. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 42 BULLETIN 726, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. trash. Only a few growers, however, reported on this operation. This work in a number of cases was included with the lifting of the crop, and on other farms the contract laborer was required to do this work with a garden rake as a part of his contract labor. The number of records obtained was not large enough to warrant any definite conclusions with reference to the time consumed or the cost per acre. A span of horses with a V-shaped leveler can prepare sufficient space
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 42 BULLETIN 726, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. trash. Only a few growers, however, reported on this operation. This work in a number of cases was included with the lifting of the crop, and on other farms the contract laborer was required to do this work with a garden rake as a part of his contract labor. The number of records obtained was not large enough to warrant any definite conclusions with reference to the time consumed or the cost per acre. A span of horses with a V-shaped leveler can prepare sufficient space for several rows of beets in a short time (fig. 24). HAULING. It has been pointed out that hauling is done 'at the same time as the hfting and topping. Ninety-six per cent of the growers included in this investigation gave information on hauling; the remainder of. g8§ â jr. A'/<V* «* Fig. âLoading sugar beets with fork from small piles in field. these growers hired hauling done by contract. Heavy wagons were used, equipped with strong, well-built beet boxes of special type (figs. 25 and 26). The loading was done with forks or by hand. Rain occasionally leaves the ground heavy and'makes it necessary to use an extra team. In cases in which the crop was delivered directly to the cars at the loading station, no hand labor was required. The unloading at the beet dump was done mechanically (figs. 27 and 28). In the Rocky Ford district 22 growers marketed the beets with a crew of one man and two horses, while 67 growers utilized a 1-4 crew. In the Fort Morgan area 43 operators used a crew consisting of one man and two horses, while 13 growers hauled with a crew of one man and Jour horses. The Greeley area, which furnished. 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 Agric
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