Agricultural Products Shipped Into Colorado 
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FAT ANIMALS SHIPPED IN FOR SLAUGHTER: 
Cattle. 
Hogs. 
Calves. 
$1,297,872 
2,245,288 
25,220 
$3,568,380 
MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS: 
Fresh Meat: 
Beef. 
Pork. 
Veal. 
Mutton. 
.. 591,600 
10,800 
$1,094,080 
Smoked Meats. 
Lard. 
Lard Compounds. 
Butterine. 
Mince Meat. 
Extract of Beef. 
. . $918,000 
520,000 
93,000 
930,000 
15,680 
70,000 
$2,546,680 
Canned Meats: 
Beef, Veal, Bacon, Ham, Chicken, 
etc. 
. . $1,200,000 
Total. $8,409,140 
PORK: 
Of the 241,570 hogs received at the Denver Stock Yards in 1909, 
61,947, or a fraction over one-fourth, were grown in Colorado. 
The value of hogs, pork and pork products shipped into Colorado 
in 1909 were: 
Hogs. $2,245,288 
Fresh Pork. 591,600 
Smoked Meats. 918,000 
Lard. 520,000 
Total. $4,274,888 
Experts estimated that the value of the pork and pork products 
shipped from the corn belt into the Rocky Mountain and northwestern 
territory, of which Denver is the gateway, amounts annually to six¬ 
teen million dollars. 
The three cracker factories of Denver used in 1909 as much lard 
as was furnished by all the Colorado hogs slaughtered in Denver. Yet 
every tillable section of Colorado is adapted to the cheap production 
of pork of the best quality. 
Barley fed pork is the highest priced pork in the world, on account 
of its superior flavor. The irrigated sections of Colorado yield barley 
at a less cost per acre than the cost of growing corn in Iowa and 
Illinois, and the production of pork per acre from irrigated barley 
is greater than that of pork from corn in the corn belt. 
The right strains of barley give profitable yields under dry land 
farming both on the plains and at high altitudes. 
Milo is the surest grain crop for dry land farming on the Plains, 
and produces a choice quality of pork. The Plains farmers alone could 
produce all the pork and pork products needed in Colorado and adjoin¬ 
ing states if they would make a specialty of pork raising, fattening 
with Milo. 
