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BULLETIN 726, XT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
trash. Only a few growers, however, reported on this operation. 
This work in a number of cases was included with the lifting of the 
crop, and on other farms the contract laborer was required to do 
this work with a garden rake as a part of his contract labor. The 
number of records obtained was not large enough to warrant any 
definite conclusions with reference to the time consumed or the cost 
per acre. A span of horses with a V-shaped leveler can prepare 
sufficient space for several rows of beets in a short time (fig. 24). 
HAULING. 
It has been pointed out that hauling is done 'at the same time as 
the hf ting and topping. Ninety-six per cent of the growers included 
in tins investigation gave information on hauling; the remainder of 
Fig. 25.— Loading sugar beets with fork from small piles in field. 
these growers hired hauhng done by contract. Heavy wagons were 
used, equipped with strong, well-built beet boxes of special type 
(figs. 25 and 26), The loading was done with forks or by hand. 
Rain occasionally leaves the ground heavy and makes it necessary 
to use an extra team. In cases in which the crop was delivered 
directly to the cars at the loading station, no hand labor was required. 
The unloading at the beet dump was done mechanically (figs. 27 and 
28). 
In the Rocky Ford district 22 growers marketed the beets with a 
crew of one man and two horses, while 67 growers utilized a 1-4 
crew. In the Fort Morgan area 43 operators used a crew consisting 
of one man and two horses, while 13 growers hauled with a crew 
of one man and four horses. The Greelev area, which furnished 
