GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN COLORADO. 59 



A review of these tables will show that some of the operations were 

 not common to all farms. This was particularly true of such work as 

 disking, harrowing with a spring tooth, rolling the land prior to plant- 

 ing, sledding out, and pitting sugar beets. Such major field opera- 

 tions as plowing, harrowing with a spike tooth, leveling, planting, 

 cultivating, furrowing out, the handwork, hf ting and hauling, are 

 common to practically all farms. There may be a slight variation in 

 the number of times each operation is performed. 



Referring to the Rocky Ford summary table, it will be seen that a 

 few farmers harrowed twice with the spike tooth, that others went 

 over their fields three or four times with this implement, and that in 

 one case the ground was harrowed seven times. When extra work 

 is done, and this applies to several operations on the same farm, it 

 will have a tendency to give a man and horse labor requirement 

 somewhat above the average. 



On a few farms it was necessary to do some replanting. If two- 

 tenths of the field had to be reseeded, then the number of times over 

 is indicated by 1.2. It will be noted that a small amount of work 

 in addition to the hand labor, such as lifting and hauling, was done 

 on a contract basis. 



