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Live Stock and Farm Notes 
A Market for Bristles 
The magazine known as “The Nation’s 
Ru.'iiness” prints the iiioture which we re- 
proflnce on this piige. This shows some 
Chinamen driving, or rather leading five 
little pigs to market. It would he haid 
to iiick out the breed from this picture, 
but that doesn't matter so much when 
we learn what the.se pigs are foi*. It 
seems that these little fellows are to be 
taken to market, whore they will be 
shiivod or clipped for their bristles. These 
bristles will find their way to America, 
wliere they are made into toothbrushes 
for general use, and “The Nation’s Busi¬ 
ness” says that in the exchange of trade 
between this country and C’hiua, we pay 
in large part for these bristles by sending 
chewing gum back to the Chinese! It all 
goes to show that farming has many 
branches, and a good many .sides to it. 
Not long ago we had a letter from an 
intelligent man. who said he wanted to 
start in the pig business. He had heard 
that the supply of bristles coming fi'oin 
or branches, are seen in every field. Here 
the crates are nailed together and the 
melons crated. Some crates liold 12 
large melons, while others hold 24 to P>{} 
small or Netted Gems. From 7~> cents to 
.'S1.50 per crate was paid last year. This 
enabled the fai-mer to pay all expenses 
and make a fair profit. After being 
crated they are taken to cars ready for 
shipment. 
Many acres of cucumbers are seen 
ripening in the Fall. After fro.st they 
are picked and thrown into large piles 
by Mexicans, where they are thrashed. 
Several men pitch them into the ma¬ 
chine driven by a gasoline engine whore 
the seed is separated from tlie pulp. It 
is then washed by a power washer and 
put on screens to dry. Then when dry it 
is sacked and ready for market. About 
20 cents per pound is paid for the seed, 
while from .500 to 1,000 pounds are raised 
per acre. 
Cantaloupes for seed are harvested in 
much the same way as cucumbers, and 
one raises about the .same amount of .seed 
per acre also, wth a little higher jirice 
paid for the seed. 
Many people are raising pinto or Mex¬ 
ican beans, which have proven to ho vei-y 
productive in this section. There is not 
.«(> much work about raising beans .ns with 
Lea dill fi the Pif/fs to the Itristle Marhet 
Ilu.ssia and (’Ivina is short, while tlie de- 
niiind for them in the form of brushes is 
lu'avier than ever before, so he wanted 
theJiog which would give the stiffest and 
strongest bristles of any breed. We 
should think that a Florida razoi'back 
would meet liis reqnii-einents in this line 
at least. 
News from Colorado 
4’lie Aikansa.s Valley is a very produc¬ 
tive region. The principal crojis are sugar 
beets, cantaloujie.s, pinto beaus, Alfalfa, 
coi'ii, wheat, oats and cane, along with 
seed crops, such as cucumbers, canta¬ 
loupes, spinach and other garden vege¬ 
tables. 
'J'hc sugar hoot ranks first in impor¬ 
tance. Beet ground .should be plowed 
eai-ly and deep, being jnilverized thor¬ 
oughly, and well leveled before planting. 
A drill which plants four rows at a time 
is used. From 12 to 1.5 i>ounds of seed 
are planted to tlie acre. The rows are 
usually 20 indies apart, and the seed is 
sown quite thick in order to insure a good 
stand. The sugar company furnishes the 
seed for 10 cents per pound. As soon as 
the ])lants have four or five leaves they 
are thinned, leaving a plant every eight 
or 10 inches. This work is done by Mex¬ 
icans, who contract by the acre. From 
.$7 to .$9, with fuel and water furnished, 
is paid them. They live in tents and 
board themselves. Beets require from 
four to five cultivations after thinning. 
The weeds are hoed by Mexicau.s at from 
$2 to per acre. About the first or 
middle of Octolier the harvest begins. 
Boots are pulled by a mechanical beet- 
puller drawn by four horses.- The ]\Ie.x- 
icans then top them and thi'ow them into 
piles. For this work they receive $7 or 
$S per acre. Some pile.s of beets are 
usually covered with dirt or siloed; for 
tliose the factory jiays .$1 per ton extra. 
The beets are hauled to the factory iu 
lai'ge beds, holding from thrw to seven 
tons. Two horses haul from three to four 
tons, while four haul from five to s.even 
tons. Beets average from 10 to 20 tons 
per acre, and the price of .$10 per ton has 
been guaranteed for all beets by the Gov¬ 
ernment. The entire cost of Mexican 
labor amounts to about $21 per acye, be¬ 
sides the time and labor spent by the 
farmer. 
I.ast year many cantaloupes were rai.sed 
for market. The prices paid were very 
good. They are planted iu May and 
cai-ed for much the same as beets until 
they begin to vine. In August the liai-- 
vest begins. Cantaloupe sheds, made by 
setting posts as long as the shed is want¬ 
ed (usually about 20 to 20 feet) with 
timbers above covered with straw, leaves 
beets or cantalouiios, and the iirofit is 
very good. They mn.v he planted as lat(‘ 
as the tenth of .Tune, for they mature in 
100 days. As high as r»(K) bushels have 
been raised per acre, with a price of 
about eight cents per pound. 
Fall wheat is raised very successfully 
here, too. with an average yield of about 
40 bushels to the acre. People living on 
the higher-priced land, with an abundance 
of water for irrigating purposes, cannot 
afford to raise wheat and oats, when beets 
and seed crops pay a much larger profit. 
However, under minor ditches where wa¬ 
ter is not so certain, much wheat is raised, 
which does very well, indeed, with the 
Winter’s supply of moisture and one or 
two irrigations in the Siiriug. 
The dairy business has h(#<)me very 
successful in this section of Colorado. A 
large coudensery has been erected in one 
of the towns and all the surrounding 
country within a range of .oO miles s<“nds 
milk there. Tjarge motor trucks make 
daily trips through the couutry, gathering 
up the milk. They haul the milk for the 
farmers at the cost of 20 cents per 100 
pounds. The Industrial Association of 
the town sends out experienced men to 
buy good milk cows and ship them here 
for the farmers. The cows sell at from 
$100 to .$200 each. The different herds 
are made up of Holstein, Jersey, Guern¬ 
sey and Shorthorn cows. By keeping 
cows the hay and grain is kept in the 
comniunit.v and not shipped out, as iu 
former days, thus euriching the ground 
as well as making it more profitable for 
the farmer. Alfalfa hay is raised abund¬ 
antly, while coi-n is becoming a very suc¬ 
cessful crop for silage, as well as the 
mature crop. It was once thought that 
the nights were too cold to raise corn, 
but experience has pi’oveu otherwise. 
Three or four years ago silos were few 
and far between in this country. Now. 
nearly every farm has one, and many 
have two aud^ three silos. 
Beet pulp is a very valuable feed for 
cows, which is bought from the sugar 
factory hy beet gi-owers for 25 cents per 
ton. Many farmers, iff connection with 
the dairy herd, keep some Hereford stock 
which they fatten for market. 
The farmers’ milk pay day is on the 
17th of each month, wlieu they receive 
checks foi' all milk delivered the month 
before. This is treated much as a holi¬ 
day. Farmers all gather and settle 
monthly accounts. After having friendl.v 
chats among one another, they are seen 
going home in their large automobiles. 
Colorado is doing no small hit iu tlie 
raising of food in this great time of need I 
Otero Co., Col. mks. ir. hauball. 
“Did your late uncle remember you 
when he made his will?’’ “I guess so, 
for he loft me out.”—Longhorn. 
