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Show :S0ME FACTS ON i AGRICULTURE MILFORDVALLEY Milford is in the center of a vast area of undeveloped agricultural land and is destined to be a shipping point for an ever-increasing terr.-tory. terr.-tory. The land in this valley will grow ! numbers of crops with profit to the .farmer; but pnong the crops which ! have been tried out sufficiently to prove their profit, are alfalfa, alfal-j alfal-j fa seed, potatoes, onions, beets, but-I but-I ter. wheat, oats, corn and fruit, j Thousands of tons of -hay can be i raised and many acres of corn will be used to fill silos, thus making this an ideal dairy country, and no class of farmers in the country are as prosperous, year after year, as the dairy farmer. Milford is situated in the center jOf the largest area of sub-irrigated lands in the country land especially especial-ly adapted to the production of a jfine grade of alfalfa. One man this ivear produced. 4.ri0 sacks of seed from that kind cf land. Many others have demonstrated the seed proposition. It is estimated that this year's crop will have a money value, even at the low price of seed, of $6,000. Onions and potatoes grow and produce abundant crops here and the nrice is good. Rome samples of onions on-ions on d;sii!ay in the window of the Milford Realty Companv's office, from he farm of F. W. Gospill, are he equal of any grown anywhere in the world. -Potatoes this year have yielded from 250 to 350 bushels per acre, and in one instance, a single acre produced GOO bushels. All grains grow successfully here ensilage corn produces immense quantities of feed. Deisner i- Tomsick have a poultry-farm poultry-farm south of town, which is a financial finan-cial success. I: is their intention to increase it to r-.my times its present size. They now have 1000 -hens. There are thousands of acres of undeveloped land in this valley, not one half of one per cent being farmed. farm-ed. Land pri-pps are low and terms are easy. A large portion of the land is under-laid with an abundance of water for irrigation in depths very-ir.g very-ir.g from ten to sixty feet. Power for pumping is furnished at a reasonable rate by the Telluride Power company. com-pany. The things most needed here in Milford are farmers and not broken down politicians and bookkeepers; book-keepers; farmers and not agriculturalists; agricul-turalists; farmers who farm. That is the need cf the agricultural lands in this country; and in no place w.H persistent intelligent labor bring a better return. |