Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-30
FARMERS0F PUEBLO COUNTY
NOW need WORD OF CHEER
Search for Silver Lining to the Blue Cloud May Not
Be in Vam-What is Most Needed Just
Now Is Brains

1t is all mighty fine for the city
people to boast of Pueblo as a
weather island and enjoy their
series of picnics and pleasure drives
but how about tho farmers who have
seen only one rain that might be
called real shower in over seven
months?
1t is pleasant for the town dwellers
To luxuriate in butter and eggs at rs
cents. but how about the toilers out in
the country. who had been grubbnG
along on the ragged edge thru the
dry and unpromisinG winter hoping
that when spring came there would
he a turn of some kind in their favor
Instead OF n turn for the producers,
the situation is against them more
and more. as to income. tho perhaps
more favorable as regards the OBJ
tanning of supplies.
All very pleasant to sit at table
and write on the optimistic side Of
1T wnhc the real farmer takes the
direct blaze of the hot sun.
Not only have the butter and eggs
fallen to, incredibly small figures but
the prices for meats are altogether in
favor Of tho consumer, retail quota
tions at tho butcher shop being alb
rurdly low.
Alfalfa held over for eight and nine
months has not only lost half in
weight but lost one third in market
value.
A wonderful system OF transporta-
ton has in the last three years been
built up in the wide region east Of
the mountains and south of the
diVids >. by which butterfat is hustled in
from the most remote sections AWAY
out on the plains and moved rapidly
by truck and train to the butter max
ing centcrs But now in tho last few
weeks all this excellent system faces
the fact of rapidly declining prices
Not only have butter and cream be-
como very cheap but from hidden
stores or warehouses appears enor-
NOUS quantities Of canned cream Of
fared as low as 10 cents.
Now Hear From The Other Side
Rnt turn around and listen a mo-
r1ent to the negative side in this de-
bate
~ la Iunts tho Libby company ha7
for some time been threatening to
olosc its great creamery because the
amounts sent in are insufficient. II
warts tho uuantity of receipts OF
cream doubled. pr more 1t Is a
rrobleu not OF prices but Of quaint
ties.
AZ Rocky Ford and Las Anirnas and
Sugar ,'its. tsr sugar companies Of
ferod what they regarded as fair.
usual and even unusual terms FOR tho
seasons heets. but were turned down
nv the farmers. who rejected them.
apparently. in assembly. tho after
ward as individuals SO many growers
signed up thr at least two or inc
factories are likely to run.
Al Canon City. the frost having
killed the fruit. the big cannery has
been making strenuous efforts to in
duce enough farmers TO grow toma-
toes to insure n run Of canning work.
the company to supply the plants,
but at last accounts thorc were not
enough in sight
In the main cities of Texas tho food
iobbers have about given US up as =
homeless case. In late summer ana
early fall they want to buy colorado
vegetables not by wREonloads but
literally by trainloads. hut cannot got
them.
The Country Around Pueblo
In the last week tho May rise Of
Tho Arkansas river became quite
visible. at least two weeks behind
time on account Of the cool nights
and backward spring in the noun
tairs. but II "a not the Ercnt generous
Flow we expect the river 10 give us
at this tire Of tho year. The Foun-
ain creek has plenty of water but IN
not counted on for anything this side
tho vi Psso line. Practically all
bitches In tho county have up To this
week been very low. tho amount of
water everywhere is scant and In
general way the farm outlook has
heon far from satisfactory both as to
production and sale.
The one strong point remaining is
the stiff and excellent prices Of