our noun
tain elevations. 1t all has to be work
ed out. Gardeners have recognized