The Colorado statesman., 1921-12-03
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

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 1O2.55, compared with
IOl.09 last year and 100.6I acres In
1919. County assessors reported o.
245 farms being operated in the state
in 1921, compared with 49,11I last year
and 47,SS7 In 1919. The actual number
of farms In the stre is considerably
above the numbers here given, the CEN
sus having reported 59,934 farms ON
January /, 1920. The number, how
ever, includes n great many farms on
which no land Is being cultivated, but
which are being used only for pasture
purposes. 1t Is estimated that there
are not fewer than $4,000 farms In
the state on which land is actually be-
| ing cultivated each year. The in
crease In cultivated acreage per farm,
as 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 an average of 26,95 acres
Of winter wheat reported for each farm
in the state, compared with 20.2O
acres per farm reported for 1919.
Nearly all other crops show slight de-
creases 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 1889 per cent,
and alfalfa third, with 11.92 per cent.
| The following percentages of the culti-
waited area are devoted to other lead
| ing crops: Oats, 5.13; barley, AS;
rye, 2.37; sorghums, COG; sugar beets,
80. In many eastern Colorado coun-
ties more than 40 per cent of the cul-
tivated acreage is devoted to wheat,
the largest proportion being reported
for Phillips, which shows 1925 of its
cultivated area devoted to wneat 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 at
| Delta, Colo. He goes to the Uncom-
pahgre Forest with sixteen years ex-
| perience as Il forest officer, having
been appointed forest guard on the
Holy Cross National Forest in Novem-
ber 1905, and supervisor of the same
forest 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 airplane 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 an order restoring it to
the concerns possession. Counsel for
the Nebraska company gave notice
that an appeal would be taken.
Candidates for the position of post
master of Denver must have their ap-
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, SO years old, n
pioneer of upper Bear creek and wild
ow of the late Daniel Hicks, who made
the Hicks ranch famous to spOrtsmen
and tourists, is dead at Morrison.
Illness caused by overwork is
thought by friends and faculty asso-
ciates to have led Miss Eva Baum TO
take her life in the chemistry building
of the University of Colorado at BOul-
der. No notes or any other explana
ton for the suicide have been found.
Her father came from Salina, Kan.
The War Finance Corporation an
nounced fifty-six government loans,
amounting to $2,O73,00O for agricul-
tural and live stock purposes. Among
the loans were: Wyoming, $4,000;
Iowa, $4,000; Nebraska, $95,000
Oregon, $4,000; Colorado, $4,000;
Montana, $232 900; Kansas, $4,000.
A charred body, identified by the au-
thorities as 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 an alarm at the aged mans home at
Pueblo The cause of the fire, which
did $500 damage, is unknown.
The Farmers mill and grain elevator
at Craig caught fire and was a total