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U. S. Department of Agriculture WEATHKR BUREAU Voluntary Observers' Meteorological Record For the week ending May IC, 1907, and corresponding week of 1906. 1907 TEMPERATURE 1906 | s I | a I ol - I - s*: ° S 2 3 H g°s« S 3 Isa I 10 73 36 54.5 80 45 62.5 11 75 40 57.5 77 51 64 12 65 47 56 50 34 42 .74 13 58 30 44 50 33 41.5 166 14 57 30 43.5 67 40 53.5 15 64 34 49 75 42 58.5 16 77 39 58 77 42 59.5 HUMUAKV Mean Temp. 1907,51 5-7 1906, 53 Max. “ “ 77 80 Date May 16 May 10 Min. Temp. 30 33 Date May, 13 14 May 13 Total prec. in. 2.40 Total snowfall In. No. days clear 11 Partly cloudy 4 5 Cloudy 2 1 Dates of frost light Killing Prevailing wind s w s w J. M. Uniikrwood, Co-operative Observer. An English nobleman has been sentenced to a year in jail tor sub stituting imitation for real pearls in a deal with a pawnbroker. Some of our railroad magnates have been doing something like that for years, but up to date they have not been imprisoned.—Com moner. Mr. Cortelyou may as well come to the front with the facts about the contributions to the re publican campaign fund. The public is getting them one by one There was the $50,1.00 Mr. Perkins took from the insurance money, the $50,000 that Mr. Harriman gave, and the $200,000 that Mr Hariiman raised among his friends. That accounts for about five per cent, of the total slush fund.—Commoner The editor of this paper missed connections at Montrose last week when returning from Den ver, and bkinner of the Montrose Enterprise, irreverently makes fun of our attempt to outrun the train which got away from us. We shall always think it takes a mighty mean editor to say funny things about a toot race like the one we ran with the passenger train in the Monlrose yards. The only mistake we made was in going down the track. We c hould have started cross lots and we could have headed it off at Austin. A local holder of a certificate in a Denver building and loan company, who has paid into the campany $331 on monthly pay ments, and SID membership fee or a total of $341, concluded to withdraw' and so wrote the com pany for a statement of the amount he was entitled to on withdrawal The company wrote back that for the s3ll he had put in, he was entitled to $331 now, after paying in for five and a half years. Unless the company pays this certificate holder interest on this deposit, as agreed in the certificate, then the name of the robber company will be given in these columhs, so other certificate holders can get front under such a fraud. — Montrose Enterprise C. W. Rudolph, | Diseases of IIOItHER and Other Stock Attended to J PROMPTLY. f Headquarter* at Conine’s J Livery Barn, J Paonia, * Colo. i Pocahontas and Redmen Lodges Will Present THE GREAT COMEDY DRAMA “Among the Breakers” AND Unique Specialties Assisted By The Redmen Orchestra OF Six Pieces AND R. J. POTTER, of Grand Junction, Darkey Specialist Friday May 31. Reserved Seats SOc General Admission 35C The Tillage of Orchard Lands. Clean and thorough cultivation is the rule with the majority of the best fruit growers; and judg ing from the success that has re sulted, there would seem to be no reason for anp change in the sys tem. Cultivation accomplishes many things in that it improves the physical condition of the land by fining the soil and so producing * greater feeding sur face for the roots, by increasing the depth of the soil, by warming and drying the soil, and by re ducing extremes of temperature. It may also save moisture by in creasing the water holding capac ity and by checking evaporation. Tillage also promotes the chemi cal activities of the soil in many ways. It is therefore apparent that some system of orchard til lage is particularly useful in the dry regions. In the past it has been quite common to think that the lands of Colorado contained an almost inexhaustible supply of plant food, but we are now beginning to learn that this is not true. Consequently, some means should be taken to restore the laTgc amount of fertility that is used in producing our large crops of fruit. In any event, irrigation should not be expected to take the place of cultivation. In some of the heavier soils, particularly when rather large amounts of alkali are present, it becomes nearly impos sible to cultivate the land after one or two irrigations have been given. We believe, however, that we arc about to come to a point wheie we will be ready to change the entire system of cultivation and adopt one which will include the plowing under of green man ure at stated intervals. This does not mean the seeding down of the orchard, but the growing of some crop which may be plowed under every year, or every other year, which experiments must determine. The one thing which Colorado soils are deficient in is decaying vegetable matter. Most of the orchards have been planted upon soil upon which no other crops were grown. There was, of course, very little of this material in the soil when it was first broken up, and com partively little has since been added. The conditions of our climate are such that this impor tant soil constituent is soon ex hausted. Barnyard manure is, of course, extremely valuable in this connection. The amount that is produced in the fruit sections is insignificant when compared to the extent of the industry. Com mercial fertilizers will not be con sidered so long as freight rales remain so high. In any event this will not take the place of de caying vrgetable matter. It is lo be hoped that many fruit growers will begin experimenting with some form of green manure The possibilities ot combining some sort of stuck ftedmg with or ebarding should receive attention, both as a means of increasing the revenue and of keeping up the fertility ol the land The hoi lieu l ! Ural department of the Agricultural colli ge is dc sirous of entering into correspon dence with any who are thinking of 'aking ut» this work, and would also like lo secure the result, ol the season', woik along this line. W. I’ADDO'K n HECALAWAY 0 0 ROOMING HOUSE 0 0 Montrose. Colo., 0 Q Now under new luniiiißeineiit Q < DAY & DIXON. Props. a ! The room* are large and S Q airy. alwayH clean and Q comfortable. Inquire for g 0 THE CALAWAY 0 ; GETTHE BEST Recently Enlarged WITH 25.000 New Words New Gazetteer of the World with more than ari.OKI title*, lamed on the latent ceiiftuii return*. New Biographical Dictionary containing tlm name* of over IiMJUO noted |Mrr*ona, date of l.liih, death. 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