Agricultural Products Shipped Into Colorado 
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per cent, of the native cattle of Colorado show any trace of tubercu¬ 
losis, and less than two per cent, of the cows in Colorado cities, where 
they are closely confined. 
The pure air of the high altitude and the intense sunshine—an 
average of three hundred and twenty days of sunshine each year— 
make the air much freer from germs which taint milk than the air 
in low, humid states. For this reason it is much easier and costs less 
to keep milk and cream sweet in Colorado than it does in states East. 
POULTRY AND EGGS. 
Eggs. $2,000,000 
Poultry. $2,000,000 
Total. $4,000,000 
Fifty car loads of eggs were taken in a single month from cold 
storage plants in the East and brought to Denver. Poultry is shipped 
direct from Omaha to Glenwood Springs and other mountain towns. 
Even in mountain towns as distant as Telluridfe, poultry and eggs are 
shipped direct from Wichita, Kansas. In July, 1909, the hotels in 
Durango were obliged to furnish their guests Kansas eggs because 
Colorado eggs could not be secured. 
During the past Fall and Winter an average of $i,uoo per week 
has been sent out of Fort Collins for Kansas and Nebraska eggs, and 
most towns in Colorado have sent out proportionate amounts. One 
Bank in Denver reports that its customers, alone, send an average of 
$10,000 a week to Nebraska for poultry. 
An investigation made in Pueblo by the Business Mens' Associa¬ 
tion showed that more money was being sent out of that city to other 
states for poultry and eggs and butter than was being spent in the 
city by the 4,000 employes of the great ten million dollar steel plant 
of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, and by the employes of the 
smelters. Denver dealers handle an average of over $3,000 worth of 
eggs, daily, and a large part of this is brought from other states. 
Two years ago the Farmers’ Institute-Department of the Colo¬ 
rado Agricultural College made an investigation of egg production 
in Colorado, having the assistance of a poultry expert from the East 
as well as Colorado poultry experts. 
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It was found that in both small and large flocks and in vari¬ 
ous parts of the state, poultrymen who thoroughly understood the 
managing of the business under Colorado conditions of feed and 
climate were making an average of $2.00 a hen a year above the cost 
of feed. Poultrymen around New York, Boston, and Philadelphia 
were making but half this amount. 
At the same time most of the Colorado farmers, who were con¬ 
sulted, reported that their hens were “eating their heads off” and that 
keeping poultry was a loss to them. 
Colorado needs, at the present time, at least 5,000 men who are 
