Show EARLY N N GO r R D it is likely to be profitable ahli spring except for unusually heavy rain talus to ugar sugar beets much earl ier let than ii Is done accor dlug to george Stcyr art for the utah agricultural college experiment state it may be necessary to ir it the then while the land li Is till still rather moist underneath mr stewart sti states stites tes thi this is because of the ground grounds drying out at the th surface for two or three inches in depth before the beets hare have grown to sufficient alzo ze to pe pene ne rate irate in to deep soll oil when this take takes place there Is i a Is laer er on top that ia is completely devoid of soil oil moisture which would not bo be troublesome ciomo if the beet beets reached well ell below it unfortunately it happens too often tint that this drying tain place before the be beets have briwn beyond the tle d arld iid i id area aheu this condition docs arlie arise it li is rier ary pry to irrigate the surface in ardt to net et it sufficiently to permit the betts to continue growing usual ly y only one such irrigation ii Is nc no ry became berche the time for a second ip sp licatina hai has tome around the beet root roots lune haie gone dy dv n i tome some dis di tance into the damp oil I 1 I 1 this fint first irrigation shout I 1 not bo be a 9 heavy only enough water ater ii is necessary to thoroughly moisten the dry layer it is sometimes advocated that only each alternate pace have a furrow io in it it hai has been becil found better at the ex perin int rAt station atlon it however ho to make rather mall small furrows fur and place these close to the sugar ugar beets beete on one aide side of the rather than tring to ir it brigate in the middle when the for fur row ia is made ia in tha middle of the space between the two rows rather heavy applications are necessary in order to raue cause the water to oak soak over the bati there Is i an old idea preva prevalent leat in much of the tate state which DAYS thit that crop crops hould net not be irrigated until it ii Is ab so lutell necessary thi this however la Is not true on account of the fact that ahe plants wilt very eay easy end and begin to uffer suffer at once for rater there haa has been nothing by way of irrigation that has aas barn bc n so 10 harmful as delaying the first application until the crops differ suffer seriously eri many of the beets die from lack of moisture and many are weakened weak enid that disc asce are able to take bold beld of them one of the most noticeable things about our experimental work ork on beets pas lias been that beets properly and properly irrigate a arc are injured by disease to only 1 u very alight slight extent whereas leets cots that lack both fertility and moisture are sometimes attacked to sn in extent of practically per cent tent 1 in 1919 when there was sueh a gen era eral attack of Pho phoma mall root rot I 1 A t was observed d that on poor land and on late irrigated beets the injury was wits about twice as great and in some cases five times as great as on land that had iad been properly cared rated for in these two respects ettL this year has bus begun almost exactly like lile 1919 people who visited the experiment farm in logan in ha 1919 and in other cars ears were without exception struck by the great resistance to disease of beets that had been properly and irrigated billere here is one of the opportunities for ft grower of slnar beets to stop a leak I 1 in his income on the sugar beet 3 yields ields are only about one half of what they should be and ii one of it tie e e uv things to do to in crease his hi yield another leak occurs during thinning this be the subject of another article appear ib it ais lis paper shortly |