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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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gation farmer holds control of forces whichwith the rainfall farmer are simply casts of the dice. And because of this control, irrigation farming is actually very mucheasier for a city man to understand than rainfall farming. An irrigationfarm can be run like a manufactory. If the Colorado farmer decides to cuthis alfalfa next week Thursday, next week Thursday will hear the mowerrattling down the field. Chapter IV. THE TRIUMPHS OF COLORADO QUALITY IN THE MARKETS AND IN COMPETITION THIS supremacy of the Colorado product is no mere matter of saying so,but is a matter of absolute record. There are two ways by which prod-ucts of any section of the country can be measured against those of therest of the world. One of these is the great national fairs or expositions, andthe other is in the markets of the country. Colorado has had four chances since agriculture and fruit growing havebeen well established to measure her progress against that of the rest of the THE FERTILE LANDS OF COLORADO 15
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A Few Cups Awarded Western Slope Exhibits at various State and National Shows country. These were at the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893, at the LouisianaPurchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904, at the Lewis and. Clark Expositionat Portland, Oregon, in the summer of 1905, and at the national competitionsof the National Horticultural Congress at Council Bluffs, in the falls of 1910and 1911. At the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893, of 371 exhibits from the state ofColorado, 81 special premiums were awarded, covering wheat, oats, rye, barley,potatoes, flax, seeds, flowers, grasses, wool, woods and soil. The wheat exhibitattracted wide attention and 25 awards were given to it alone—the largestnumber received by any one state of the Union. At the St. Louis Fair of 1904 the triumph of Colorado was even moremarked. Three grand prizes were given for exhibitions of the product oforchards and apiaries, and for fruits of various kinds there were 19 goldmedals and 282 other awards. Colorado took either

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