GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN COLORADO. 59 
A review of these tables will show that some of the operations were 
not common to all farms. This was particularly true of such work as 
disking, harrowing with a spring tooth, rolling the land prior to plant- 
ing, sledding out, and pitting sugar beets. Such major field opera- 
tions as plowing, harrowing with a spike tooth, leveling, planting, 
cultivating, furrowing out, the handwork, lifting and hauling, are 
common to practically all farms. There may be a slight variation in 
the number of times each operation is performed. 
Keferring to the Rocky Ford summary table, it will be seen that a 
few farmers harrowed twice with the spike tooth, that others went 
over their fields three or four times with this implement, and that in 
one case the ground was harrowed seven times. When extra work 
is done, and this applies to several operations on the same farm, it 
will have a tendency to give a man and horse labor requirement 
somewhat above the average. 
On a few farms it was necessary to do some replanting. If two- 
tenths of the field had to be reseeded, then the number of times over 
is indicated by 1.2. It will be noted that a small amount of work 
in addition to the hand labor, such as lifting and hauling, was done 
on a contract basis. 
