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Show WESTERN FARMERS PL1MRESGE Grains, Sugar Beets, Vegetables Vege-tables and Forage Crops to Be Increased. Western farmers are planning on planting a big acreage of grains, sugar beets, vegetables and forage crops this spring, and western stockmen are looking look-ing forward to an unusually successful season, according to a letter received by local stockmen yesterday from Fred P". Johnson, manager of the Denver stock show and publisher of the Record-Stockman, Record-Stockman, the official publication of the Denver Union Stockyards. Mr. -Johnson says: While the winter just ending has been unusually severe, in most sections sec-tions of the R-oeky mountain territory, terri-tory, and the snowfall exceptionally exception-ally heavy, stockmen, a a rule, hail plenty 0f teed, and the. animals are coming through in very good shape. The snowfall has been unusually heavy in all sections this winter, and especially so in the mountain j districts. Thus is insured an abun- dant supply of irrigation water for : next summer's crops, while the ! soaking the ground has received in I all sections of the west means j plenty of early grass with the appearance ap-pearance of warm weather in the ! grazing districts aud plenty of moisture for conservation in the dry farming sections of the west. Western stockmen and farmers are coming more and more each year to realize the importance of diversified agricultural operations, and each year sees a further development devel-opment in the agricultural prosperity prosper-ity of the west, because of the trend toward livestock farming. Throughout all. sections of the west the idea is fast gaining ground that . agriculture without livestock as a basis is not realizing it highest high-est possibilities. Stock farming . must be the solution of the diffi-. diffi-. culties experienced in many sections, sec-tions, and especially in the plains country, or what is known as the dry land section, livestock farming has been proved to be the satisfactory satisfac-tory solution of the problems which have in past years seemed almost beyond solution. Stockmen also have come to real-. i7.e that their operations, to be thoroughly successful, must have agriculture as an important adjunct. The present winter has demonstrated demonstrat-ed most clearly the- necessity of providing pro-viding plenty of winter feed, and in no more successful way can this be done than by raising it. The. raisLng of stock and of crops, therefore, is so closely interwoven that stockmen are taking a vital interest in things agricultural and farmers are turning their attention to livestock aud making it the basis ba-sis of their operations. What, therefore, is more natural than a closer co-operation between the two industries? Livestock and agricultural production pro-duction are kindred industries and should be hooded together. |