GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN COLORADO. 



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did the plowing with a sulky. Other types, such as the 14-inch 

 walking plow and the two-furrow gang, appeared in scattered records. 



Table VIII. — Plowing data for three Colorado districts. 



District. 



Year. 



Number 

 o£ farms. 



Acres 

 plowed 

 per farm 



Crew. 



Hours per acre. 



Total 



Man. 



Horse. 



Man. 



Horse. 



cost per" 

 acre. 



Rockv Ford 



1914-15 



1915 

 1914-15 



- 104 

 66 

 183 



22.33 

 36.06 

 26.30 



1 

 1 

 1 



3.41 

 3.84 

 3.80 



5.70 

 4.87 

 5.30 



18.3 



18.67 



19.80 



$2.86 





2.98 





3.19 







The crews for the respective districts varied somewhat in size. 

 Sixty-three per cent of the Rocky Ford growers did this work with a 

 crew consisting of one man and three horses, whereas 27 per cent 



FlG. 5. — Breaking alfalfa with an ordinary sulky plow. This type in point of numbers stood second. 

 On the above farm a considerable growth of alfalfa is being incorporated with the soil. 



plowed with one man and four horses. Fort Morgan reported 22 

 crews with one man and three horses, 32 crews with one man and 

 four horses, and 12 crews with one man and five horses. In the 

 Greeley district the crews were distributed as follows: Sixty-six 

 crews of one man and three horses; 80 crews of one man and four 

 horses; 32 crews of one man and five horses. There were a few crews 

 of odd sizes. By taking the crews according to size and combining 

 these for the three districts it was found that in 1914 and 1915 154 

 farmers with 1-3 crews plowed at an average cost of $2.60 per acre; 

 141 with 1-4 crews at an average cost of $3.30, and 45 with 1-5 crews 

 at an average cost of $3.63. 



This does not necessarily mean that the large crews were less effi- 

 cient than the crew consisting of one man and three horses. When the 



