278 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



At Carbondale, Colorado, on the other side of the Continen- 

 tal Divide, and not far from Leadville, conditions are quite dif- 

 ferent from those at Greeley. It is true that the industry here 

 is more limited and is of more recent development. In the case 

 of one large concern, at least, I do not believe that they will 

 ever have to go through the Greeley experience. It is owned 

 and personally managed by two business men, and I have yet to 

 see a case anywhere in the United States where men engaged 

 in a line of applied agriculture have made such a thorough 

 study of all .phases of their business. They have made use of 

 every scrap of scientific and practical information they can ob- 

 tain, so far as it was applicable to their conditions. These men 

 are farming to make money and not to spend it. When I state 

 that they .spent $60,000 for their water supply alone it will be 

 seen that they are engaged in no small undertaking. They have 

 between 2,000 and 3,000 acres of land and something over 1,000 

 of this is under cultivation. I was told that not an acre of this 

 is for sale. 



I never saw finer looking potatoes than theirs. By careful 

 selection they have largely eliminated disease, undesirable, 

 irregidar types of tubers and low yielding strains, so that their 

 average yields are someithing remarkable. In selection their 

 aim has not 'been to increase their yields by growing big tubers, 

 but ,to propagate only those strains which give a maximum num- 

 ber of tubers per hill of uniform table size. While they set 

 apart each season certain land planted with carefully selected 

 tubers in which to raise their own seed for tlie coming year 

 they are not in the seed business. Practically all their crop goes 

 as table istock. Being business men you would expect them to 

 look for a special market where good prices may be had and 

 they have. Most of their potatoes go to high class hotels and 

 city clubs. In fact, they supply one of the leading clubs in New 

 York City. 



It is interesting to note that in thi's part of Colorado we saw 

 the first oases of blackleg after leaving northern New York, al- 

 though it .is known to occur in most of the sections visited. 



Certain parts of Utah are having experiences similar to those 

 mentioned for the Greeley district of Colorado. We saw con- 

 siderable of the territory around Salt Lake City and from 

 there north through Ogden, Brigham and Logan to the Idaho 



