The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1921-12-10
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

ell In Colorado from year 10 yeur, ous
evidently there Is also IN Increase
each year In the average number Oh
acres under cultivation for each farm.
Reports of county assessors to the
State Immigration Department show
that the average number of acres un-
der cultivation per farm in the state
this year was 1925. compared with
lO1.9O last year and 1O087 acres IN
1919. County assessors reported o.
245 farms being operated In the state
In 1921. compared with 49,117 last year
and 47.SS7 in 1910. The actual number
Of farms In the stite IL considerably
above the numbers here given, the CEN
sus having reported 59.034 farms on
January /, 1920. The number, how
ever. includes great many farms on
which no land Is being cultivated. but
which nre being used only for pasture
purposes. 1t Is estimated that there
IRE not fewer than 5000 farms In
the state on which land Is actually be-
Ing cultivated each year. The In
crease In cultivated acreage per farm,
us shown by assessors' reports, Is due
chiefly to gradual increase In the
acreage Of winter wheat being grown
IN eastern Colorado farms. In 1921
there was IN average of 1906 acres
Of winter wheat reported for anch farm
in the state, compared with 9O.2O
ncrcs per farm reported for 1910.
Nearly NIL other crops show slight de-
crcases In acreage reported per farm
in 1921 as compared with 1919.
A larger percentage of the acreage
in cultivation In 1921 was devoted to
wheat than to any other crop. approx
imately one-third the cultivated area
being devoted to winter and spring
wheat combined. Corn ranks second
In this respect, with 1859 per cent,
md alfalfa third, with 11.92 per cent.
The following percentages Of the cult
waited area are devoted to other lead
ing crops: Oats, 5.13; barley, AS;
rye. 2.37 sorghums. G.OG; sugar beets,
$40. In many eastern Colorado cOun-
ties more than 40 per cent Of the Gull
tivuted acreage is devoted to wheat,
the largest proportion being reported
for Phillips, which shows 59.25 of Its
cultivated area devoted to wheat. Nine
counties in this section of the state
have more than 40 per cent each of
their cultivated areas assigned to
wheat. .
Harry II. French. forest supervisor
Of the Holy Cross Forest with head
quarters at GlenwOod Springs. has
been transferred to the UncOmpahgre
National Forest with headquarters ut
Delta, Colo. He goes to the Uncom-
pahgrs Forest with sixteen years ex-
pcrlence as forest officer. having
been appointed forest guard on the
Holy Cross National Forest In Novem-
Der 1905, md supervisor of the same
forest n year later, which position he
has held up to this present time. The
Uncompahgre Is indeed fortunate to
secure a man OF such training and
ability to fill the place left vacant by
Supervisor LETTERS, who resigned to
become head of the forestry school at
Ames. Iowa.
Federal Judge Lewis ordered the
sale Of the nirplane seized last June
when Eddie Brooks, Its driver, was ar
rested on the charge of transporting
liquor In 1t from Canada to Colorado.
The court denied the petition of the
Nebraska Airplane Corporation. which
claimed to be the innocent owner of
the plane, for IN order restoring 1t to
the concerns possession. Counsel for
the Nebraska company gave notice
that nm appeal would be taken.
Candidates for the position of post
master OF Denver must have their up.
plications In the hands of the Civil
Service Commission at Washington on
or before Dec. 20, according to an an
nouncement made by John G. Teicher,
district secretary Of the commission.
The examinations will not be held un-
til some time in January.
Mrs. Celeste Hicks, 80 years old, n
pioneer of upper Bear creek and Wild
the Hicks ranch famous to sportsmen
and tourists, Is dead at Morrison.
Illness caused by overwork Is
thought by friends and faculty 1850
ciates to have led Miss Eva BAUM to
take her life In the chemistry building
of the University of Colorado Mt Boul-
der. No notes or any other explana-
ton for the suicide have been found
Her fatheS, came from Sallna, Kan.
The Wlr Finance Corporation an
nounced fifty-six government loans,
amounting to $2,073,OO0. for agricul-
tural and live stock purposes. Among
the loans were: Wyoming, $436,OO0;
Iowa, $4k0,OOO; Nebraska, $4,000 !;
Oregon. s23.OOO; Colorado, 1900 :;
Montana. $4,000; Kansas. $4,000.
A charred body, Identified by the au-
thorities MS that of James Williams, II
years old, negro, veteran of the Civil
War, and member Of the G. A. r.,
was found by firemen who responded
to nm alarm Mt the aged mans home Mt
Pueblo. The cause Of the fire, which