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RECOBDS OF ANALYSES. 
PLANTING. 
Name 
Place 
First 
Second 
Third 
Fourth 
Sugar 
in beet 
Parity 
Sugar 
in beet 
Purity 
Sugar 
in beet 
Purity 
. 
Sugar 
in beet 
Purity 
M. T). Parmenter . 
Lamar . 
11.2 
75.7 
14.0 
79.9 
10.5 
71.9 
13.1 
76.7 
C H. Miller .... 
Antlers. 
14.5 
79.3 
14.1 
77.9 
15.8 
82.2 
H. T. Gravestock. 
Canon City.... 
17.5 
84.0 
20.3 
88.4 
19.6 
86.9 
20.5 
90.8 
C. H. Gravestock . 
it 
19.4 
88.3 
18.6 
89.1 
19.5 
90.3 
17.1 
85.3 
.T . M . 1\1 orti m er 
• « 
1(5.3 
84.3 
17.9 
85.1 
Adam May . 
Debeque . 
12.4 
76.5 
14.3 
82.9 
13.6 
77.7 
13.6 
78.6 
Martin Nelson 
Greeley . 
17.0 
84.0 
15.1 
83.3 
16.7 
85.9 
16.2 
86.7 
.T. W (dapper 
Loveland . 
14.2 
84.2 
16.0 
82.8 
16.3 
85.1 
13.6 
76.5 
F. Niemejer . 
Evans . 
13.8 
81.0 
14 2 
83.7 
14.3 
78.9 
16.6 
85.8 
D. G. Edgerton. 
Carbondale.... 
14.7 
83.3 
15.1 
85.0 
15.2 
86.5 
14.1 
84.1 
Average. 
15.2 
82.1 
15.96 
83.8 
15.7 
82.4 
15.6 
80.6 
It will be noticed that there is scarcely any difference 
in the average analysis of the crops from the different 
plantings. 
The second planting averages a tride the best in both 
sugar and purity, but not anywhere near enough to offset the 
much larger yield of the earlier planting. 
It can be said that taking into account all the factors of 
the problem there is a decided advantage in early planting; 
it gives a better stand, produces a larger crop and this crop 
is of good quality in sugar and purity. 
For the sake of convenience in thinning the beets it is 
not advisable to plant all the crop at one time. The best 
way is to plant a third of the ground as early as possible, as 
early as one can be sure of water to irrigate up the seed if 
necessary and as soon as it seems warm enough to germinate 
the seed. Then put in the second third as soon as the first 
planting appears above the ground and the last within the 
next ten days. 
2. DISTANCE BETWEEN ROWS. 
Where sugar beets are raised by the natural rainfall it 
is customary to plant the rows as close together as it is 
possible to get a horse through them to cultivate. The 
present writer has seen a hundred acre field of beets in 
