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tail swamp but has been reclaimed by tile draining. 
The beets were planted with an ordinary Buckeye grain 
drill, two out of each three holes being stopped up, making 
the rows twenty-four inches apart. They were sown in the 
west field May 21st, cultivated June 9th, 27th, and July 2d, and 
thinned July 14th. Those in the east field were sown May 
f ultivated June 6th, 18th, and 27th, thinned July 3d, and 
gated August 2d. The west field was not irrigated. All 
tne kinds were stored in the root cellar and have kept 
remarkably well. They are being fed to steers, sheep, hogs, 
cows, and horses with satisfactory results, especially in the 
case of the hogs. 
Variety. 
west field: 
Yellow Globe Mangel 
Ked Mange). 
Mette Sugar. 
east field: 
Mette Sugar. 
Lane’s Sugar. 
No. 4 Sugar. 
Total and Average... 
Area of Plat Yield per Plat Yield per Acre 
in Acres. in Pounds. in Tons. 
0.80 
19879 
12.4 
0.60 
19413 
16.2 
0.48 
9069 
9.4 
1.33 
33372 
12.7 
0.58 
21663 
18.8 
0.17 
4360 
12.6 
3.96 108116 13.6 
POTATOES. 
The principal work done with potatoes was the testing 
of the effect of commercial fertilizers on their growth and 
the results are printed in full, not because they show any 
large advantage to have come from the use of the fertilizer 
but because they show in a striking manner what may be 
expected from such work under irrigation. The fertilizers 
used were “tankage’’ and “bone meal,” both made by the 
Armour Packing Company, Kansas City, Missouri. They 
both consist of the refuse from slaughter and rendering 
houses, dried and ground, but not dissolved with acid, so that 
the fertilizing elements exist in a form not soluble in water. 
The tankage is the richer in nitrogen, the bone meal in 
phosphoric acid. Neither contains but a small amount ot 
potash. They constitute the only forms of commercial 
fertilizers that are now for sale in Colorado markets. 
The fertilizer was sown in the drill at the rate of 400 
pounds per acre and intermediate plats left without fertiliza* 
