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BULLETIN 917, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table III. — Distribution of labor per acre required to produce the principal crops 
grown in the Greeley, Fort Morgan, and Rocky Ford districts of Colorado — Contd. ■ 
District and operation. 
Sugar beets, 
2,455 acres. 
Alfalfa, 1,233 
acres. 
Oats, 144 
acres. 
Barley, 262 
acres. 
Wheat, 102 
acres. 
Man. 
Horse. 
Man. 
Horse. 
Man. 
Horse. 
Man. 
Horse. 
Man. 
Horse. 
Fort Morgan district: 
5.1 
8.4 
1.0 
5.4 
9.0 
c4.1 
12.3 
10.5 
35.5 
2.1 
11.3 
1.4 
12. 1 
30.1 
0.9 
5.7 
1.0 
2.1 
21.3 
3.8 
1.1 
4.9 
1.0 
3.4 
17.6 
3.3 
1.1 
4.7 
1.0 
1 9 
16.7 
Planting 
3.9 
cO.l 
8.2 
18.0 
c0. 4 
1.1 
26.8 
5.6 
8.2 
1.4 
9.7 

5.6 
8.8 
1.2 
1.9 
10.9 
2.3 
5.9 
10.8 
1.7 
1.5 
12.9 
Marketing 
3.3 
Total 
45.3 
103.0 
26.3 
28.3 
21.4 
38.3 
22.6 
39.4 
25.2 
40.2 
District and operation. 
Sugar 
beets, 
2,429 
acres. 
Beans, 179 
acres. 
Canta- 
loupes, 
301 
acres. 
Alfalfa, 
915 acres. 
Oats, 75 
acres. 
Wheat, 
82 acres. 
Cucumber 
seed, 252 
acres. 
i 
6 
O 
i 
1 
a 
1 
1 
i 
o 
w 
I 
1 
A 
4.0 
6.9 
1.0 
o 
w 
5.3 
24.6 
3.3 
03 
1.8 
9.7 
1.0 
33.0 
11.2 
37.0 
.8 
o 
w 
Rocky Ford district: 
Manuring 
6.5 
10.1 
1.1 
9.4 
9.8 
d5.5 
13. & 
12.8 
35.5 
2.3 
18.2 
1.4 
18 4 
44.1 
2.6 
9.5 
1.3 
17.7 
14.8 
26.3 
1.8 
6.5 
33.6 
2.2 
12.8 
.2 
9.1 
3.6 
0.3 
12.2 
4.9 
52.1 
16.0 
(d) 
14.9 
3.3 
0.5 
47.0 
1.8 
23.3 
.7 
-28." 7 
3.7 
0.4 
1.6 
2.6 
7.0 
1.0 
3.0 
25.5 
3.1 
2.1 
Preparation of the 
seed bed 
37.7 
Planting 
2.1 
14.7 
■ Irrigation 
7.1 
17.4 
1.0 
1.1 
21.8 
1.7 
10.6 
11.3 
.1 
1.1 
10.8 
.1 
9.1 
8.8 
2.7 
1.9 
10.3 
8.0 
.8 
Harvesting 
22.9 
1.7 
Total. ; 
56.0 
132.7 
74.0 
68.0 
103.7 
105.7 
25.9 
26.2 
32.6 
43.6 
32.5 
53.4 
94.5 
82.0 
c Contract hand labor on beets is not included. 
d Contract hand labor on beets and picking and packing of cantaloupes are not included. 
e Miscellaneous includes work upon a building, a packing shed, laying roads, and hauling empty crates 
from the depot. 
PREPARATION OF THE SEED BED. 
The preparation of the seed bed embraces numerous distinct opera- 
tions, beginning with the removal of trash from the land and includ- 
ing disking, plowing, rolling, spike-tooth and spring-tooth harrowing, 
crowning of alfalfa, scraping, and leveling. 
REMOVING TRASH. 
Comparatively few farmers practiced removing trash from the land. 
A few in the Greeley and Fort Morgan districts raked and burned 
potato vines from the land in preparing it for seed. Some growers 
at Rocky Ford raked and removed cantaloupe and cucumber vines. 
In most cases these vines were disked or plowed under. On the 
potato land the digging of the crop served as a sort of fall plowing, 
and the next crop was in some cases planted without plowing or disk- 
ing the land. Usually, the potato vines would interfere so much 
with harrowing or leveling that it was necessary to remove them. 
Most farmers preferred to incorporate vegetable matter with the soil 
rather than to rake it off and burn it. Where trash was to be removed 
