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Title: The fertile lands of Colorado and northern New Mexico ..
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company Lyman, Clarence Augustus, 1871-
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Publisher: (Denver?) Passenger Dept., the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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3 $2,000,000 worth every year. Once successfully hatched, chickens do very wellin Colorado. The dry climate is conducive to outdoor activity. Most of thefamiliar chicken diseases and pests of the East are missing. The open, dry,sunny winters are also conducive to winter laying. Experts with experienceboth in Colorado and in the humid sections, such as the shores of Lake Michi-gan, have figured out that an average hen will return in profits nearly sixtyper cent, more in one of the Colorado valleys, with the same consumption offeed. The raising of turkeys is especially profitable in the farming districts ofColorado. The cold rains and damp mornings that work havoc among thechicks in the Eastern climates are wholly lacking in the dry air of the Colo-rado valleys. Alfalfa fields harbor a good many insects, and turkeys rangingin the fields need no feed from spring until fall. Turkeys are also a desirablething in orchards, as they keep up the fight against moths, bugs and otherinsect pests.
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A Bee Farm—Colorado Honey has made Fortunes Bee Keeping in Colorado The late Isaac Watts versed a great truth about the honey gathererswhen he wrote How doth the little busy beeImprove each SHINING hour. Bees prefer to work when the sun shines bright. There are actually justabout double as many working days for bees in the irrigated sections ofColorado as in the East, and so the actual honey production is nearly doubled.In addition, there is a much more constant supply of honey, because irrigationkeeps things always green and growing. The irrigating ditches and canalsare fringed with sweet clover, while the ever blooming alfalfa fields, the fruitblossoms and even the desert flowers furnish an almost unlimited constantsupply of bee pasture. 34 THE FERTILE LANDS OF COLORADO Many men have rolled up little fortunes in a few years with bees. Oneman came into the Grand Valley with very little money and absolutely noknowledge of bees except what he could pick up from books, started in asma

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