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Colorado Experiment Station 
CROPS GROWN IN THE ORCHARDS 
Alfalfa 
Wheat 
Clover 
Oats Berries Truck 
Clean Rye Peas 
Barley 
liiiicoln Park — 14 
4 
13 
7 44 
63 
74 1 
1 
Ea.st Canon — 144 
8 
9 
4 9 
52 
37 
2 
Four Mile — 63 
4 
4 
1 11 
14 
9 
Penrose — 25 
6 
1 
2 12 
28 
25 
1 
1 
Florence — 7 
1 
2 
12 
2 
1 
Orchard Park — 9 
1 
1 
5 
1 
Park Center — 8 
8 
3 
2 
7 « 
^ Z 
270 
31 
31 
14 81 
181 
151 1 
2 
4 
Counted twice, 
251. 
CLIMATOLOGICAL 
RECORDS OF 
THE CANON 
CITY 
DISTRICT 
The following data 
were 
compiled from the 
records of 
the 
u. s. 
Weather Bureau. The figures show that the climatic conditions are, on 
the whole, very favorable for commercial fruit growing; the growing sea- 
son is long enough to mature the better varieties of tree fruits. Few fruit- 
growing sections can show a more favorable record. 
FROST DATA 
Canon City, Fremont County (Elevation, 5,343 Feet) 
Year 
Date of last 
Date of first 
Length of growing 
season — last killing 
Latest date with 
temperature 
Earliest date with 
temperature 
killing frost in 
killing frost in 
frost to first 
32° or lower in 
32° or lower in 
spring 
autumn 
killing frost 
(Days) 
the spring 
autumn 
1893 
May 1 
Oct. 1 
153 
May 7 
Sept. 27 
1894 
May 23 
Sept. 24 
154 
May 23 
Sept. 24 
1895 
Apr. 22 
Sept. 22 
153 
May 11 
Sept. 22 
1896 
May 1 
Oct. 10 
162 
May 1 
Sept. 28 
1897 
Apr. 11 
Oct. 17 
189 
Apr. 13 
Oct. 12 
1898 
Apr. 13 
Oct. 4 
174 
May 5 
'Oct. 4 
1899 
May 4 
Oct. 18 
167 
May 5 
Oct. 18 
1900 
Apr. 18 
Sept. 28 
163 
Apr. 18 
Sept. 23 
1901 
Apr. 18 
Oct. 13 
178 
Apr. 20 
Oct. 18 
1902 
Apr. 26 
Oct. 25 
182 
Apr. 27 
Sept. 12 
1903 
May 4 
Sept. 17 
136 
May 12 
Sept. 17 
1904 
Apr. 18 
Oct. 19 
184 
May 14 
Oct. 14 
1905 
Apr. 25 
Oct. 1 
159 
May 12 
• Oct. 1 
1906 
Apr. 4 
Oct. 21 
200 
Apr. 4 
Oct. 24 
1907 
May 14 
Nov. 11 
181 
May 15 
Nov. 10 
1908 
May 6 
Sept. 27 
144 
May 6 
Sept. 25 
1909 
May 1 
Oct. 9 
161 
May 1 
Oct. 9 
1910 
May 22 
Oct. 20 
151 
May 22 
Oct. 4 
1911 
Apr. 16 
Oct. 19 
186 
May 2 
Oct. 19 
1912 
Apr. 22 
Oct. 22 
183 
May 14 
Sept. 25 
1913 
Apr. 25 
Sept. 27 
155 
Apr. 25 
Sept. 27 
1914 
Apr. 28 
Nov. 8 
194 
Apr. 28 
Oct. 5 
1915 
May 19 
Oct. 7 
141 
May 20 
Oct. 7 
1916 
May 15 
Sept. 29 
137 
May 15 
Sept. 29 
Location of station in residence district of Canon City, about one mile 
north of river and like distance below mouth of Royal Gorge of Arkansas 
Conditions at station typical of those tliat obtain in the cultivated region nortb 
of river, but probably more favorable to frost than those common to district! 
south of river. 
