Farm Notes. 
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the subsoiled 2128 pounds, being a difference of 12 per cent 
in favor of the subsoiled. 
The average of the whole ten tests is 18 per cent gain 
in weight of the crop as the result of subsoiling. 
B—SUGAR BEETS IN COLORADO IN 1899. 
The results of the experiments with sugar beets in 1897 
and 1898 have already been published in former bulletins of 
this Station. In 1899 the work was not conducted on so 
large a scale. It was considered that the results of 1898 
showed beyond a shadow of a doubt that there were large 
areas in Colorado that were adapted to the raising of large 
crops of excellent beets for factory use and that therefore 
there was no further need of making general distributions 
of seed for testing this point. 
The questions to be considered hereafter are the more 
special points of how to handle the crop to get the best re¬ 
sults. The season of 1899 was devoted to the study of ques¬ 
tions concerning the proper time to plant, the best distance 
between the rows and whether or not the seed should be 
irrigated at the time of planting. With regard to the first, 
the results are decisive and that question may be considered 
as settled. The second was decided, so far as the test went, 
but the problem is yet left of still closer distances. The 
third problem was not solved and it remains as one of the 
two large problems yet to be attacked in Colorado. The 
solving of either would mean a gain of more money each 
year to Colorado than the total received from the govern¬ 
ment for carrying on experimental work. The first problem, 
broadly stated, is: How shall the irrigation water be 
handled to obtain a full stand of beets. The second prob¬ 
lem is at the other end of the season: What can be done to 
make the beets ripen thoroughly? 
I. TIME OF PLANTING. 
Seed was sent to several parties representing the princi¬ 
pal beet growing sections of the State with the request that 
they make four plantings conforming as nearly as convenient 
to the dates April 15, Mav i, May 15 and June 1. The work 
was done on small plots so as to eliminate so far as possible 
differences of soil and irrigation and to allow the work to be 
done with great care. The returns show that the stand of 
beets was almost perfect in every case and that the crops 
were large in quantity and of good quality. 
The first table gives the facts concerning the planting 
