Seed planted with what implement 
Seed planted how deep 
Width between rows 
Was all the seed sent used? 
How much land was planted? 
Date beets began to show above ground 
Date of each cultivation 
How cultivated 
Date of thinning 
Distance between plants after thinning 
Is the stand thick or thin? 
Date of each irrigation 
(Signed) Name 
Postoffice 
Note. — Fill out the blank the first of August and send 
by mail to 
The State Agricultural College, 
Fort Collins, Colorado. 
The analyses of the beets will be made at Fort Cohins. 
Instructions for taking and sending samples will be sent out 
next fall. No beets will be analyzed unless accompanied 
by the full history of the planting, cultivation and harvest- 
ing of the crop. 
It is desired that two samples of the crops be taken, 
one early in October and the other about the first of Nov- 
ember. No samples will be analyzed after the middle of 
November. 
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE GROWING OF* SUGAR BEETS. 
Select the best land on the farm. A rather heavy loam 
produces the best crops. void light, sandy soils, poorly 
drained soils, heavy clay soils and alkali soils. Do not plant 
on newly broken ground unless it can be plowed very deep. 
Never plant beets on alfalfa sod. Beets do best after 
corn or potatoes. The freer the land is from weeds the 
easier and cheaper will the crop be raised. On land that 
has been manured just before plowing, it is difficult to get a 
good stand of beets, but if the choice has to lie between poor 
land and rich land recently manured, always take the rich 
land. 
