Show S t WES FERN FARMS The Tho Te Pincy Piney and Shell Shel Creek Ditch Creek Ditch Company Com Corn pany of Wyoming Wyoming has been organized at Buffalo Bufalo to take an irrigating canal from the creeks named Tho The capital stock is i te paid up William Aki Akin Is i making some grand gand Improvements Im his newly purchased on farm near Timnath Larimer county One of the most important of ol these will wil bo be a hydraulic hy by ram rm pump by which water will wi be forced from a spring right into tho the house bouse Tho Cosmopolitan magazine for November November Novem Novem- ber will wi contain an article on alfalfa farmIng farm farm- Ing lug by the tho editor John Brisben Walker who was one of tho the first experimenters with wih this plant and whoso whose farm far Berkeley near Denver mado made for fOl him an Rn independent fortune fortuno M. M Duncan brought to town tow yesterday a a wagon load loud of the finest nest potatoes sen this season One Ona sack weighing 16 pounds contained exactly exactly 6 63 potatoes All Al are aro smooth smooth shaped shaped solid sold and white skinned Mr Duncan states tUat they were raised r without irrigation irrigation Aspen Aspe Times Time The Tho most experienced potato growers in inthe inthe the tho State Stat claim that it costs on onan an average of quarter of a a cent a pound to stor and hold potatoes eight months in reasonable quantities Of course it costs a little more snore to handle small smal patches than large ones but tho the figures named above apply to t anything over o five acres A. A A. A Yowell in tho the southeast part par of the county has a splendid eol crop of ot broom broomcorn broomcorn corn corD milo mile maize and black rice corn cor He Ho Hohas has ha bis his broom corn cut up and can get f 80 per pel ton for tho the seven tons he has ricke up by his bouse house ills His black rico rice corn will wi thresh about fifty bushels per acre and the maize thirty Ze Sirl J Herald The Tho farmers of the tha Cucharas valley valey have good cause for rejoicing this ear The Te grain crop is the best known in the valley valey for years while the hay crop is up to to If 1 not above the tho average for tor the same period The fruit crop has been remarkable both for its is quantity and quality The Te valley is i able to compete with any aay portion of the tho State au all aU that is i needed is a little more energy and practical application to bring about the desired results results-lalm ura Cactus actu To Xo show the profit In celery result of H. H L. L 1 Stewarts Stewart's Stewarts Stewart's efforts at Tecumseh Tecumseh Tecum- Tecum seh sell Mich is i cited Five years years ago he purchased a piece of swamp land c covered with willows and af after anor tor clearing the the same cams has Las cultivated on an average of twenty twenty- each Ills His receipts receipt seven acres year car gross jross for five years have havo been from which profit has been realized Colorado soil soi will wi grow better celery than is grown v In Michigan and by the means of irrigation irig tion ton at hand tb crop is and within control of the grower Field and Farm Furm Tho The last census bulletin issued is devoted to the nurseries of ot th the country This branch of horticulture has grown so rapidly rapid rapid- ly during the past few years that it is a avery avery very proper subject t for a census gation Tho number of nurseries in Ia the country was found to be valued at The capital invested was 52 32 men employed 43 57 women 2279 acres occupied The largest acreage is devoted to the propagation of apple trees The Tho grand total of plants and trees in the nurseries w was as S Greeley Gre-eley potatoes aro being shipped from that town at the tho rate rato of twenty to twenty twenty- five carloads a day and such ij the demand for cars and switching that the Union the Union Pacific road keeps a switch engine there for the especial use of the potato growers Twenty eight carloads df Ota 0 shipped ton a Month going an the and tu ers era secure at present forty cents a huT bus at tho ho warehouse At this price t the growers obtain at the tho rate of acre gross Although the shipments tire are large they represent a very small proportion proper proper- tion of the actual Greeley potato crop Hundreds of thousands of bushels have been stored in cellar and pit and will be he beheld held for advanced figures selling ceiling when the demand is more urgent than now The fruit trade of Denver is very large This city ranks next to Chicago as a market market mar mar- ket for fruit It is estimated that 50 cars of California deciduous fruits and cars of fruits from California Califor ala nia are sold in this market every year There are about cars 01 ox bananas sold here annually The apple crop comes chiefly from the states lying east cast of Colo Colorado Colorado rado and bo 60 per cent of Urn apples brought into the state come from Kansas and bits Mis The Colorado apple crop amounts to about barrels which Is about one one- fourth the amount consumed in Colorado This shows that there is great room for tor an increase in the production of apples in this state But it does not tell the tho whole story If there were enough apples grown here her 8 a market for barrels could be found in the South and in Ia Mexico DenVer Denver Re publican S |