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AVERAGE RESULTS BY COUNTIES. 
County. 
Date of 
harvet t- 
ing of 
crop. 
Gross 
weight 
of 
trim’ed 
beets 
per 
acre. 
Tons. 
Sugar 
in 
beet. 
Purity. 
Pure 
sugar 
per 
acre. 
Lbs. 
Avail- 
i lable 
sugar 
per 
acre. 
Lbs. 
Fac- 
tory 
value 
per 
acre. 
Conejos 
Oct. 21 
19.53 
15.67 
80.0 
46.89 
3741 
$ 79.11 
Costilla •. 
“ 20 
14.05 
15.42 
84.3 
30.93 
2607 
56.92 
Delta 
“ 23 
22.54 
14.74 
80.0 
53.01 
4241 
86 23 
Fremont 
“ 23 
23.36 
16.87 
84.1 
6226 
5236 
99.75 
Garfield 
“ 21 
18.96 
16.12 
84.8 
4901 
4155 
76.98 
Larimer 
“ 28 
25.32 
15.52 
80.2 
6278 
5023 
102.56 
Logan 
Sept. 27 
17.80 
14.09 
77.3 
4013 
3102 
64.00 
Mesa 
Nov. 2 
20.90 
15.22 
77.9 
5114 
3984 
79.90 
Otero 
Oct. 26 
22.59 
15.14 
79.8 
5474 
4374 
86.40 
Weld 
Oct. 23 
13.98 
15.89 
79.8 
3562 
2850 
56.70 
Average 
Oct. 22 
19.90 
15.47 
80.8 
4950 
4000 
$ 76.07 
In considering the foregoing tables, one is struck at once with 
the high average excellence of tlie sugar beets of Colorado as re- 
gards both quantity and quality. In the districts of the United 
States, where beets are raised for factories, 12 per cent of sugar and 
78 purity are considered standards, and one who has raised ten to 
thirteen tons of beets to the acre is thought to have done well. A 
fair estimate of the cost of raising sugar beets is $30 per acre, while 
the above table gives $76.07 as the average factory value for the 
whole state. The difference of $46.07 profit per acre will compare 
well with any other kind of farming practiced in Colorado, not 
even excepting the famed cantaloupes of the Arkansas valley, the 
orchards of the western slope, or the lambs of the northern feeding 
districts. 
In concluding this portion of the subject, it is fitting that grate- 
ful appreciation should be expressed of the aid that the Denver 
Chamber of Commerce has given in this work. The above tables 
present the largest amount of the most reliable reports that have 
ever been collected concerning Colorado sugar beets, and their col- 
lection was made possible, only through the generosity and public 
spirit shown in offering the sugar beet prizes.^ 
