SUGAR BEETS IN COLORADO IN 1897. 
W. W. COOKE AND WM. P. HEADDEN. 
During the past few years the interest in the growth of 
sugar beets has largely increased. The Colorado Experi- 
ment Station has for rnany years been encouraging their 
growth in Colorado, but the work of 1897 was conducted on 
a larger scale than any previous year. The United States 
Department of Agriculture at Washington gaye the Station 
five hundred pounds of beet seed^for conducting the , trials, 
and the Station also, received two hundred pounds from A. 
Keilholz, Quedlinburg, Germany, through his United States 
agent, F. G. Zimpel, New York City. The government 
seed was the ,Kleinwanzlebeher variety, imported by the 
Oxnard Beet Sugar Co. and sent to us from Norfolk, Neb- 
raska. The seed from ^ A. Keilholz was the Imperial White. 
variety, , 
With this large amount of seed on hand, it was deter- 
mined to extend the experiments over all the agricultural 
sections of Colorado.. Notices were inserted in the news- 
papers of the State, to, the effect that the station would send 
the seed to those that applied, for it, and who would promise 
to take good care of the crop and report results in the fall. 
Applications were received from and seed sent to six him- 
