GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN COLORADO. 

 Table XVIII. — Cultivating data for three Colorado districts. 



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Year. 



Num- 

 ber of 

 farms. 



Acres 

 culti- 

 vated 

 per 

 farm. 



Num- 

 ber 

 times 

 culti- 

 vated. 



Crew. 



Hours per acre. 



Total 



Efisteict. 



Man. 



Horse. 



Man. 



Horse. 



per 

 acre. 





1914-15 



1915 

 1914-15 



110 

 66 

 195 



22.90 



36.9 



26.09 



5.54 

 5.09 

 4.31 



1 

 1 



1 



1.96 

 2.00 

 2.00 



6.54 

 4.94 

 4.85 



12.8 

 9.89 

 9.35 



$2,46 





2.03 



Greeley 



1.95 



soil between the rows. All of the small weeds outside of the row 

 are cut off at the first cultivation. The object usually is to make a 

 mulch of granular soil, which checks the upward movement of 



Fig. 15. — Giving the first cultivation. This work is done as soon as the plants show four leaves. 



moisture, but does not blow readily. On some farms the .disk 

 cultivator is used for the preliminary work. The dates of cultiva- 

 tion varied for the majority of operators from May to July. On 

 some farms work on late beets ran into August. It is customary in 

 these three areas to give from three to five cultivations per season. 

 The Greeley growers averaged slightly more than four times in 

 cultivating the beet crop in 1914-15 (fig. 16). 



All of the farmers reported on this operation. The common-field 

 crew required in handling the ordinary 4-row cultivator consisted of 

 one man and two horses. There were a few operators who culti- 

 vated with a one-man-one-horse crew on small tracts. The cost per 

 acre was approximately $2 for the Fort Morgan and Greeley areas, 



