The Keota news., 1921-12-09
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to tAS ssats Board at Immigration
show Q total Of s.77l slios is Colorado
on AIvil I Of this year. compared With
$500 reported last year snd 2.59S re-
pertod for 1919. These reperts are
sonsHhat shsrt of the actsal number
Of silQs IN the state at the time they
were compiled. aud . considerable
number have bsss Constructed since
April !. % that the actual number OF
slIos conplstsd st this tims 10 very
close to 1000. TIE Increase in silo coa'
stsuctlsn IN the past two years has not
i,eea quite 70 great % 1t was during
the tive preceding years, due chiefly to
uufavosable financial conditions, whlci,
have influsaced farmers to keep their
expsntitures down % low % possible.
Fsrty:tw0 ef the slxty.thrse counties
In the state BOW rspsft silos. the Hun..
iers reported fer the various counties
rangiAg from TIVE to IA. Weld coun.
~ rsoorts the largest nSmbsr. TIE
leading dairy farming districts OF the
state have moro silss than other dis.
tricts. .bst In the past few years the
number In geseral farming districts
has been increasing steadily. Several
counties have doubled the Aunber Of
xilos In their borders In the past three
years and some coaatIss have In.
creased them a. much ~ five fold,
whils there are comparatively few
counties In which there lsas not been
some increase.
". +. Droye. county agricultural
agent Of Otsro county at Rocky Ford.
and secretary Of the Arkansas Valley
Live Steck Brssaers' Association, re!
ports that unusual Interest 10 being
taken In the valley this year In the
comiaG Natioasl Wsstesn Stock Show.
Asnen0 the exhibits from the Arkansas
valley viii be the Stsssmoor Farm
herd u 01srnseys from Pueblo. II. d.
Rusalses .Durscs froM Pueblo. l.. &.
OraatS nssscerds from Avoadale. the
Anosicau Deet 01Gar Ce0peoy Ut
hecky Ford. With their aeesteia herd
frsua, lamar: Otis Grow 4 Sea Of
Rocky Fsrsl. with Q casloaA Of fat
hsgs:: the Amity Canal Model Dairy
Of Nelly with Holsteias. and no doubt
numerous other breeders who have
not yet announced their inteatiooa
Tive hoard Of directors Of the Civic
aud Commercial Association of Denver
voted to conduct Q campaisn to raise
Q fund for the purchase Of stock Of
the Live Stock Finance Corporation
~ that equalization could function
aud borrow money from the War
Finance Cooperation to re leaned TO
live stock Snen and save that Industry
In CoiesaAo. The board was asked to
raise . fuad Of e20o00a bSe the board
did not name any sum that should be
raised. Il plans to raise all that It
eau, aud named Q committee that rep
resents all the various business ele-
ments Of Denver to conduct the cam.
paiGn.
The Pueblo typographical Union At
Pueblo, Colo, served notice on the
state Industrial Commission Of pro.
poeed increase Of 80 ceats daily. to be
demanded after Jan. !. According to
members Of the commission. this In the
first Instance In months that potIce
Of . wage increase has beea served
on that body. This step was decided
upon BY the union At meeting Of It's
members III Pueblo. Pueblo newspapers
only will bc affected.
OH and gasoline consumption In
Colorado reached 7.soo, 800 GALLONS dur.
ing November, State OH Inspector
Duce reported. The state tax upon