Cost of Producing Beets 243 
Mendelson! reports as follows results of a hearing 
before the United States Food Administration at Fort 
Morgan, Colorado, in 1918, on the work required in 
raising sugar-beets : 
PABNET ING 
S4AI% 
CULTIVATING 
ell Ke 
Fig. 29. — Man labor on sugar-beets. (F. W. Peck.) 
“Spreading manure. Two men, four horses, and 
spreader will spread 20 beet boxes of manure on two 
acres in one day. 
“Crowning alfalfa (once in 4 years). One man and 
five horses will crown three and one-half acres per day. 
“ Harrowing the crowning twice (once in 4 years). One 
man and three horses will harrow twenty acres per day. 
“Floating the crowning (once in 4 years). One man 
and four horses will float 15 acres per day. 
1 Mendelson, H., ‘‘A Day’s Work,’, Sugar, Vol. 20, p. 140 
(April, 1918). 
