The Ordway new era., 1921-12-16
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Complete reports of county assessors
to the State Board of immigration
show a total of 3,I74 silos in Colorado
on April of this year, compared WIN
5000 reported last year and 2,oZo re-
ported for 1919. These reports are
somewhat short of the actual huinper
of silos in the state at the time they
were compiled. and n considerable
number have been constructed since
April 1, so that the actual number OF
silos completed at this time is very
close to 1000 The increase in siio CON
struction in the past two years mas NOT
been quite so great as 1t was during
the two preceding years. due chiefly 10
unfavorable financial conditions, which
have Influenced farmers TO keep their
expenditures down as low as possible
Forty-two of the sixty-three counties
in the state now report silos, the num-
bers reported for the various counties
ranging from two to 523. Weld coun-
ty reports the largest number. Inc
leading dairy farming districts OF the
state have more silos than other dis-
tricts. but in the past few years the
number in general farming districts
has been increasing steadily. Several
counties have doubled the number of
silos in their borders in the past three
years and some counties have in
creased them as much as five fold,
while there are comparatively few
counties in which there has not been
some increase.
The reports of county assessors
show that there were 4.49T farm trac-
tors owned and operated by farmers in
the state this spring, compared with
3.613 reported for last year. and 2,233
for 1919. The use of tractors in the
general farming districts of eastern
Colorado has been increasing very rap
idly in the past three years, and there
has been a steady increase in other
districts. This year there were only
six counties in the state that reported
no farm tractors, all of them being
mining counties, in which very little
farming is being done. Weld county
holds first place, with 5O4 tractors re,
ported, and Logan county ranks sec
ond. with 431. There are now thirteen
counties in the state reporting more
than 100 farm tractors each. Ten
counties which reported no farm trac-
tors in 1919 have reported from one
to twenty each this year. Kit Carson
county, which reported twenty-six
tractors in 1919 reports 226 this year.
Colorado exhibitors of agricultural
products at the International Grain
and Hay Show, held at Chicago. won
forty-nine prizes, including five firSts,
four seconds, six thirds and sweep
stakes on corn in what is known at
the show as region six, which includes
the western part of Kansas and all of
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona,
Nevada and California. In the ten-ear
exhibits of both yellow and white dent
corn and in the single-ear exhibits for
region six, Colorado won all the prizes
offered, which were five in each case.
Colorado also took first in oats and
two-rowed barley the barley compet-
ton being open to the entire United
States and Canada and the oats com
petition being confined to district six.
Oil and gasoline consumption in
Colorado reached 7,639,300 gallons dur
ing November, State Oil Inspector
Duce reported The state tax upon
this quantity, collected at the rate of
/ cent per gallon, amounted to $76,393.
Half of this sum goes to the State
Highway Commission and the other
half is distributed among the counties
on basis of state highway mileage.
Jackrabbits, fleeing from pursuit, at
tain a speed of fifty miles an hour for
the first mile, Colorado Springs Motor
cycle Club officials reported at the con-
clusion of a cross-country chase in
which the rabbit was run down at the
end of five miles. In the second mile
the rabbit made forty-mile speed and
in the last three miles slowed down to
thirty-five miles an hour.
Two small gold nuggets were found
while men were excavating for bun
galow on Lookout mountain, about one
mile from the Cody monument, accord
ing to Joseph Setter of Denver, owner
of the land.
w. F. Droge, county agricultural
agent of Otero county at Rocky Ford,
and secretary of the Arkansas Valley
Live Stock Breeders Association, re-
ports that unusual interest is being
taken in the valley this year in the
coming National Western Stock Show.
Among the exhibits from the Arkansas
valley will be the StonemOor Farm
herd of Guernseys from Pueblo, H. D.
Rustler's Durocs from Pueblo, L. C.
Grants Herefords from Avondale, the
American Beet Sugar Company of
Rocky Ford, with their Holstein herd
from Lamar; Otis Grow & Son of
Rocky Ford, with carload of fat
hogs;; the Amity Canal Model Dairy
of Holly with Holsteins, and no doubt
numerous other breeders who have
not yet announced their intentions.