GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN COLORADO. 
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The blocking and thinning are usually contracted, but some farmers 
do their own work in hoeing the crop. Occasionally all of the hand- 
work will be done by the farmer, his family, and hired hands. 
The number of times the crop is cultivated varies considerably, as 
well as the number of irrigations. Then, too, the practice of harvest- 
ing depends on the available supply of labor. A portion or all of this 
work may be done by the day ot may be contracted by the ton. 
Some of these features are illustrated in Tables XXXIV, XXXV, 
and XXXVI, which show variations in farm practice for 10 repre- 
sentative farms in each district. 
Table XXXIV. — Variations in farm practice on 10 farms at Rocky Ford. 
Operations. 
Farm 
No. 1. 
Farm 
No. 2. 
Farm 
No. 3. 
Farm 
No. 4. 
Farm 
No. 5. 
Farm 
No. 6. 
Farm 
No. 7. 
Farm 
No. 8. 
Farm 
No. 9. 
Farm 
No.10. 
Plowing 
Disking 
Leveling 
Harrow: 
Spike 
Spring 
Rolling 
Ditching: 
Plow 
Shovel 
Planting 
Harrowing beets 
Rolling beets 
Spraying G. H. poison 
Cultivating 
Furrowing 
Sledding 
Irrigating 
Block and thin 
Hoeing: 
First 
Second 
Third 
Topping and loading 
Lifting 
Pitting 
Hauling 
Manuring 
Hauling manure from town. 
Crowning alfalfa 
Man-hours per acre. . . 
Horse-hours per acre . 
Yield per acre (tons) . 
Total cost per acre 
Times 
over 
1 
Times 
over. 
1 
Times 
over. 
1 
1.5 
3 
Times 
over. 
1 
Times 
over. 
Times 
over. 
Times 
over. 
Times 
over. 
1 
1 
2.5 
.... 
Times 
over. 
1 
2 
1 
1.5 
1.4 
2.1 
2.1 
1 
4 
C 
1 
1 
1 
2.5 
C 
C 
1 
C 
1 
6.3 
42 
124 
15 
$65. 78 
7.8 
$58. 62 
bt 
125 
11.5 
$62.00 
57 
129 
12.5 
$68.84 
64 
143 
14 
$62.20 
36 
102 
10.6 
$58. 02 
55 
123 
12 
$62. 48 
57 
150 
11.9 
$63.27 
49 
110 
12 
$61. 52 
Time 
over. 
97 
14 
85S. 71 
a The letter C indicates that this operation was performed on a contract basis. 
6 Under the operation manuring, the fractional numbers indicate the portion of the beet acreage which 
received an application of barnyard manure. For instance, Farm No. 1 in the Rocky Ford district, put 
farm manure on three-tenths of the beet land. On the same farm one-tenth of the beet acreage was located 
on a field that was previously in alfalfa. The initial operation on this tract was crowning. After the beets 
had been planted the operator used the roller on two-tenths of the acreage. 
