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The Chieftain’s Monday Morning Farm Page WESTERN LIFE REQUIRES PLUCK IN COUNTRY OR IN TOWN Bright Example to Both Has Been Set By the Mer chants of Pueblo —Cheerful Grit Is Also Shown By the Farmers General praise has boon awarded to the biisiiK ss community of Pueblo for the bruvr- spirit of fortitude and en terprise it ban shown in rapid recovery from the grout June flood. But Htat was an unavoidable case. It w is absolutely necessary to dig out of the mud. rebuild and reopen. It l ..I to he done. V. i in this present month of Decem ber the merchants have proved them- S k. . endowed with an even higher [.•* ole of courage. With deliberate Intent, facing most S’ rio;is risk, busing Judgment and ac tion on their sanguine faith in the buy ing power of .Pueblo and the probable exercise of It at Christmas time, they *■ent out orders for immense quantities of costly goods. They knew the town, or knew what it would be bv December, better than did. we the anxious and skeptical hry mMl It would he a cold day before we. ih. aforesaid piker laymen, right in sight of smokiest* stacks and .'.-foot pile* of mud in the streets, would give out orders for two hundred-dollar suites of furniture, and hundred dollar gown* and rugs and fur.;, and enorm ous quantities of tile finest toys, and tons of ennd> and the greatest Mitautitiefl of clothing and of silks ever brought to Pueblo. NOW LOOK «»l*T OF TOWN Ky now let us ask about the country* tre they i ra u iangu!ne. a > hopeful as thc>e Pueblo merchants? not exact 1> a paralh I case Thet m more freedom and independ *r f<’,r th. farmer In some ways yet he i- more hopelessly bound down In others He can direct and plan, plow ;i: .i sow wit hoi: the keen calculation which the merchant must devote to his io. ;i! constituency. in fact the whole SANTA DISCOVERS THE POOR FARM (Kgnaro) « 1 whs at the county home (sometimes called the poor farm) when Santa. Claus came there Saturday afternoon it mas his first official visit, »o toe old timers told me. There have been Christinas dinner* an 1 Christmas decorations and some. Christmas extras In such times before, j but there hnd never been a real t.'hrlst-| nia> tree and a Santa Claus on the ( place before. of all the Christmas doings i have • witnessed down in New Kngland, in the middle west or the south, this one at til*- pueblo count/ home yesterday j •'took the huckleberries.” yes. and the , cranberries too. Sixty-six residents of the home were; beneficiaries at the hands of on ideal Fa it.i Claus, lie looked just like hl« | he*i picture, and he was the typical Jovous. laughing shouting. Jolly old Kris Krlnglc that we read nbout in j our nursery hooka. Thn laughing and expectant people who gathered around the monster I Christinas tree, all beautifully covered with electric lights, were TO. SO. 90 and almost 100 years young boys and girls who had for the most part witnessed m<. such scene since the days of pio neer schools. Tile tree was set at the intersection of the two great hallways in the mag nificent three-story main building: around this lmd been placed just enough chairs for all the residents who were physically able to leave their rooms, while the doors of the hospital ward for old ladies were swung wide that they might see and hear and he ~i-ilv waited upon by the old king of th. holiday season and the lady nurses, matron and superintendent, who acted as hla assistants. There were presents for every r*sf d of the Home, and nit • ora gbfl and apples and a sprig of berry-laden holly ai onipnnied each present. • Hello. John: how do you do. i have brought yon n present too. I visited vi»u often before when you wcj-e the crack shortstop. 1 wish you n merry PI stmaa and ■ happy lit« year.” With cheery expressions of aentlmonfc «u. li as this Santa Claus greeted each of the young-old people as bo handed him or her the present bearing the name. “Same to you SAnta Claus,** was the response In many Instances, while others looked their appreciation more ■»xpensive than words, as t> urs tri« klod low n wrinkled cheeks All this crew out of a suggestion of Mrs Burkett, wife of superintendent. Dixon I’.urket l The idea was present . d to the count v commissioners, then H leaked Into the ear of Charles W. T.r. . an.l ill almo-t I s than 110 time the Ma-oiilr Belief association was f charge "f a plan for carrying out th.- ide i ; thus was the tree and its decorations, also the many of the pres ents provided The«e wore augmented hv tnanv presents f ,, om the ladles of the Ascension church, and they also bought and presented to the home a Vlctroln with 7* records. All of the county commissioners were, ALLEGED CATTLE THIEF' CAUGHT NEAR FOWLER Special to tin- t hieftain. Fowler. «*olo. I>< - . •'... I >e|,.ni y Sli-w Iff \ Dotson a -rested an alleged catt'.' rustler today and lock him to Pueblo where :,n was placed In Dio conntv Jail. He gave hi* pomn ii« c*rl . on and resided t miles west ~r here, • ;iv the authorities. His arrest eonu'S jifter s.arral days ..f watching and the off!’. ra believe tin y have the ring lead er ef a hand ol rustlers. When cap tured. Carbon liad a load of cuttle hide-. country Is the farmer's constituency. But In the matter of prices and walues the farmer is completely lied up. While the merchant loses from rapid caprice in styles and fashions, the farmer loses from swift changes in markets. It is here in the west that the in dustry of agriculture is more certain ly a series of adventures: where prices change most quickly and with least warning: where remoteness from east ern markets keeps the producer help less in his sales. Right now in midwinter the test comes. Right now the farmer is faying < his plans. His vision maps the brown fields into the respective jobs they are . so soon to undertake. It is not *so much a question of quantity of pro- | duetion as the vnriety and species of ; their botanical ta«k. Human brain is j called upon to figure out a probable j market for these articles, not a few . weeks ahead at Christmas time, as the merchant had to do. hut nine months in the future at September harvest. How can we possibly make any sort | of guess on the demand, the prices, the j conditions three quarter* of a year In 1 the dim and mythical 1922? But were past years any better? j Were they not even more deceptive. I more treacherous, more disappointing? I Therefore we may analyze th" past | experiences of war and of peace time, and close the debate with the assertion I that the courage of the mercantile | rommunttv of Pueblo In the past mem- I ora hie half year i* fully matched by that of the farm managers of southern Colorado every season. Tt has been a critical year which saw Pueblo come hack: but our in the fields and orch- ; arils ami gardens and stock yards ami poultry pens every year presents a; fascinating round of adventures. Such'; Is life in the far west. 'sit G«^”j . there and most of them brought their 1 wives with them. Chairman Rees of the (county board, also superintendent of the poor, called the assemblage to or der and made a pleasing and cheering • address: he introduced the Rev. Dag- In ell who offered up a soulful prayer • appropriate to the occasion. Then the 1 | Vlctroln played the "Holy City in solo. , Just as the last strains of music died (away the sleigh bells of Santa Claus ' I were heard approaching, and in bound ed the gleeful old holiday saint In all .-.is glory. Santa I’lau* no more surprised the residents of the county home, than did j the county home surprise sonic of-ft* visitors. I met there men and ivoifWl' of refinement and education who had '; stood high in social, political and husf , liens circles of this and other com - imunitles. Some 1 knew have upper ten family connections here and elsewhere; some 1 knew as pioneers who largely j made possible the splendid city and j community in w hich the balance of us ( nre running at large. I I trailed Santa Hiatts to his iuni ' dressing room, and found hla other name to be William Bnrber. FEEDING PLANTS IS INTERESTING PART OF HOT HOUSEWORK Feeding plants is an interesting part of th« work of vonductlng a su<~- . css fill greenhouse business. Tho other day wo happened into Johnson's gr. • nhouso and saw Steve feeding the plants. Sounds stranfr. . Wo heard a', out feeding the chicken*. » bogs and c«.w«:. but not often of feed ing plants. Blit there lu> was. Steve has a mag nificent lot of carnations which were started a year ago from cuttings ami have been worked with a whole year. Now they are tall and thrifty and coming Into magnificent blooms. But to grow carnations requires about three artificial feedings In the < ourse of their life. What ar*» they fed? Steve was feeding them fine bone men I Just the nuno as is fed chickens. It is applied to the surface of the noil among the plants and stirred in. ! It sure makes them grow strong and fine. lit fact, all plants are fed Foliage plants have to he fed but a different kind of food. They are given nitrate of soda, blood meal and various forms of nitrogen. ft Is sure some game to learn just when to feed and what to feed. If tho plants grow along all right they , dont need any food. However, if they • stop growing they aro fed. If the e»r- I natlonc stems appear weak so that they bend over, they nre fed lime. I Mr. Johnson 1* now lni*i> making , | carnation cutting?* for next year's crop. I - -Montrose I*n sH. ' What is life, anyway " What's it for? ; What |?i the object? What good is !' If 11 be filled up '•■•m. milking t time at 4 a. in. to hanging tip tin* dish • pan at 9 p. m ? Boor system of book keeping that smns up tin* • uo'es.* of life from the achievement ..f buying another forty'' t" enlarge th* farm. Better to view Hi- big end of life a** (he “good turn'' performed for some impressionable young mind n» Christ - n 1 - lit . * whi > ■' e dn\ • up, to tho get. cf ibe hesvenly corral .St Peter will look Into the wagon bed and "ill find there only Mb* few vni.iß rat Mini; grains of onseliish rorg*nln :ll> dat'd December 25. A THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN fOMPLETE in every detail la this seven room semi-bunga low. Though there are two "bed rooms on the second £ wtu luviuj vu l uq o^vuuu door, the first story is complete in itself and unless one’s family is too large it could with comfort be used as the living part of the [ house and the two rooms In the second story could be utilized for storage purposes. Or, if one of the members of the household is an artist and desires a studio, what more Ideal studio rooms could be found than the two in the upper story of this house? On the first floor there are two bed rooms, a glazed front porch, a good sized living room with a beautiful bay window and open fireplace, a sun parlor, dining room, pantry, kitchen and reay porch. The floor plan is attract ively and practically arranged and the housewife will find keeping house here reduced to the mini mum so far as the actual labor and work are concerned. There in a basement under the main part which will be nice to store things in and which has a foundation wall oft concreta. OTERO’S SOIL IS SPOILING IN QUALITY A .serious proposition confronts large areas of the best Irrigated lands down th* river according to investi gations made by Dr. Sackett and Pro frseof K*zar who have been analyzing | fans* dirt with alarming results. At a meeting hold a few days ago at Rocky Ford they mad* public critical conditions that have developed In that vicinity and also In the Grand June- • tion region. i Some years ago it. is stated Dr. He.ulden. state chemist was called to ,tlic San Luis Valley to investigate j sonic soil troubles and after analyzing some of the .soli he found It contained a very high percent of nitrogen. he found the same condition at Grand Junction and Montrose. Dr. Sackett be- ; Iran working on this problem and he! found th* nitrates were being formed, by a species of soil organisms that; under favorable conditions took nitro-• sen in th* ni r ami fixed it iti th* soil I : in th* form of nitrates. Condition I j favoring this was irrigation, clean and frequent cultivation, and growing, I crops that required very little nitro-1 ! gen. Also the lack of orgunic matter jln th* soil increased the nitrates. In •th* Hand Junction district where fruit ; was th* chief crop th* nitrates be came ?o bad that many orchards had to h* grubbed out. Such condition is fa®t approaching our Mnnznnola dis trict. Special crop farming such as cucumbers and cantaloupes and con tinuous growing of bents on the same ground arc all factors that cause an , c.\e«ss|vn Increase in nitrates. it is hard for people to get this idea of to., much nitrates in the soil and that they must be supplied with com- 1 mcrrlul fertilizer. Dr. Sackett has been working on ' this now for years and he has proved to his own satisfaction that this is the cause of our soli troubles and not only have th.* laboratory tests proven this but actual field te*rs on the west ern slop*. i n the Fort Collins district ! and also in the Arkansas Valley lmv# . indicated that such Is the situation. Now what is the remedy? Thest men suggest methods by which it can eventually l>c overcome. l»ut we must j not expect sudden results. As it has taken a good many years to got us into . this condition it will take years to’ get out of |t. First, we must change methods of farming from a special crop to a di- ; versified system. Next wc must ro tate beets and cantaloupes with such 1 crops as corn and grain that will use. large amounts of nitrogen. We must get more livestock nnd put more barnyard niatiure on the soil In order to get more organic matter into it. We must supplement this with plowing under green crops. Above all we must us* joss wnter in irrigating, as we nr* being hi ore con vinced every year that overirrigatlofi ! will ruin this country. An effort will be mad'* thru th* Farm Bureau to arrange a number of demnnstrjßß.|i.. to pr. \ • out these theories In actual field tests. This will be supplemented with laboratory test-* made tit the Rock' Ford and Junta high schools by the voca tional agi c ultural departments nnd the V borutorles at Fori Collins. Various organizations are being formed at points in iqlpcr valleys to tuk* . are of the large amount of head lettuce It I** expected to prodr e Hie e.iminr ?eas..n \ lettuc* c!tih was ' •*Mii- , d at I.a Jnra ;i! a meeting on \ Thursday A MODERN SEMI-BUNGALOW DESIGNED BY S. SEDGWICK The llying room, sun parlor nnd dining room nre finished in “Mis sioned Oak” nnd nil other rooms in white enamel. The chimney in front is for the fireplace in the Hy ing room and flue for the furnace, while the back chimney is for kitchen range. Cement stucco is used to finish the exterior with English “half- CAREFUL SEED SELECTION GIVES FARMER SWEEPS TAKES ON CORN .Springfield, 111., Dec. :3.—(By The A»- soclatcd press.)—Rich soil of Sanga mon county, which in Indian dialect means “Land of Plenty,” and long years of careful seed selection, produc ed the corn of this year, which brought to Illinois the 1921 grand champion sweepstakes prize of Amer , ica. j Only a country store, a grain ele vator. three farm houses and a mud dy road mark the railroad station of Maxwell, 23 miles southwest of i Springfield, where the ten ears of yel low corn were raised which won. the grand championship. From the decrepit railroad station westward, stretches the land of J. W. Workman, producer of this champion grain, the son and grandson of corn growers. Ills corn was awarded the championship in Chicago, at the In | ternatlonal Grain and Hay show. I Years of careful seed selection, his excellent land, the eolation of corn ■ with alfalfa or clover pasture, are the I three outstanding elements In hla suc , cess. Farmers about Workman's home, ■sav the honor came of bard work, and bis wife adds—-"enthusiasm that kept •him out of bed at night while all the ' re**t of us slept,” poring our his grains with the., same rapture that holds n miser. "I'm a crank,” Mr. Workman said. “You can't raise prize corn for 25 years and not boa *rank.” Yet for all his corn growing and prize "Inning be has never seen a per fect ear of corn. "Never," he said, "have T seen * perfect ear. Not one of the ten rnr« f sent to Chicago was perfect. All f could do was take the very best l had nnd hope they would stand up beside the others. In every car l could see imperfection.” Of bis -43') acres in the Maxwell farm, only 53 were In corn this year. They yielded 75 bushels an acre, all yellow dent. That was picked over at first by Mr. Workman nnd Ills son, Rome Workman, who. bis mother says, "is almost as bad as his pa about corn." That yield offered several bushels of “show corn.** Then by the midnight oil. Mr. Workman with bis keen eye for Imperfections eliminated TONS OF FINE POTATOES IN GREAT NEW CELLAR - I Montrose Press states: Dougins Lytle has completed one or tho best spud cellars at Ids dry land ranch above Rostwick park. He studied plans of many ami then improved up on them himself in regard to ventila tion. The c>lhir is 120 by 40 feet with 12 f<mt Ailing and plenty of ventila tion. The spuds are. stored in sacks on a false bottom of sluts and are cx posed all around to trie air ami have fre#» ventilation. ll* has ctored 3.Out, sack* "f the I est snod stock in the country. People's Kussets. grown with out the application of a drop «>f water, artificially. They ar«- real dry land stuff at 7.500 feet. There are 50f) sacks «*f certified stuff for sale, grown at the rate of 100 saeks to the acre. Ills whole yield w.v Kit Hacks to the acre ! of fine seed stuff. Just the right size, smooth, free from disease ami the best that can be grown anywnoie. Mr. Lytle's dry farm Is on the nicsn above lti*?*t"lck park. To u<-: there *»ne takes the Strand road and a k* for directions after he g- ts on the Park. timbers’* in the gablet. This makes an exceedingly attractive appearance, particularly with the outside trimmings stained brown with green creosoted shingles on the root. The estimated cost of building this house Is between $6,500 and $7,500, thia being ex clusive of the plumbing and hast ing. - all but 50 cars, which were sent to the . International show. In the regional contest with Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, 5 Virginia. Maryland, Delaware and - Southern parts of Illinois, Indlnna and i won first for yellow corn; . then took the highest regional prize 1 j ~ia.. ol corn from the holder - <>f th-* best whit* corn, which was I from Missouri. Then he entered the .■sweepstakes. His best ten ears won. 1 ”1 have seen him down on nil four*,” * one neighbor said, “picking his seed, f grain by grnln, culling out that which f lie felt fell below his standard. He : would spread a big tarpaulin, pour the ' I grain upon it, and then get down « J with It." I "Corn should not be planted for more i iljhii five years in succession in the . sain* land." Mr. Workman said. His i custom is to raise corn in a parcel of i , land four or five years, nnd then to ? plant it in alfalfa and clover nnd make i I' it pasture land for ten or twelve years, renewing the land. "Rest corn never comes the first year." Mr. Workman declared. “Horn i that won the championship came from - ground that was in its second year of corn." IN TRUE CO OPERATION THE FARMER HAS HOPE FOR BETTER CONDITIONS • ; l I t | How long do >ou as a farmer want ’ to sell your crop at a loss? Mow long j do you want to bo content with less 1 I than tho city man for the rxime amount .| of effort? Ilow long do you as* a I i farmer want to work sixteen hours a t! day to get remuneration equal I*> that . of nn office boy? No doubt you have .‘realized that something is wrong with r ' the business of agriculture, hut did l you know that In the past forty years • <'NLY#TV<» Cllol’S IJAVK SOLD above: tub fust of prolmv -1 TION? During these forty years th* farmers have made many efforts to I throw off the yoke; to tlx up the , economic maelutrom so that an nde- I qtiate return could be realized upon farm products. But .not much lias | been accomplished. Farmers in vnri- I ous organizations have* fought those in I other organizations. In effect they were quarreling about the method; with about the same amount of sense las two men who quarrolcd about •the way to go to Denver. The farmer has ’ bec-u quoted, ill fact lu K* put down ill Kncyelopvdlns. as an INDIVIDFAL -1 IST. He refuses to together with Ills neighbor; he seeks to gain Justice by working alone. IT FA N'T BM 1 | DONE ANY .Molll'.. Fo-opcratlon is | the only thing the farmer has left. 1 | And by that is meant true co-opera- ! j lion; tiie golden rule. - Montrow* Press. HENS MUST PRODUCE 88 EGGS EACH TO PAY FOR THEIR KEEP Th«* Canon city Record: Karh «-gg cost a certain farmer in I Fremont eounlv one ami nlnety-nlnn hundredths cents, or twenty-threo and eight-tenths ••eni*< a down during the pant year. On I bin fame farm it , lb** farmer $1.2*1 to feed one Idl'd. 47 j cents labor to rare for a hen. 27 rent* housing coat, 17 rents capital coat, and | MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1921.-1 THIS WEEK’S NOTES ON THE FARM The reader of yeeterdny's paper 1 astonished at the bewildering number of Christmas parties and programs. He had not supposed there were people enough in Pueblo to "pull off” ho many | indoor picnics of so many different i kinds. Yet the country dwellers were doing their share in social and bene volent exchanges. To many of mem the round of farm life is so crowded i with voluminous tasks that they have no time, or think they have not, for •any of it to be spared for recreation or for hilarity or oven for religion. Christmas comes exactly on the lino between season*, when past Ih past and future is far and never the two shall meet. Therefore there arc hun dreds of busy rural toilers who in dulge in a few hours of relaxation at this period, the only red letter in the year. At all other times they at tend and give no tea parties, they are doing chores at church time on Sunday, they are too tired and sleepy when neighbors are hitching up to drive over to tho barbecue; they have not time to travel ten mile« to vote at the No vember election. But in December they try to make up for some of this drudgery by a little indulgence In tlie Joys of Christmas. There is a little more encourage ment In the outlook- than there was before Christmas, though it requires .a sagacious philosopher to be able to see It. The grains ha\ e made several good motions in Chicago lately though they were brief and did not hold up long. Poultry was plentiful for the holiday trade and though prices weak ened slightly they were very fair for the producer*, and they get big figures for eggs. Meats are still very cheap but there 1« going on all the time an enormous reduction In the quantity, and stock farms are not being kept up. There must come a time when a sudden scarcity will be realized and prices will Jump. Those who are pre pared for that time will make easy money. On* more very wet snow m»<T* Friday an unlucky day. if we consider moisture to be bad luck in dry Colo rado. It was those sanguine ones, who look for good things in tho fu ture, like the merchants of Pueblo, that planted plenty of wheat in the fall, and now that wheat is getting the benefit. The totfil amount of pre cipitation for the year has been around 21 inches, which almost puts us In reach of some of the soggy old slates back east. Yet even now the sta tisticians of Denver in sending out Colorado reports allege that there has been severe deficiency. The north east corner of the state had a dry sum mer and therefore they make out that Colorado was backward. Did the same thing in 1920, while the south half and the west half of the state were wet ter than ever before known. Getting comfortable salaries for the special work of finding out all about Colo rado. they have now for three con secutive years complained of a lack of moisture, because that was the condition in the north half. They do not know anything nbout the south half, and apparently do not want to know. On the Ist of January pedan- ! tic summaries will bo uubllshed. not ! at all attractive to the farming in dustry, on the ground of scant mois ture, in the wettest year ever known. Where nil the turkeys came from, which blossomed out In goodly supply I for Thanksgiving and then for Christ-I mas, ta sure a mystery. Wo must give the chredit to Towscr and Shop. 1 Wc may figure it out in this way: I In past yours the coyotes had every thing their own way, out on the; vacant leagues of plains and foothills. Their number has not perceptibly do- j creased but their spirits have. Ho many settlers have invaded the outer townships that dog can call to dog and hear nn encouraging answer from the next farm. Midnight activities of l these faithful farm guards lias evident ly given the prowlers a cautious turn I anti they keep back and give the j poultry some chance for life, so now we are pleasantly surprised to see a big wagonbed with a cover of netting over it moving in from the Aplshnpa and another from Rattlesnake and each long box crowded " ith indignant tur keys rod In tho face with offended dig nity. By an order Issued dtiring the " eek , by the Interstate Commerce commis sion alfalfa meal, cane seed and cot tonseed cake and dried beet pulp must ;«11 be classified to take the same rail- • road rates as corn nnd coarse grain , in western trunk line territory. The I ruling operates to establish ji 19 per cent lower freight charge on the cattle foods named than tne existing rates on wheat. December 15 day up the river. On that day numerous farm ers from all over Fremont county ns- . sembled at Canon and Florence, whence they were taken In auto cars . by the tired and blistered citizens to do a good day’s stunt with shovel and pick In Phantom canon. They made the dirt fly nnd there was no soldoring. Colorado Agricultural college at Fort Collins had a serious loss by fire one day In the week. The Chemical build ing was destroyed with n loss of $20,000 and with It SB,OOO tAorth of chemicals. Several more carloads of poultry Imve been taken from Lamar on the way west. Whether they go to Ari zona •or to Southern California is not stated hut they seem to give proof of an opening and enlarging market 7 cents for equipment or totjil cost of $2.51 to take rare of each bird. The birds produced an average of 172 eggs encl. In a year which made an Income of $5.17 per hen. or a profit of $2.K3 per bird, or 19 cents per ! dozen egg*. Kach hen liad to produce j ''S eggs to pay for her keep during I the year. [ This farmer's flock was in tlm Fre ni ount County cgg-laylng content which Just cloved. This farmer, along with six others, in co-nporatloii with the County Agent and tho County Farm Bureau, kept records for th* year. Tim farm has a. flock of 70 birds which Is near the average sized farm flock in Hie state, but is above th* average in production. Farmers can bring their poultry up to this stan dard by culling out the boarders, keeping simple records. nn«l using or dinal" .are in management along I with the feed furnished by the farm. PAGE THREE out there for Colorado products. There will bo at ill more of this when the now railroad comes up from Gallup to Farmington. 1 Some crops grow best in the summer, some in the winter. The newspapers have Just been harvesting the biggest crop of ads this year. Officials of the Mountain State Beet Growers’ association were reelected at the annual meeting in Denver. They arc Fred Cummings, Fort Collins, president: 11. C. Boggs, Fort Morgan, vice-president, and George Huston of i Greeley, secretary. In a continuously moist winter like this, it would be possible to germinate thousands of walnut trees. They could he grown In mile-long rows along the ditches and fences and banks, simply by burying walnuts a left inches deep. Cold still winter nights help out with mountain agriculture, tho the thoughtless plainsman would never think of it. Pando is a place where great quantities of natural ico are put up for summer use, and there are numerous oilier places where thous ands of tons of ice could be obtained if people would make little lakes. Ice in large amounts is used for cooling fruits and head lettuce in refrigera tor cars. Much ice could be frozen and packed here in this vicinity, in most winters, tho not thus far this winter. It would be a paying crop. A strong local farm bureau was or ganized at Debcque this month. Wil liam Briggs Is president. An advertisement, has been running in Canon City Record for weeks offer ing Geniton apples fur sale, at a mod erate and liberal price. It is evident that the Genitons came thru when all the other Canon trees were frozon up last April. Tills bears out with strong proof the assertion often made on this farm page, that the Geniton is the best apple tre-* for this perilous re gion, because it Is the last to blossom. The Geniton. like the cottonwood, waits till the first of May before ven turing forth with buds and blossom*. The quality of the fruit is not first class but It*ls good and salable, an excellent keeper, and the tree is long lived and hardy, and is willing to grow q/i bottom lands where most tree* strivel up as soon as they get their feet wet. Not a single Santa Claus got his cotton overcoat burned off of his back in Pueblo county school bouses so far as learned. Ons argument for planting more evergreens Is tin* fact that the moun tains nnd foothills are surely being denuded by the enormous cutting of Christmas trees which is being done ovegj' year. BOULDER WINTER FAIR WITH CORN AT THE FRONT From Longmont Call: The ninth annual meeting of tho Boulder county farm bureau and the [sixth annual corn show was held to j day at the W. O. W. hall with a large iHgrcgntlon of, farmers, club members as well as many of lxmginont’a towns people present. Many from neighbor ing tewns brought exhibits and the j display of corn was excellent. On* * hundred and three entries were made and grain was of a high quality. . Small grains were entered for the first time this year. Of the entrants a | large number were from members of the Boys’ and Giris’ clubs. I The raising of corn, practically un j known In Bouhler county a few years 'ago. has been so successful that othe.* sections of the Fnlted States are now looking to tills county‘for high grade send corn. A glimpse at the displays j of corn at tin* annual Boulder county corn show held nt the Longmont W. O. W. hall today, shows the quality lof '.he product of Boulder countJT | farms that won in competition over sll other sections of the nation at the | International show held In Chicago recently. BIG TRACTS IN ALBERTA COME UNDER IRRIGATION j Tremendous irrigation projects are j planned in Alberta ns the result of the provincial government barking the $5,400,000 bonds of the Lethbridge northern district, and It is estimated | that the totiil amount of outlay In ■ volved iu all the proposed undertak ings will amount to between fSO.OOC.- 000 and $60,000,000, This expendi ture dors not include the Canadian Pacific railway’s gigantic enterprise which already is serving hundreds of thousands of acres. The demand for Irrigated land is greater than the supply at the present time, so Impres sive have been the returns from land furnished with water artificially in Alberta. UEAD COLDS I I Melt in apoon; inhale Taper, •pply freely up nutrib. visas Oeer 17 Million Jan LM Kenfe *— t'uliqiiers TOP with her l Mtlil Tile l reason? Mnj- y • BLOOD \/