ADDITIONAL MATERIAL ON RALPH L. PARI'RIOOE.
Ralph L. Partridge, retiring as manager
ot
the Fort Collins factory of The Great Western Sugar Company, was born at Fort Collins, the son of Rev. and Mrs. John W. Partridge. He attended elementary schools at Fort Collins, took the "short course" at Colorado A & Mand studied engineering three years at the Uni-versity of Nebraska. He was then engaged by various irrigation companies in no~hern Colorado following which he entered Great Western service in 1916 on the company fann. at Fort Collins. He was subsequently put in charge o:t company farms at Littleton, Eaton, again at Fort Collins and Windsor. He became factory and farm manager at Windsor in 1935 and was transferred to Fort Collins asfactory manager in 1944.
Company officials speak of Mr. Partridge as one
ot
their most outstanding authorities on farm management. The Windsor farm, under his direction, became in recent years the testing ground for the developnents in mechanical harvesting and thinning of sugar beets which now have become standard practice. Here also were carried on practical livestock feeding operations demonstrating the efficient use of sugar beet byproducts combined with locally grown livestock feeds.Upon his retirement Mr. Partridge will open a farm management office in Fort Collins to serve landowners and estates in Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont and adjacent ·areas.
Mr. and Mrs. Partridge are the parents of Ralph L. Partridge, Jr., agricul-tural editor of The Denver Post, and two daughters, Alice Eleanor, wife of
Dr.
Ivan Jackson, veterinarian, Twin Falls, Idaho, and Marjorie Ruth, wife of Lieut. (j.g.) Robert R. McArthur, Norfolk, Va. In Fort Collins Mr. Partridge is a Mason, a Rotarian and member of the Elks Lodge and he is former president of the Lions Club at Windsor.lff'fl'
