Agricultural Products Shipped Into Colorado 
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With many products shipped into Colorado, the consumption 
would be larger could home products be secured. When people are 
obliged to use cold storage eggs, the consumption drops to a frac¬ 
tion of that when fresh layed eggs are available. More meat, more 
butter, more cream and milk, and more fruit and vegetables are 
eaten when strictly fresh, home produced products can be secured. 
We need 30,000 more farmers this year in order to produce the 
agricultural products that will be consumed in the State. We need 
men who are skillful in the management of beef and dairy cattle, 
hogs and poultry; grain, fruit and vegetable growers, and men who 
can produce choice raw material for canning and pickle factories. 
The potatoes and fresh fruits grown in Colorado have a Nation¬ 
al reputation for choice quality and there is every reason to believe 
that if a surplus above home needs were produced, a large 
demand could be created in other States for Colorado' meats, dairy 
products, poultry and eggs, seeds, canned goods, and dried fruits. 
It will require thousands of farmers to produce a sufficient surplus 
of these products to secure a large outside market. 
SECURING ESTIMATES. 
The figures given in this bulletin are estimates only. They are 
based on the most accurate data that could be secured and are con¬ 
servative estimates, considered in many cases by the largest handlers 
of the products to be low. 
The writer has had charge for over three years of the Farmers’ 
Institute Work of the Agricultural College and during that time has 
traveled over 60,000 miles in Colorado. During the three years he 
and his associates from the college in Institute Work, 35 in num¬ 
ber, have been collecting data in regard to the agricultural products 
originating in the State and those shipped in. The data so obtained 
have been used as the basis for these estimates. 
In addition to the above information the railroads furnished 11s 
with a statement of the exact number of tons of each agricultural 
product from the Missouri River, Eastern and Texas points that 
were shipped in 1908, and in the first four months of 1909, into, but 
not through, Colorado, to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Trini¬ 
dad and other points by wav of the Santa Fe, Burlington, Rock Is¬ 
land, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, Rio Grande and Colorado & 
Southern Railroads. These figures were used as the basis for esti¬ 
mates where accurate statements for 1909 could not be secured. 
The Rock Island and the Denver & Rio Grande furnished state¬ 
ments of the exact tonnage of all agricultural products brought by 
by these railroads in 1909. 
The Burlington and Union Pacific Railroads furnished us the 
tonnage of grain and grain products brought by them into Colorado 
in iqck), and the Union Pacific gave us a statement of the tonnage of 
hay brought into the State by that railroad in 1909. The Santa Fe 
Railroad furnished us a statement of the tons of grain and grain 
products brought into Colorado in 1909 by that road. 
