THE IERIGATION AGE. 



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Track laying on the Pacific Coast extension of the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway goes on at both 

 the east and west ends. Only fifty miles remain to be 

 laid, which means that the track-laying gangs will meet 

 somewhere on the Yellowstone by March 1st. May will 

 probably see the first homeseekers' excursions headed 

 this way. The high priced irrigated valley lands will 

 he used for specialized crops, by the truck fanner, 

 fruit grower, etc. The cost of grubbing sage brush 

 since the advent of the four and six-horse grubbers do- 

 ing custom work at the rate of six to ten acres a day 

 is now $1.25 to $1.50 per acre. 



HOW WE GROW SUGAR BEETS AND MARKET 

 THEM. 



BY JNO. T. HALL. 



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Northern Colorado is noted for the vast amount of 

 sugar it produces. The writer, being fortunate enough 

 to own an eighty-acre farm in this vicinity, can count 

 smoke stacks from five sugar factories, each factory 

 representing an outlay of a million dollars or more. 



In March or the first part of April the ground is 

 plowed to a depth of 'ten inches, thoroughly harrowed 

 and leveled. This is absolutely necessary to pulverize 

 the lumps, cut the elevations and fill the depressions, 

 to make a perfect seed bed for the small seeds, and 

 assist in a perfect and thorough irrigation. 



As early as possible when danger of hard freezing 

 is over, plant the seeds by means of a four-row beet 

 planter manufactured for the purpose. Plant seeds to 

 a depth of one inch after press wheels have passed over 

 the seeds. When seeds have germinated and are be- 

 ginning to break the crust, they should be harrowed 

 lightly lengthwise of the rows, to assist the tender plants 

 to break through the crust if any has formed. 



When the fourth leaf appears they are then ready 

 to be thinned by chopping out with hoe and thinning to 

 a single plant, leaving them from twelve to fourteen 

 inches apart in the row. 



Cultivate with a four-row cultivator, traveling upon 

 the same four rows planted by the drill. Knives or 

 discs should be the first tools used on the cultivator, to 

 destroy the first crop of weeds. Thorough hoeing and 

 cultivating is absolutely necessary until the leaves cover 

 the ground, when they should be furrowed and irrigated 

 at this stage of the crop. About the first of August 

 is the right time to give the beets this first irrigation, 

 to be followed by an irrigation weekly thereafter until 

 the first of September, when the water should be dis- 

 continued and the beets left to ripen. 



Harvesting is begun from September 15 to Octo- 

 ber 1. A beet puller is the first tool used in the har- 

 vesting. This implement loosens the beet, as it takes 

 only one row at a time, and leaves the beet sitting where 

 it grew. 



They are then thrown into windrows of six rows 

 in each windrow, followed by toppers, who cut the tops 

 off and throw them into piles. They are then ready for 

 the wagon to draw them to dumping stations or factory, 

 as the case may be. 



A beet rack six feet wide and eight feet long is 

 what is generally used. This has sideboard hinged and 

 the load is dumped from the side by means of what is 

 called the Carroll dump. This is a structure built 

 above the cars on a grade so a team can pull a loaded 

 wagon up. The wagon is stopped at the extreme top 

 on a pivoted platform, which uplifts on one side and 

 tips the wagon until the beets run out at the other side. 

 The load is weighed over sugar company's scales and a 

 ticket given for the weight of each load. About thir- 

 teen to fifteen tons per acre is an average crop in this 

 locality, and a flat rate of $5 per ton is the price paid. 

 Enclose stamp for answers to questions upon practical 

 irrigation subject. Jno. G. Hall, 820 Second Street, 

 Ivywild, Colorado Springs, Colo. 



