Pueblo chieftain., 1922-01-09
THIS WEEKS NOTES ON THE FARM

Foats in long distance haul came to
the front among several significant
items OF farm news during the week.
FIRST and most pleasing WAS the de-
parture Of another carload OF chickens
from Colorado on the way TO Calf
fornia. Shipment Of n car OF chick NJ
from Lamar to Los Angeles was noteo
on this page three or tour weSns 80,
and now we hear OF load going west
from Delta on the west slope. on a dif-
ferent railroad. Looks like carrying
Goals to Newcastle to be sending fowls
to California as they are supposed 10
be produced by thousands out there
but IL more ar> wanted and there IL
!, market in the west for anything thAt
Colorado has to sell It presents an en-
tirely new phase OF opportunity Tor
this region. Mention had already been
made OF the recent shipment of a car
OF hogs to California from the Mont
rose neighborhood. This is the more
remarkable because both the poultry
and the hogs passed thru Utah which
might have been expected to fill the
orders at nearer distance.
Tho other novelty In transportation
was the movement OF long train OF
cars loaded with butter from Austria
liza 1t came in n big fast freight
steamer to San Francisco and it left
n trail OF wrecked butter prices all the
way acrCss the country. Butter
dropped 10 cents pound at San Fran
cisco Immediately, and fell several
cents at Chicago before the butter
train reached there. 1t moved thru
Pueblo close on the trail OF the fast
million dollar silk train which flew
over the d. & II. G. shortly before. 1t
must have the effect OF producing new
ideas and new view points as to the
small .ize OF this world and the as
tonishinE fcats OF the steam engines
of sea and land.
But II ought to work both ways.
While It is weakening the local quo
tations on butter. ana likely to AFFECT
those on some other home products,
we shall look to those high strung To-
comotives to do favors foi US too. we
shall no longer regard ourselves IA
shut In by hopeless distance In re-
mote spot out OF reach of the world
markets. II the Australian butter can
hurry half around the world so easily
we shall demand similar swift haul for
a score OF good products of the five
great valleys OF southern Colorado.
The last week was sure an awaken
cr. The new year came to life with
bounce Yesterdays Sunday Chieftain
was a sad looking sample of distracting
effects of the scramble that set in the
moment the holiday diversions were
over. For three days copy" had
been pouring in for advertising in l0l
varieties, and tho page after page was
filled with typo the advertisers seemed
to want 1t all, till the regular news
could hardly get in "A word edgeways.
This unexpected run of advertising
covered all imaginable lines OF traf-
fic and business, including country and
farm interests and lands and build
ings. many OF the topics relating to
self evident preparations for an early
spring and a busy year.
II was cold week, too. with zero In
sight several times. a week that tried
mems stamina and tested the cndur-
ancc OF milkmen and newspaper boys.
1t also tested the vitality of any rosc-
bushes and vines and baby trees that
had not been wrapped. 1t may not be
too late even now. These tender twigs
usually hold out past the middle OF
winter and then II not aided by man. 3
care IL is the alternating OF successive
freezes and thaws in February and
March that kills them off. Many a
fine slender young tree worth dollar
pcrishcs for lack of two cents worth of
old sacking or paper.
The depressing effect OF foreign