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Show AGRICULTURAL NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE. From Gunnison Gazette. The " Gunnison Creamery is now completed) and ready for business. Several test runs have been made thi. week which proved satisfactory in every respect. The plant has been leased for two years to J. I. Larson and Eph. Dastrup, both experienced creamery men and thctc is no doubt that they will receive the support of the milk producers in this neighborhood. neighbor-hood. A' big time will be had at the cream-cry cream-cry building next Tuesday, when the creamery will be formally opened. m From The Tre'mont Times. Seen Around the Valley. We spent a piairt of several days riding over the valley and talking notes of the crop prospects. We found most of the first crop of alfalfa cut and in the stack, some of the second! crop almost ready for cutting. Most of the first crop was put up in fair condition, though some few farmers were unfortunate in having it get wet by rain and it was thus damaged. In wmmimmmmmmmmmmmmMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm several fields wc saw the bailers at work getting it read, for market Most of the fall wheat crop was looking look-ing fine and promises a good yield. Some of the spring sown docs not look so well, but the most of the crop promises a very heavy yield. We noticed no-ticed some very large barley fields in the Elwood region, a.nd it all looks fine, but there arc some of barley fields west of Trcmonton that arc rather below the average. What the reason is wc did not find out. Theis is a fair acreage of potatoes planted, .but wc noticed many fields in which the stand was small," as if they did not omc up as 'hey should. But the oats! the most wonderful crop in the whole Valley. There arc thousands of acres that will yield from eighty tj a hundred' bushels an acre, and hundreds hun-dreds of acres that will make from one hundred to one hundred mjid twenty twen-ty bushels an acre. G. M. Winzclcr and Matthew Baer, just west of Trcmonton, Trc-monton, together have some five or six hundred acres that will yield a crop that will well repay them for their labor and a good bonus besides John Somirrer has a large acreage of oats besides other crops, but he has so many other propositions on hand most of the time that they have not received the attention necessary to bring them up to their .best yield, although al-though it looks as if he might have from eighty to a hundred bushels an acre on much of his land. On the farm of Louis H. Gctz, near Point Lookout, we noticed the most apples in this part of the Valley. From present pres-ent appeairances he will have a pretty .fair crop. Wln'le everywhere, else in this vicinity the frost destroyed all i i.!. the apples, Mr. Gctz va? favored by inn having any frost of consequence M and now has the promise of a full jH crop, which will undoubtedly sell foi H . good price this fall. There arc H some fine crops of beets growing in M spite of the dry spring weather that H seemed to - prevent their .coming up. H Especially is this true of the farms 01 jH the cast of the Malad. K. H. Fnidcil, '-H J. L Haws and others have a large H acreage that look very very fine atrl H promises a bountiful yield. Sor.ic H three miles west of town Mir. J. M. H Jensen, Jr., has planted an nipple or- H chard of some nine or ten thousand H tree;, nnd between the rows he has H planted beets. He had a big gang of H men thinning them last week, but H they appear very small compared with H tlvosc on the cast side of the Malad H Wc arc not enough of a prophet t H make any estimate of what the crop H may be. MY. Jensen lias been making H some very extensive improvements on H 'his ranch this summer. He has had H his house and other buildings repaired H and painted and done much to make H his place look more homelike. He M is to: very progressive citizen, and M whether the work he is doing will M ever pay him or not, his example will M have a good effect in causing other M to make their places more tidy and M more like farmers' homes' ought 0 M I |