Bulletin 57. 
The results are given below. 
DISTANCE BETWEEN ROWS. 
Name 
Place 
WEIGHT, CHOP, 
Rows 24 inches 
apart 
TONS PER ACRE. 
Rows 27 and 11 
inches apart 
M. D, Parmenter.... . 
Lamar. 
30.9 
40.8 
C. H. Miller. 
Antlers. 
10.2 
13.8 
TT. T. Gravestock. 
Canon City. 
25.1 
26.4 
O. TT. Gravestock. 
O 
14.2 
14.3 
J. M. Mortimer. 
% » 
13.6 
24.8 
A (Tam May. 
Debeque . 
27.6 
85.8 
Martin Nelson. 
Greeley. 
25.5 
31.2 
T. W. Clapper . 
Loveland. 
15.1 
13.6 
F. Niemeyer. 
Evans. 
54.2 
66.0 
T). G. Edgerton. 
Carbondale. 
9.8 
13.2 
Arkansas Valley Substation. 
Rocky Ford. 
16.8 
17.8 
Agricultural College. 
Fort Collins. 
19.8 
22.1 
Average. 
21.9 
•26.71 
The results are strongly in favor of the twenty-seven 
and eleven inch rows. It is not claimed that this method 
will give a larger yield per acre than all eighteen inch 
rows, but it is believed that it will give just as large a yield 
and can be profitably used on ground where it would be very 
difficult to use the eighteen inch row. The twenty-seven 
inch row is so wide that it allows an abundance of space to 
put in a big furrowing plow, use a good head of water and 
run a given stream a long distance—in other words, do a 
good thorough job of irrigating. 
3. IRRIGATING THE SEED. 
This is the most troublesome problem before the Colo¬ 
rado sugar beet raiser at the present time. If all seasons 
were the same in the rainfall, the problem would soon be 
solved. The years 1894 and 1900 show the possible ex¬ 
tremes in this matter. In 1894 wheat that was sown the 
fall before did not germinate until the ground was irrigated 
the last week in May, and yet, wheat requires much less 
moisture to germinate than beet seed. In 1900 the month 
of April was as wet out here in the arid region as it usually 
is along the Atlantic or Gulf coasts. The ground was too 
