Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-12-08
COLORADO NEWS NOTES,

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3,3O3 reported last year and 2,52S re-
ported for 1919. These reports are
somewhat short Of the actual number
Of silos in the state ut the time they
were compiled, and considerable
number have been constructed since
April l, so that the actual number of
silos completed. ut this time IL very
close to. 1900. The increase in siio con-
structiOn In the past two years has not
been quite so great as it was during
the two preceding years, due chiefly to
unfavorable financial conditions, which
have Influenced farmers to keep their
expenditures down as low as possible.
FOrty-twO Of the sixty-three counties
In tile 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
lins been increasing steadily. Several
counties have doubled the number of
silOs In their borders in the past three
years and some counties have in
creased them as much as five fold,
while there are comparatively few
counties in which there has not been
some increase.
w. f. 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
coming National Western Stock Show
Among the exhibits from the Arkansas
valley will he the StonemOor Farm
herd of Gucrnscys from Pueblo, Fl. d.
RustlerS Durocs from Pueblo, l.. C.
Grants HcrcfOrds from AvOndale, the
American Beet Sugar Company of
Rocky Ford. with their HOlstein herd
from Lamar: Otis Grow & Son of
Rocky Ford. with II carload of fat
hogs: the Amity Canal Model Dairy
of Holly with Holsteins, and no doubt
numerous other breeders who have
not yet announced their intentions.
The board of directors of the Civic
and Commercial Association of Denver
voted to conduct Il 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
live stock men and save that industry
in Colorado. The board was asked to
raise n fund OF S2OO.OOO, hut the board
did not name any sum that should be
raised. 1t plans to raise all that II
can. and named Il committee that rep.
resents all the various business ele.
ments of Denver to conduct the cam.
pnlgn.
The Pueblo Typographical Union at
Pueblo. Colo, served notice on the
State Industrial Commission, OF Il pro
posed Increase of 30 cents daily, to be
demanded after Jan. 1. According to
members of the commission, this Is the
first instance In months that n notice
of Il wage increase has been served
on that body. This step was decided
upon by the union at n meeting Of Its
members at Pueblo. Pueblo newspapers
only will be affected.
Oil and gasoline consumption IN
Colorado reached 7,U:'9, 800 gallons dur
ing November, State Oil Inspector
Duce reported. The state tax upOr
this quantity, collected Mt the rate OF
cent per gallon, amounted to $IG,:'93
Half of this sum goes to the State
Highway Commission and the Othe
half Is distributed among the c0untie!
Oh Il basis Of state highway mileage
Jackrabbits, fleeing from pursuit, at
tain speed Of fifty miles an hour 70,
the first mile, Colorado Springs Motor
cycle Club officials reported at the con
cltision of crOss-cOuntry chase ii
/ which the rabbit was run down al. tn,
end Of five miles. In the secOnH. inil'
the rabbit lhnde forty-mile speed ant
In the last three miles slowed down t.
thirty-flye miles.an hour.
The, reports .6f. county assessor,
show That there were 5,487 firm trac
tors owned and operated by farmers ii
the state this spring, compared with
3,81s reported, for last year. and 2,25'
for 1919 The USE of tractors in tn,
general farming districts Of eastern
Colorado has been increasing very rap
idly In the past three years, and there
has been steady increase in Othel
districts. This year there were onl,
six counties in the state that reported
no farm tractors, all Of them beini
mining counties, In which very little
farming is being done. Weld county
holds first place, with 5O4 tractors re
ported, and Logan county ranks sec
Ond, with 431. There are now thirteeI
counties In the state repOrtingl imort
than 100 farm tractors each. Ter
counties which reported no farm trac
tors In 1919 have reported from Ont
to twenty each this year. Kit Carson
county, which reported twenty-si,
tractors in 1919, reports 228 this year
John f. Hayes, chief engineer of tn,
Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation Com