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farms, from all states where they are establishd, by 

 government officials. The report of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture on the result of these tests shows that 

 the Wheatland beets are richer than any others pro- 

 duced in the United States, containing 22.09 percent, 

 of saccharine matter, which is 5 per cent, above the 

 average. While comparatively isolated from the 

 sugar beet market at the present time there is no 

 doubt that if sugar beet raising is undertaken on the 

 Wheatland lands on a large scale a factory within 

 profitable shipping distance will be erected. 



Mangel Wurzel and other stock beets produce 

 40 tons to the acre. Carrots produce 20 tons and all 

 stock roots do proportionately well. These are profit- 

 able crops for farmers who combine stock raising 

 with farming, enabling them to fatten stock and put 

 it on the market at any time during the year. 



Watermelons are grown successfully and find a 

 ready market at good prices. They are of fine flavor 

 and weigh 30 to 50 pounds. 



Strawberries, gooseberries, red and black currants, 

 raspberries and blackberries have been raised on the 

 experimental farm with great success for three years. 



Plum, cherry, apple and pear trees have been cul- 

 tivated for three years and are now bearing. With 

 no special attention all of these trees have done well 

 and will be good producers. 



Experiments with tobacco, sweet potatoes and pea- 

 nuts show that all can be successfully cultivated and 

 all, with the exception of tobacco, profitably. 



Tomatoes, cabbage, onions, cucumbers and all 

 small vegetables have been successfully cultivated 

 for three years and a ready market is at hand in 

 Cheyenne and Douglas for all vegetables at good 

 prices. 



PROGRESS OF SETTLEMENT. 



The Development Company lands were put upon 

 the market in February last. A number of Colorado 

 farmers living on rented farms in the Greeley and 

 Eaton irrigation district were immediately attracted 

 by the advantages of the Wheatland tract and dur- 

 ing February, March and April about 13,000 acres 

 were sold to them in farms varying from 40 to 160 

 acres. A number left their rented farms at once 

 and settled at Wheatland, there being about 60 

 actual settlers at the present time, who are cultivat- 

 ing their farms. A number decided to remain in 

 Colorado this season, but will break the sod this 

 coming fall on their Wheatland farms, and move 

 on to them at the close of this year's contract with 

 their lessors. 



All of the settlers who have farmed at Wheatland 

 this year are, without exception, pleased with their 

 new location, and satisfied they have laid the founda- 

 tion for future prosperity and contentment. Although 

 getting their seed in late, they will have full crops 



and will make even the first season's work profitable. 

 All are practical irrigators, and familiar with the 

 climate and soil. They are delighted at being in a 

 district where water is so abundant as under the 

 Wheatland system. 



COMPACTNESS OF LANDS. 



The compact form of the Wyoming Development 

 Company tract is of great advantage to settlers. 

 Quite often irrigation districts and colony sites are in 

 long narrow strips extending along river bottoms or 

 valleys. The Wheatland tract is compact and almost 

 square in form. Short hauls to and from the railway 

 station and to and from town are beneficial results. 

 Schools and churches convenient to a large number 

 of the settlers can be built, and all the advantages of 

 close community and neighborly intercourse be ob- 

 tained the lack of which sometimes makes farm life 

 dreary and monotonous. 



THE EXPERIMENTAL FARM. 



Having the experimental farm on the company 

 lands is of incalculable benefit to settlers. The 

 farmer need make no experiments. What to plant, 

 when to plant, how to irrigate, what are the best va- 

 rieties of seed, what are the most profitable crops, 

 may all be learned without cost. Accurate records of 

 the time of planting, quantity of water required for 

 irrigating, and the results of cultivating all varieties 

 of all kinds of crops have been kept since the estab- 

 lishment of the farm and are at the disposition of the 

 public. From the outset settlers are protected from 

 loss by mistakes in choice of seed by having the ex- 

 perimental farm as their guide. 



COMMUNITY OF PASTURE. 



Farmers usually have to keep part of their holdings 

 in pasture lands if they wish to combine stock raising 

 with farming. This is not so on the Wheatland tract. 

 The entire body of land is fenced and each settler's 



