. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. s BULLETIN 72G, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. and dry and are in poor condition in the spring unless irrigated thoroughly during the late fall or early winter. The Greeley district lies close to the mountain range and the mean annual temperature there is 47° as compared with 51° at Fort Morgan. The range between extremes is wide, 100° being frequently reached in the summer season. The nights, however, are cool. The summer temperatures for the Rocky Ford district are somewhat higher than those recorded for the other
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. s BULLETIN 72G, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. and dry and are in poor condition in the spring unless irrigated thoroughly during the late fall or early winter. The Greeley district lies close to the mountain range and the mean annual temperature there is 47° as compared with 51° at Fort Morgan. The range between extremes is wide, 100° being frequently reached in the summer season. The nights, however, are cool. The summer temperatures for the Rocky Ford district are somewhat higher than those recorded for the other districts included in this survey. Throughout the entire territory cloudy days are the Fig. 3.—Irrigation canal No. 2 in the Greeley district. High winds are a characteristic feature of the region, and they usually blow with greatest persistence in the spring, when the fields are without vegetation. Thus it is a common occurrence for loose soil to be picked up and carried along with each strong current of air. If the young beet plants are still small and tender when the winds are high, considerable damage may be done to the crop by the moving soil. It is sometimes necessary to reseed large areas, owing to the fact that the plants from the first seeding have been destroyed by a wind storm. Only in some of the older districts has this difficulty been reduced by the growing of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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