Review of reviews and world's work . tingare literally minions of aires in Coloradoready to spring into splendid fruitfulm Hut It will t .000 additional farms simply to supply Colorados cash Shafroth. and we have roomfor several hundred thousand farmers who willbe able to supply the markets of neighboringStates or of the Far East, should the land nowlying untouched be put under needs farmers alone who areexpert swine growers and feeder- C< radoneeds at least ;ooo men who are expert Lproduction. We need more orchardists. Wehave on our western slope
Review of reviews and world's work . tingare literally minions of aires in Coloradoready to spring into splendid fruitfulm Hut It will t .000 additional farms simply to supply Colorados cash Shafroth. and we have roomfor several hundred thousand farmers who willbe able to supply the markets of neighboringStates or of the Far East, should the land nowlying untouched be put under needs farmers alone who areexpert swine growers and feeder- C< radoneeds at least ;ooo men who are expert Lproduction. We need more orchardists. Wehave on our western slope thousand- <.<i acresof land which can be made as rich and profit-able as any of those which producingthe finest fruit in the world. If thensufficient number of men to growColorado could not alone fully supply it- ownmarket, but could fill the demand in all <mountain Sta. erroneous impression exists that (rado is. characteristically, a mining may have been true in those other ADVERTISIXG THE STATE OF COLORADO J29. ONE HUNDRED WHEAT STACKS IN SIGHT OF LONGS PEAK, COLORADO days before the wand of irrigation changed itat a touch into a great producing center forthe growing things of earth. The productionof its farm, range and orchard products in1909 was the most remarkable in its history.•rnor Shafroth quotes the value of cattleraised as over $15,000,000, of hogs $5,631,000,of sheep $5,700,000. of h .130,000. of dairy products $28,000,000, of sugar ,000, of potatoes $0,150,000. Its for-age and hay crops amounted to approximately000,000. It prultry and eggs. It- be 1 ltu r product$12,600,000 and its fruit had a State report- on agricultural productsgive the output of these at 1dairy product 00,000, and k, wool, hi* 1,000. or tnbined. The mineraloutput ior 1 ^27. rn lamp that I illy, tl:. I migration• rated - the 1I I Colorado has ,2 5 5 acres under irrigation,practically all of them producing the most re-markable crops i
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