BULLETIN 917, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table I. — Crop enterprise records obtained in Colorado in 1918. 

 [The data collected pertain to the 1917 crop year.] 









Number of records obtained. 1 









District. 



Alfalfa. 



Barley. 



V.'heat. 



Oats. 



Beans. 



Corn. 



Pota- 

 toes. 



Canta- 

 loupes. 



Cucum- 

 bers. 



Greeler 



36 

 35 



25 



33 



22 



9 

 7 

 6 



15 

 12 

 10 



58 

 2 

 14 



5 

 2 

 3 



46 





Fort Morgan 





Rockv Ford 





16 



16 













Total 



96 



55 



22 



■ 37 74 10 



46 



16 



16 



1 The 46 potato records which have been included in this study were obtained by the Office of Farm 

 Management in a preliminary survey of the cost of producing potatoes during the yeais 1912 and 1913. 

 These potato-enterprise records were taken in Weld County, Colo., by Mr. H. H. Clark. 



The importance of the various crops is reflected to some extent in 

 the number of records obtained in the three districts. For instance, 

 alfalfa is an important crop in all areas, while potatoes were relatively 



LAS ANIMAS BACA 



Fig. 1.— Map of Colorado, showing the three districts included in this survey (areas with diagonal lines) 

 in Weld, Morgan, and Otero Counties. The location of each sugar factory operating in 1917 is shown by 

 a black dot within a circle. Each factory idle in 191/ 's shown by a circle half black and half white. 

 The factory formerly operated at Holly, Prowers County, hae been removed . 



unimportant except in the Greeley district. Again, cantaloupes and 

 cucumbers are grown commercially only in the Rocky Ford district, 

 while barley is not grown to any great extent there. Although corn 

 is increasing in importance in all the areas, this crop in 1917 was rela- 

 tively of very little significance. The districts covered in this work 

 are shown on the map (fig. 1) . 



