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COLORADO EXPERIMENT STATION 
Field peas as grown in the San Luis Valley make a better flavored 
pork than either corn or barley, and hogs in the San Luis Valley can 
be fattened on peas at a cost of one and one half cents per pound for 
the gain in live weight. There are three million acres in the San Luis 
Valley adapted to pea growing and a much larger area at high alti¬ 
tudes in other sections of Colorado. 
Colorado should not only supply all the pork and pork products 
needed in the State, but should furnish the high priced, choicest pork, 
and pork products to the rest of the United States. The State needs 
50,000 farmers who are expert swine growers and feeders. The 
majority of Colorado farmers have failed to make hogs profitable 
because they have neglected the growing pigs through the summer. 
Beef .—Colorado beef cattle are better bred than those of most 
of the range states. The native grasses are not excelled for making 
growth on young stock and for putting flesh on older cattle. The 
meat produced from the grass and from the hay made from native 
grasses is of exceptionally choice flavor. The Colorado Experiment 
Station and private feeders have demonstrated that our grains, al¬ 
falfa, and roots produce, economically, beef of superior flavor with 
light waste in slaughtering and in cooking. 
Fresh beef and veal are shipped weekly from the corn belt into 
most Colorado towns, and fat cattle were shipped, in 1909, from 
other states into Colorado, as follows: 
Cattle Calves 
Nebraska. 3,778 716 
Wyoming. 10,299 1,118 
Kansas. 1,478 402 
l tah. 5,177 70 
Idaho. 3,823 151 
Nevada . 795 19 
Oregon. .. 723 46 
Montana. 343 .... 
California. 623 .... 
Total. 27,039 2,522 
If Colorado cattle growers appreciated the value of our feeds, 
and would make a business of finishing their stock before marketing, 
we could not only supply our own needs for beef and veal, but on 
account of the flavor of meats made from Colorado feeds could create 
a widespread trade outside the state. 
Bn+tcrine .—There has been such a scarcity of butter in the state 
and the prices have been so high that during the past year there has 
been an abnormal increase in the use of butterine, experts estimating 
that an average of over 10,000 pound's per day is used in Colorado, 
and that there will be a large increase over this during the coming 
year. Government officials state that over four times the number of 
people are selling butterine in Colorado than were in the business 
eighteen months ago. 
Fresh Meats. —Fresh meat is regularly shipped from Omaha to 
