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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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Department, which keeps forest wardensconstantly patrolling them, to prevent fires, to stop the wanton waste oftimber, to protect the fish and game, to guard the streams from pollution, andto regulate the pasturing of stock. The day of the range steer in Colorado is about past. While in the futurethe public ranges will be pastured fully as heavily as now, probably evenmore economically and carefully, they will be used not for the production offeeders to be sent to the feed lots of the corn belt to be finished off formarket, but as nurseries for baby beef to be finished in the feed lots in theadjoining valleys. With alfalfa, most nutritious of all forage crops, and with field peas inthe valleys too high for alfalfa, with barley and oats in place of corn, Coloradofeeders are now turning off steers of the very highest quality, and at muchless expense than in the corn country. Without expense for feed sheds orshelters for the stock, without having to devote any part of their tilled acres
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Grand Champion Feeders, International Live Stock Exposition, Chicago.Bred and Raised near Montrose, Colorado THE FERTILE LANDS OF COLORADO 29 to summer pasture, without the diseases common in the damper climates, suchas tuberculosis; with healthier, stronger cattle; without the pest of flies inthe hot weather, the Colorado feeders can produce the very acme of quality.It is something new in Colorado—the painstaking finishing up of the youngsteer—and most of the men who are at it are men who came to Colorado fromthe corn belt. But they are making money—every year more money—and theword they send back to the Mississippi Valley is bringing out every year moreof their neighbors, eager to take advantage of opportunities long neglected byColoradoans, but which seem like so many gold mines to the Easterners.

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