SOME PRESS BULLETINS. 
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whose work is already hard enough when starting in a new home. 
The calves should be sold for veal as soon as old enough, and 
the work saved in not raising them by hand can be put on the crops 
and in making improveemnts. . 
The warm separator milk can be fed at a good profit to pigs and 
poultry, giving another source of cash income to the new settler. 
Sorghum should be sown broadcast to be fed in the fall to keep 
up the flow of milk. 
In selecting range cows for dairy work the grade short-horn has 
been usually found the most satisfactory. The cow should be selected 
for four dairy points—a good udder, prominent hip bones, a sharp 
bone at the top of the shoulder and large .stomach capacity. The 
writer selected a carload of range cows along these lines: None of 
them had been fed grain and several had to be roped before they 
could be milked. These cows averaged over $40 per head the first 
year in cream sold to the creamery, and one cow with these points 
well developed produced $60 worth of cream the first year. 
PREPARATION OF SEED BED. 
HINTS TOR THT PLAINS. 
BY W. PI. OLIN. 
Crop conditions in Eastern Colorado are so different from crop 
conditions in the humid region that special attention should be called 
to them for the benefit of the new settler. 
The very best system of tillage may fail to produce a crop some 
years, but proper soil management and use of acclimated seed adapted 
to prevailing conditions tend to render crop failures less frequent 
and harvests therefore more remunerative. 
In the farming operations of many parts of Eastern Colorado, 
where irrigation can not be practiced, the amount of water available 
to plants is the “limiting condition of success,” as Prof. Failyer calls 
it. Here is found abundance of cheap land, quite fertile, and water is 
the element that must be most carefully conserved to insure a crop. 
No rain water must be allowed to run to waste if possible to store it 
in the soil. Rains on the plains are usually quick dashing rains and 
the seed should be in such tilth that both upper soil and subsoil 
will readily absorb the water which falls during the crop season. 
The preparation of the seed bed calls for careful plowing, harrow¬ 
ing and sub-surface packing. 
Experience demonstrates that the preparation of the so:) reservoir 
(seed bed) of good depth several months before seeding, the thorough 
culture of the ground before and after seeding, are essentials that 
very largely determine success in Eastern Colorado. Summer tillage 
conserves moislture while it renders more plant food available, keeps 
down weeds, and keeps the soil in good tilth. 
