. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN COLORADO. 19 did the plowing with a sulky. Other types, such as the 14-inch walking plow and the two-furrow gang, appeared in scattered records. Table VIII.—Plowing data for three Colorado districts. District. Year. Number o£ farms. Acres plowed per farm Crew. Hours per acre. Total Man. Horse. Man. Horse. cost per" acre. Rockv Ford 1914-15 1915 1914-15 - 104 66 183 1 1 1 $ The crews for the respective districts va
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN COLORADO. 19 did the plowing with a sulky. Other types, such as the 14-inch walking plow and the two-furrow gang, appeared in scattered records. Table VIII.—Plowing data for three Colorado districts. District. Year. Number o£ farms. Acres plowed per farm Crew. Hours per acre. Total Man. Horse. Man. Horse. cost per" acre. Rockv Ford 1914-15 1915 1914-15 - 104 66 183 1 1 1 $ The crews for the respective districts varied somewhat in size. Sixty-three per cent of the Rocky Ford growers did this work with a crew consisting of one man and three horses, whereas 27 per cent. FlG. 5.—Breaking alfalfa with an ordinary sulky plow. This type in point of numbers stood second. On the above farm a considerable growth of alfalfa is being incorporated with the soil. plowed with one man and four horses. Fort Morgan reported 22 crews with one man and three horses, 32 crews with one man and four horses, and 12 crews with one man and five horses. In the Greeley district the crews were distributed as follows: Sixty-six crews of one man and three horses; 80 crews of one man and four horses; 32 crews of one man and five horses. There were a few crews of odd sizes. By taking the crews according to size and combining these for the three districts it was found that in 1914 and 1915 154 farmers with 1-3 crews plowed at an average cost of $ per acre; 141 with 1-4 crews at an average cost of $, and 45 with 1-5 crews at an average cost of $ This does not necessarily mean that the large crews were less effi- cient than the crew consisting of one man and three horses. When the. 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
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