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DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



From this section we will go to Haxtum and Holyoke in the northeast 

 portion of Colorado. Most of the farming around Haxtum is on a black, 

 sandy loam soil which on dry years is quite superior in crop results to 

 the clay loam or "hard lands." Here winter wheat runs from fifteen to 

 twenty-seven bushels per acre; spring wheat (durum) twelve to twenty 

 bushels; corn fifteen to thirty-five bushels; potatoes of good quality yield- 

 ing as high as 150 bushels per acre. Cane, millet and other feed crops did 

 well and all kinds of livestock are, therefore, faring well this winter. Wheat 

 has gone into the winter in good condition. 



Holyoke reports winter wheat yields froni ten to twenty-one bushels; 

 spring wheat, fifteen to tw^enty bushels; corn, ten to twenty bushels with 

 a very satisfactory yield of feed crops. Mr. George Wilcox reports 1,520 

 bushels Turkey red wheat from forty acres. A. C. Cauble. thirty-four 

 bushels per acre of speltz (emmer) and Pennington & Son, 240 bushels 

 potatoes (14,400 pounds) per acre. 



Mrs. S. S. Worley of Holyoke shows how the hen works to "help out" 

 on the farm. She started in the spring with eighty B. P. Rock hens. She 

 raised 325 chicks, supplied her table with eggs and poultry meat and, after 

 accounting for what grain she had to feed the chickens, beside what they 

 picked up and thereby saved on the farm, she had $200 to her credit and 

 has ninety good pullets to repeat her experience in the spring. She sold 

 500 dozen eggs during the season. She ,also cleared $110 from three dairy 

 cows. The hen and the dairy cow should be welcomed and kept on every 

 eastern Colorado farm. It is an astonishing fact, too, that when ten or 

 more hogs are raised there is either no mortgage or it soon disappears. 



Sterling and LeRoy report one of the best upland crops which they 

 ever raised. Winter wheat ran fifteen to forty-five bushels per acre; pota- 

 toes, fifty to one hundred sacks "above the ditch" and as high as 230 sacks 

 largely grown in this section, oats running ten to twenty bushels; wheat, 

 five to twenty-five bushels; barley, ten to eighteen bushels. Corn was a 

 fairly good crop, yielding from eight to thirty bushels per acre. Cane gave 

 fifty to one hundred sacks "above the ditch" and as high as 230 sacks 

 "under the ditch." The financial panic is only a joke to Logan County 

 farmers. 



Akron, next to Cheyenne Wells, is considered the highest section of 

 eastern Colorado. It lies about 115 miles east of Denver and some seventy 

 miles from east line of the state. One farmer, from eighty acres of rye, 

 wheat and barley, threshed 1,300 bushels of grain. Small grain was quite 

 largely gpown in this section, oats running ten to twenty bushels; wheat, 

 five to twenty-five bushels; barley, ten to eighteen bushels. Corn was a 

 fairly good crop, yielding from eight to thirty bushels per acre. Cane gave 

 two to three and one-half tons per acre forage; millet, one and one-half 

 to two tons. Potatoes, fifty to sixty sacks per acre. 



Yuma, east of Akron, had a hailed district north of town, but re- 

 ports corn from ten to thirty bushels per acre. Two thorough farmers 

 south of town had forty-eight and fifty-four bushels respectively. Be- 

 tween them they raised 120 acres of corn. Wheat gave ten to twenty- 



