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Bulletin 58 . 
§ 3. Daring the season of 1890, Pres. Ingersoll, who was the 
Director of the Station, and Dr. O’Brine, Professor of Chemistry, 
joined in a study of the general condition and outlook for the beet 
sugar industry; while the Horticultural and Chemical Departments 
cooperated in further study of the sugar beet. The specific subjects 
with which they experimented during this season being a study of 
the effect of the distance between the beets in the row upon the 
amount of sugar contained in the beets, and of the relation between 
the size of the beet and its sugar content. 
§ 4. A number of persons had, by this time, become 
sufficiently interested in the subject to grow sugar beets and send 
them to the Station for analysis. The descriptions of the samples, 
as received at the laboratory, were very imperfect, as was to be 
expected, but the results obtained fully justified the conclusion of 
Bulletin 14, which I can do no better than to quote: 
We believe that it has been established that the soil and climate of Colo¬ 
rado are favorable to the production of sugar beets, and that they can be 
successfully and profitably raised to the advantage, both of the farmer and 
manufacturer. 
§ 5. Experiments were continued during the years 1891 and 
1892, not only by the Station at Fort Collins, but also at the 
Substations in the San Luis Valley, Arkansas Valle} r and the 
Divide, also by individuals in the Arkansas Valley and in the 
neighborhood of Fort Collins. The chief importance seems to have 
been attached to the endeavor to determine how much irrigation is 
required to produce the best results, and to notice the effects of both 
too little and too much irrigation upon the crop, and the percentage 
of sugar in the beet. The effect of the distance between the beets 
in the row was also studied, but was subordinated to the questions 
of irrigation and cultivation. The results obtained at the Arkansas 
Valley Substation at Rocky Ford during these years, 1890 to 1892, 
were published in Bulletin 21, October, 1892. The rest of the 
results were not published until March, 1897, in Bulletin 36, 
which contains a succinct statement of the results recorded up to 
that date; some of which, about one third, had not been published 
in any previous bulletin. 
§ 6. In the spring of 1897 the public seemed sufficiently 
interested to justify the Station in again taking up the subject, and 
having received quantities of seed from the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture at Washington, and also from other sources, it was distributed 
to persons in different sections of the State, together with explicit 
instructions how to plant, to cultivate, and especially how to 
harvest the samples for analysis. The results obtained were, more 
satisfactory data concerning the time of planting, cultivation and 
harvesting of the crop. In addition to this, experiments were made 
at a greatly increased number of localities throughout the State. In 
