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The beet seed was obtained principally from the United States 
Department of Agriculture, but some, also, from the Oxnard Sugar 
■Co., of Grand Island, Nebraska, through the efforts of the officials of 
the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf Railroad ; some from the sugar 
factory at Rome, N. Y., through the efforts of Mr. M. B. Colt, of 
Alamosa, and when all these sources of supply failed, the Denver 
Ohamber of Commerce bought, in open market, enough seed to sup¬ 
ply the remainder of the requests. In all, about four thousand 
pounds of seed were distributed to two thousand three hundred 
persons. In each case the seed was delivered free of charge to the 
person making the tests. 
All the analyses on which this bulletin is founded were made 
the Chemical Section of the College at Fort Collins. There 
were eight hundred and twelve samples analyzed at Fort Collins. 
Through the courtesy of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 
the franking privilege was given to the Station for the sugar beet 
work, and all the seed and several thousand pounds of the beets for 
analysis were sent through the mail postage free. In addition the 
Tailroads of the State, particularly the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf, 
Denver & Rio Grande, and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, took a 
lively interest in the experiments and furnished transportation that 
materially facilitated the work. 
experiments at fort COIiIilNS AND Rocky ford 
on METHODS OF RAISING SUGAR BEETS. 
These tests can be grouped under the following headings: 
1. Different dates of planting. 
2. Planting on freshly plowed ground as compared with 
aground plowed a few days before planting. 
3. Seed irrigated at planting as compared with that not 
irrigated. 
4. Soaking seed before planting. 
5. Sowing at the bottom of a three-inch furrow. 
6. Different depths of planting. 
7. Transplanting. 
8. Different distances of thinning. 
9. Different dates of thinning. 
10. Variety tests. 
11. Number of irrigations. 
