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chiefly from Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Wyoming. Most of it 
was shipped in to be fed to horses and was hay made from native 
grasses. 
During this same time a large quantity of alfalfa hay was shipped 
to southern states for feeding work animals—horses, mules, and oxen. 
Colorado alfalfa hay is in demand in eleven southern States—planters, 
contractors and other large users of horses, mules, and oxen consider¬ 
ing it the best feed for animals doing hard work. Colorado horsemen 
do not like alfalfa for this purpose. 
Colorado men handling large numbers of horses and mules doing 
heavy work consider that the best hay for work animals is timothy, 
grown at an altitude of 7,000 to 8,500 feet. The timothy hay grown 
at these altitudes in Grand, Routt, and Gunnison Counties sells in the 
wholesale markets of eastern Colorado at from $4.00 to $5.00 a ton 
more than the hay that is shipped into the state. 
Timothy at these high altitudes yields two tons and upwards an 
acre, and is a profitable crop. Any one of these three Counties has 
a sufficient area to supply all the hay of this character needed in 
Colorado markets, but has not the farmers to produce it. Any con¬ 
siderable increase in the quantity of hay produced in these sections will 
have to be secured from new settlers. 
Eleven southern States want Colorado alfalfa to feed to their work 
animals, and there is a large and continually increasing demand from 
all the eastern states for Colorado alfalfa hay, and alfalfa meal. Ap¬ 
preciation of alfalfa hay is growing much faster in the United States 
than is production, and if Colorado had the farmers to grow it, a 
good demand would be found for many times the quantity of good 
alfalfa hay than is now being produced in the state. 
FIELD SEEDS. 
Alfalfa Seed. $150,000 
Seed Potatoes. 30,000 
Timothy Seed. 50,000 
Sorghum, Kafir, and Milo. 6,000 
Millet Seed. 4,000 
Total... . $240,000 
Alfalfa Seed.-.This season, up to February 1st, 1910, 32 cars 
of alfalfa seed shipped direct from Germany had been sold in Colorado, 
and importers expect to sell several more cars of this seed before the 
end of the seeding season. These 32 cars cost, wholesale, $4,300 per 
car, a total of $137,600. 
German alfalfa seed has a very high germination test, but the 
adaptability of the various German strains of alfalfa to Colorado con¬ 
ditions, and the quality of hay that they produce, have not been de¬ 
termined. 
A few years ago Colorado received large shipments of alfalfa 
seed from Utah, and the alfalfa from Utah seed was found to be par¬ 
ticularly adapted to our conditions. Practically no Utah alfalfa seed 
