GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN COLORADO. 
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Arkansas Valley than in northern Colorado. In the latter district 
surplus beets were thrown in large piles at the receiving stations and 
loaded at times when the delivery from the growers was slack (fig. 23). 
In the Arkansas Valley when beets are held in the field they are 
placed in a cone-shaped pile and are covered with a small quantity 
of earth to prevent freezing. As soon as the beets have all been 
harvested and available supplies have been sliced, the growers are 
called upon to deliver their pitted beets. Inasmuch as this opera- 
tion required extra labor, the sugar company paid an additional 
premium of 75 cents per ton over and above the regular market price. 
Twenty-eight growers reported on pitting beets in the Kocky Ford 
district. These men cared for 6.6 acres per farm in this way. The 
average yield for this area was 13.2 tons per acre. Man labor only 
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Fig. 24.— Leveling a strip of land upon which topped beets are to be piled. The contract requires the 
man who is engaged to do the hand labor to clean off and level the ground so that the beets may be 
thrown into the wagon free from dirt or trash. In this case the operator did a large part of the hand labor. 
was involved, the cost per acre approximating $1.30 in 1914 and 
1915. On some farms it is necessary to use horses to haul beets to 
the pit. There were three records reported from the Greeley area 
and a like number from the Fort Morgan district. Both man and 
horse labor entered into this work. The cost varied from $1.83 per 
acre at Greeley to $2.80 per acre at Fort Morgan. 
LEVELING FOR BEET PILES. 
Within recent years a large number of farmers have adopted the 
practice of using a V leveler for the purpose of making a smooth 
strip of soil upon which to throw the beets. Where no leveling is 
done, small clods and beet tops will be taken up when the sugar 
beets are loaded on the wagon. Leveling removes a part of this 
