29 — 
Variety. 
Crop per 
acre 
Tons. 
Sugar in 
beet. 
Parity. 
Utah Klein wanzlebener 
105.5 
8.88 
64.6 
Original Kleinwanzlebener 
123.4 
8.93 
66.3 
Vilmorin 
90.2 
9.65 
67.9 
Mangold \ 
81.1 
9.11 
65.5 
Eddy Kleinwanzlebener 
98.5 
10.36 
69.5 
Elite Kleinwanzlebener 
102.2 
10.45 
70.6 
Average 
100.1 
9.56 
67.4 
This is over 19,000 pounds of sugar per acre. 
A SHIPMENT OF SUSAN BEETS TO GUANO ISEAND, 
HEBUASM. 
As will be given more in detail later, the Business Men’s Asso- 
ciation, of Loveland, Colorado, in connection with the Denver 
Chamber of Commerce, offered prizes for the best crops of sugar beets 
raised in the vicinity of Loveland. The officials of the Union 
Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railroad considered that this would be a 
good opportunity to test the beets of northern Colorado on a com- 
mercial scale. They obtained several hundred pounds of beet seed 
from the Oxnard Sugar Company, of Grand Island, Nebraska, and 
distributed this to the farmers of Loveland and vicinity, free of 
charge, on condition that the growers ship their beets to Grand 
Island. Instructions in regard to the methods of growing beets 
were sent to each one, by the College ; the present writer visited a 
good many of the farms during the growing season and took notes 
on the crop and the care it had received, and as the season advanced 
he took samples for analysis at various times until it was evident 
that the crops were ripe enough to ship. 
The changes of the crop in the process of ripening and the date 
when the crop was ready for harvesting, can be gathered from the 
following samples that were among those taken at Loveland : 
