Show interesting experiments AT LOGAN agricultural COLLEGE fn I 1 the animal industry department of the agricultural college at logan under professor clas direction lias has completed completes some very incerta interesting ting experiments on the value of dir different terent feeds and the cos cost of producing dairy products especially basit has it been boon demonstrated that the net profit fr rum im dairy cows if pr opery b indeed hind led is very large butter fat can be produced on an au average of twelve months for eleven to twelve cents per pound end and under such auch conditions a good dairy cow if properly cared for will return two dollers for every one dollar of feed consumed A ton of good lucern hay bay fed to gjoci cows is worth from seven to nine dollars per ton an aero acre of good gooc land if handled in the right way for grazing cows will yield from forty to fifty dollars per acre there is however a vast difference in cows last year the best cow under ander experiment at the col lego lege barns gave a net not proul profit of while the I 1 dorest gave yield of 12 80 three years ago the experiment station fed a bunch of steers for days thu tho largest net profit per head bond for the days was from steers fed on beet pulp and lucern hay some of thorn them were fed heavily on grain others were fed much loss less grain it was found that the latter bunch gave f iho he greater not profit beet pulp by experiment has proved to bo be a good food for cattle and swine and has hag been successfully sf ully fed to horses tha manufacturers of the country continue to increase their share in both the imports and the exports of the united states in the ton months ending with october their importations of materials for use in manufacturing formed per cent of the imports import ot of the country against 45 8 per cone con in tho the corresponding period of last year and their exports export of manufactures formed 88 1 per cent of the total domestic exportations exhortations against ma per cent in the corresponding months of the p previous year manufacturers manufacture s materials how a greater increase in the imports than all the other uther classes of imports bombi combined 1 ned and manufactures show a greater gain in exports than all the other classes combined the increase in the importation of manufactures mater materials in the ten ton months ending with october last amounts to eighty one million dollars an increase of 21 per cent over tho the corresponding period of last year while tho the increase in all other imports amounts to b ia fifty four million dollars an increase of 1 12 0 par cent over tho the corresponding month of last year in I 1 exports the increase of manufactures is fifty eight millions or 14 per cent nent white the gain of oil 01 other exports Is but forty nine millions an increase of 7 per cent over the corresponding months of 1904 colorado has the reputation of turning out the finest mutton made the process of feeding lambs in colorado feed lots combined with ohp fine climate has the effect of producing a meat that is without the old sheep clavot which for years made mutton unpopular in this country says the kellu ride journal at the coming western live stock show in don er or the v eek of january it is expected that a fine show of lambs will be made including some choice specimens from the san lue luis valley where they are fed on peas A fine opportunity port unity will be given to compare the leafed meat that of the cornfeld awl anti the completion com petion will be between the san luis valley and the fort collins district there is considerable rivalry between the two district aa as to which produces the best mutton with the building of tho western pacific a part of the way to the pacific coast during the year your 1900 there will come an Iti increased creased demand for the coal of the carbon county mines folio follo jd id from time to time as the road progresses with additional dit ional orders until the output of the properties roper ties number hereabouts 0 has doubled and twice tho the number of 1 vion as aro at present employed will be worked to say nothing of tho new now cam camps s that will bo be opened ned then too Sunny sunnyside Sunn ysido side is s BOOB to be a p place a ca of five thousand people and a thousand or more coke ovens going at f full ull blast surely no section of the state has a brighter outlook than we the coal situation ie Is f improving mp roving and the yards are ca catching up with the In increase creasM supply of coal boing rushed into thia this market one me dealer aja the scam reau result it more ot of reports than any actual scarcity sear elfr and that while the yards yanis are it 1 Is true short there thero Is occasion for or worry and alt the coal coat desired caa be had by a few days in advance how ev 51 r thero there lr ir no immediate prospect prospector of any ny more cumberland coal coull ae as the northern smelters sm eltore and the railroads have base practically Aly corralee corr aled all of the deaerts now news aein 1 |