The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1921-12-17
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Complete reports of county assessors
to The State Board of Immigration
show IL total of 3,I74 silos IN Colorado
on April ! of this year, compared with
5000 reported last year and 2,52S re-
ported for 1919. These reports are
somewhat short of the actual number
of sIos In the state ut the time they
were compiled, and IL considerable
number have been constructed since
April l. so TINT the actual number of
sioS completed ut this time Is very
close to 1000. Tie increase in silo con-
struction in the past two years has not
been quite so Srent rs II was during
the two preceding years, due chiefly to
unfnvOrable financial conditions, which
have Influenced farmers to keep their
expenditures down MS low as possible.
Forfy-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. The
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
hns been increasing steadily. Several
counties have doubled the number of
sil0s In their borders in the past three
years and some counties have in
creased them MS much as five fold,
while there nre comparatively few
counties In which there has not been
some increase.
w. +. 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
Among the exhibits from the Arkansas
valley Will be the Stonemoor Farm
herd OF Guernseys from Pueblo, II. d.
Rustlers Durocs from Pueblo, J.. C.
Grants Herefords from AvOndnle, the
American Beet Sugar Company OF
Rocky Ford. with their Holsteln herd
from Lamar; Otis Grow & Son of
Rocky Ford, with cnrlond of fat
hogs; the Amity Canal Model Dairy
of Holly with Holsteins, and no doubt
numerous other breeders who hnve
The board of directors Of the Civic
and Commercial Association Of Denver
voted to conduct campaign to raise
fund for the purchase Of stock Of
the Live Stock Finance Corporation
so that organization could function
and borrow money from the War
Finance Corporation to be loaned to
1I,.a u,,I hot Ind fPU
In Colorado. The board was asked to
raise fund OF 100000, but the board
did not name any sum that should he
raised. 1t plans to raise all that 1t
can, and named committee that rep
resents all the various business ele-
ments of Denver to conduct the cam
palgn.
The Pueblo Typographical Union Mt
Pueblo. Colo, served notice on the
State Industrial Commission Of q pro-
posed Increase of 80 cents daily, to he
demanded after Jan. ]. According to
members Of the commission, this Is the
first instance In months that notice
OF wage increase has been served
on TINT body. This step was decided
upon by the union Mt meeting Of its
members at Pueblo. Pueblo newspapers
only will be affected.
OIL and gasoline consumption In
Colorado reached I, 639. 300 gallons dur
ing November, State OH Inspector
Duce reported. The state tax upon
this quantity. collected at the rate of
cent per gallon, amounted to SIC, 393.
Half OF this sum goes to the State
Highway Commission and the other
half Is distributed among the counties
on a basis Of state highway mileage.
Jackrabbits, fleeing from pursuit, at
tain speed Of fifty miles m hour for
the first mile, Colorado Springs Motor
cycle Club officials reported at the con-
cluslon Of a cross-country chase in
which the rabbit was run down Mt 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-fivc miles an hour.
The reports OF county assessors
show that there were 4,407 farm trac-
tors owned and operated by farmers In
the state this spring, compared with
1913 reported for last year, and 2,253
for 1910. The use OF tractors In the
general farming districts of eastern
Colorado has been increasing very rap
idly in the pnst three years, md 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 5Oi tractors re-
ported, md Logan county ranks sec
ond, with 431. There arc 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