RAISING HOGS IN COLORADO 
H. M. COTTRELL 
ADVANTAGES IN COLORADO TOR RAISING HOGS. 
The feeds raised in Colorado for fattening animals are the 
feeds which produce the choicest flavor in meat that it is possible 
to secure. Delicious flavor is the marked characteristic of Colo¬ 
rado-fed meat, whether it be beef, mutton, pork, or poultry. 
Barley is adapted to every tillable section of Colorado, with 
the possible exception of the Arkansas Valley. It yields well, is 
a cheap crop to produce, and barley-fed pork, because of its flavor, 
sells for the highest prices in every market in the world where it 
is offered. 
Field peas is one of the best yielding and cheapest grown 
crops in the mountain valleys that have an altitude of 6,500 to 
8,000 feet. The flavor of pea-fed pork is considered by many 
epicures to be richer and more toothsome than that produced from 
any other feed. Barley yields well in all pea-growing sections, 
giving the feeders the benefits from both grains. These high val¬ 
leys cover a large area, one, the San Luis, having* a tillable area 
as large as the State of Connecticut. 
Alfalfa thrives on a large part of the cultivated area of the 
State. Hogs make cheap gains on both the pasture and the hay, 
and alfalfa gives a choice flavor to the meat. 
Barley, milo maize and wheat are profitable hog feeds, and 
are the surest grain crops for the dry land farming of the plains. 
Usually in the dry land sections much more can be made from 
wheat by feeding it to hogs than by selling it for grain. 
Pork can be produced cheaply with proper management in 
Colorado. Barley, under irrigation, costs less an acre to raise 
than corn in the Mississippi Valley states, and will produce more 
pork. From 500 to 1,000 pounds of gain can be put on hogs 
during the season from an acre of alfalfa pasture. It costs, in¬ 
cluding the rent of the land, from $3 to $6 an acre to raise field 
peas, and feeders estimate that an acre of good peas, when pastured 
off, will put 400 pounds of gain on hogs. 
market supply and demand. 
Denver is the chief packing center of Colorado, and hogs have 
been received at the Denver Union Stock Yards as follows: 
1906 1907 
Hogs from all sources.. 192,720 241,393 
Hogs from Colorado points. 17,000 33,951 
Received from Colorado. 8.82% 14.06% 
1908 
280,228 
61,049 
21.78% 
The larger part of the hogs received at Denver come from 
