Show AVOID FLOODING YOUNG SUGAR BEETS early in tho the season when the beets are small hooding flooding Is likely to damage thom seriously especially during the first and second second irrigations professor george stewart of tile the utah agricultural experiment station on urges that considerable precaution bei taken to see that water Is kept hept is the furrows and not allowed 0 come coma in direct contact with the beets themselves flooding has two very dangerous effects in the first place it causes the ground to bake and become so hard that the young beets are likely to lie be very much retarded in the second place flooding encourages the growth of weeds and also hinders cultivation dud to the baking that follows sometimes there is a third type of injury that may result when the sun is shining brightly bright Fy on water that is in direct contact with young beets the reflection sometimes becomes so strong that it injures the tender lender tissues As soon as the beet gets older it cevelo develops P s a corky layer on the outside which is not injured by tho the reflection of the sun later latec tho the leaves cover the ground and prevent the sun from st the water directly not only with the sugar beets but wl with th all young plants there is this danger although damage occurs only occasionally there is no single thing about the irrigation of sugar beets that should be ba avoided with greater care than flooding of course the lack of enough wasef to keep the crop croly growing is more mora serious but the flooding danger should not be lost sight of |