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Show Colorado has 3,000,000 acres under artificial irrigation. The farm products exceed $12,000,000 a year. There are 1,500', 000 cattle, 2,000,000 sheep. The coalfields cover 40,000 square miles. The supplies of marble, granite and other building stone are inexhaustible. In testing the lifting power of growing grow-ing plants and vegetables an experiment experi-ment made under the auspices of the United States department of agriculture it was found that common pumpkins J could lift a weight of 2 tons. Philadelphia has some long streets j Second street, 15 miles; Germantown and Ridge avenue, 10 miles; Broad Btreet, 9 miles; Frankford avenue, 8 miles; Fifth street, miles; -Market j street, 5 miles. A man's time, when well husbanded, is like a cultivated field of which a few acres produce more of what is useful to life than extensive provinces, even of the richest soil, when overrun with i weeds. . I |