The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-28
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

falling prices ana ihontA Niihh'"~''
the farmers of Colorado viii cultivate
fully as large an acreage to crops TINS
year ns they did In 1920. Reports so
fur received show that the cultivated
area this yonr will be but little short
OF 6.OOO.OOO acres. County assessors
reported on 40.117 farms in the state
last year. Reports have been tnbu-
lated up TO date this year on 1l,624
farms. These farms. for eleven of the
leading crops. report an acreage this
year of l.105,0i3. or little more than
1O2 ncres per furm. The entire acre
age reported for these crops last year
was 4,192. .5l2. or a little more than
eighty acres peg farm. If all farms
this year should report these crops In
the same ratio as those already in, the
total acreage would be above 5,OOO,OOO
The crops included in the figures given
above are corn, oats, barley, winter
wheat. spring wheat, rye, potatoes,
grain sorghums, sweet sorghums, beans
and alfalfa.
Three boys were drowned In the
Bnrtels reservoir, small lake seven
acres in area, located one mile south
of Greeley, when the flat boat in which
they and two companions were pad
ding across the small body of water
sank. The three youth are Oliver
Brennan, 13 years old; Marvin DoEey,
16, and Albert Tinker, 10. All of the
boys resided in Evans. John Miller,
13 years old, and Timothy O'Grndy, 10
years old, who We're in the boat with
the other three, swan to safety when
the tiny craft sank.
w. l.. Burnett, in charge of rodent
control of the state, and his assistant,
C. L. Corkins, with the local county
agent. Waldo Kidder, have completed
a check of the work done in pest eradi-
cation in Adams county. County farm
ers have been saved from $175,0OO to
100000. Mr.. Burnett says, by the eX-
termination work thus far completed.
More than 125,0o0 acres have been
baited to date. and, with the territory
now under poisoning 100000 will have
been treated.
Seven graduates left the high school
at Berthoud and received diplomas.
DR.. ]. Lakeland delivered the address,
and every one of the graduates was
presented with a scholarship for eX-
cellence in studies. Two were given
scholarships in the State Teachers
| College, one in the State University,
| one in the Agricultural College, one in
the School of Mines, one in Colorado
College and one in Denver University.
Arrangements have been made by
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Colorado School of Mines for the estab-
lishment of Il practical mine at Idaho
| Springs for demonstration work to the
| students of the school this summer. Mi
ami tunnel is to be used Mine sur
veying, tool sharpening and practical
mining will be INDUCED in by the stu
dents, under the direction of Dean L..
S. Grant and Prof, James Underhill.
Colorado and the West will have the
greatest tourist travel in the history
of railroad transportation this sum
mer, according to statement made
by H. T. Cornell, division passenger
agent of the American Express Com
pany travel department for the terri
tory between Denver and the Pacific
coast, with headquarters in San Fran
cisco.
One woman is dead and heavy dam
age is reported to buildings and fences
as the result of high wind north of
Seibert. Mrs. Frank Robinson, a
farmers wife, was killed when the
wind blew down n chicken house. Mrs.
Robinson, according to reports, had
rushed out of the house to try TO pro
tect her chickens from the storm.
Curtis Haupt, senior in the Colorado
Springs High School, was awarded a
four-year scholarship in Colorado Col
lege by the local Kiwanis Club The
scholarship goes TO Haupt as the most
proficient student in physics in class
of 1872.
Partial reports from county asses
sors received by the State Immigrn-
ton Department Indicate that the
acreage of winter wheat in Colorado
this year is fully as large as that last
wear and perhaps slightly larger. Par
tial reports to date have been received
from twenty-five counties, several of
which already have reported more win
ter wheat than their complete reports
showed for last year
The sixth and eighth grades of Gar
field school at Loveland, with mem
bership of forty-two and thirty-nhe
students, respectively, have main
tained perfect record during the en-
tire nine months of the school year,
and not single case of tardlness or
absence was recorded during the en-
tire year. This is record for Love
land schools.
Robert Bishop, 15-year-old son of III.
NJ. Bishop of the Riverside section
near Montrose, is dead as direct re-
suit of n fall four weeks ago from the
roof of the house onto pump handle,