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 
EGsferict. 
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 
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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, 
