Show BEETS VERY HARD ON SOIL Western Farmers Fearful Lest Crop Will Rob Land and Make It Worthless for Any Other It Is reported that farmers In the west are fearful lest the sugar beet will rob the soil soU and make make t t worthless worthless worthless worth worth- less for any other crop A c Colorado correspondent says The be beet t is so vigorous a grower that It extracts the elements from the soil for lor a lo long g dis tance It is therefore a serious serious lem lern with farmers especially osdin in the Arkansas Valley whether whether they they can afford to plant beets on cantaloupe cantaloupe cantal cantal- ground The raising of beets has not been continued long Enough in thi this country to determine determine the length of of time required to restore restore the soil after rai raising one or or more mo-e more c crops pI of beets on on the same land In California Cal Gal and other countries where beets have been raised for several years the land will grow nothing but beans There Is no doubt that beets raised continuously on the same soil soU without proper manure will wUl exhaust it just j justas as corn or wheat or any other crop will wUl exhaust the soil under similar conditions But Dut if farmers will put back Into the soil the elements which the beet took from Prom it they will be all right Raise clover r alfalfa soy beans and cowpeas on your beet land once every three ye years rs at least least two two would be better better and and nd you will wUl find your soil solI will respond as well as it ever did |