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BUL/LETTST 12G, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



while in the Rocky Ford region it was about $2.50. A day's work 

 with a cultivator varied on the average from 8.4 acres in the Rocky 

 Ford district to 8.8 acres in the Greeley district. 



Table XIX. — Furrowing data for three Colorado districts. 





Year. 



Num- 

 ber of 



farms. 



Acres 

 fur- 

 rowed 

 per 

 farm. 



Num- 

 ber 

 times 

 fur- 

 rowed. 



Crew. 



Hours per acre. 



Total 

 cost 

 per 

 acre. 



District. 



Man. 



Horse. 



Man. 



Horse. 



Rocky Ford 



1914-15 



1915 

 1914-15 



66 

 66 

 195 



20.73 



36.9 



25.76 



2.75 



1.08 

 1.42 



1 

 1 



1 



1.93 

 2.00 

 1.98 



2.93 



.99 

 1.51 



5.80 

 2.08 

 2.94 



$1.11 



Fort Morgan 



.42 





.61 







: ^M. 







Fig. 16. — Cultivating sugar beets. 



Eighty-eight per cent of the growers reported on furrowing, or 

 preparation for irrigation. In the Rocky Ford district the operators 

 furrowed approximately three times, one furrowing coming early, 

 immediately after planting. There was an intermediate furrowing 

 and a third after cultivation had ceased. Cultivating the land after 

 •an irrigation necessitates a repetition of the furrowing. In northern 

 Colorado furrowing was done almost entirely after the last cultiva- 

 tion. This operation required, in general, a crew of one man and 

 two horses. The variation in cost in 1914 and 1915 shown in Table 

 XIX is mainly due to variation in the number of times the fields 

 were furrowed. A day's work furrowing ranged from 9.4 acres to 

 10 acres as averages for these groups. 



