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Show I ANOTHER FARMER Gives his ideas on beei t, cultivation. . MR. SAMUEL TAYLOR I Tells what lie thinks of thii industry; ' V My belief is that there is no comjmri-Hon comjmri-Hon between this erop aifd tiie Junn products that we havefbcen inUhb tiabit i of raising in this part' of thb country, tlmt is in the matter of net proceeds from ho amount of land tilled. A man can with a moderate sized, orevon small farm make a good living in producing this crop, whereas in raising grain he cannot. The farmer is getting little enough for his crop. This one great 'disadvantage he has, that ho is never rfiure of his crop. He does not know whether it will bo taken or not. If the company would bo willing to take the beets, even if they fell a little below the required standard, at a reduced figure it would bo a great deal safer for the . - " iarmer. I am of the eame opinion as Mr. Woodhouse. Take sandy loam nnd if " t ' . you can got water enough it is better, (or , , . you stand a bcttershowbfgettingacrop but in case of scarcity of water clayey f"' . land is the best. You can get a nicer ''- 3a$El '" ' stand of beets in sand land than you iff TrfSSkti. , caa.fr the clayey soil. The beets are, I;WiW('SSaner1 longer and go 'down better. M I prefer to do my p'owing in the fall i if I possibly can. This is not eo im- I portant with sandy loam, but in case 1 ' the land-is weedy it is better on any kind I of ground as you stand a better chance 1 ' ' of killing the weeds in the fall than in 9 ' tho spring, ffi ',' '- I do not believe it is good to irrigate W 1 WW K ' too soon. Let your beets get up and get K ' " them thinned, letting them have a M protty good start. When tho lower m leaves begin to wilt and tho tops turn a dark green the i water should be first H '' (' applied. Of course when you start you m ' ' must keep it up. Three or four water-n water-n ings will mako a good crop of beets. H jj Four are better than three, and if you m ' tfntief can get four good irrigations on a ciop 'ofbotsl am satisfied they will mature 1 and make a good crop. With respect to 1 v j J C' Hho last watering; one year we wore told 1 . ( ' " to stop watering too early and we lost a I -- gt many boots by it. I would water I Cj ",. tho last time about the last of August, if I ii" watored up to this date the beets will bo a alright. 1 Of course, as yet it is art experiment. I Wo can toll bettor when wo take them I it out' ut ,s ,ny P'nion tnftt the . '?'" ' farmers can store their beets and tho factory be kopt running up to tho last of March. You hav6 to Btoro them in such a way that they do not grow. As soon as a beet begines to shoot out leaven it loses its sugar. My opinion is, that tako alkali land . get it worked into shape and it is the i iW vory best kind of land for beets, You ! may loose the first yield, but when you ;'V succeed in getting it to raiso beets it is unexcelled for this crop. Now tho sugar company claims that tho land near tho :f ' factory pioducea tho best beets that they raise, J I should prepare it just tho same as nny other kind of land . Do tho plowing ' , in the fall and gotonto'it just as soon as " . - possiblo in thespring. There is ono thing about it, you must water the beets on this kind of land as that washes off the alkali. The trouble has been with wine men in tilling this kind of land thntlHoy have not watered it. The hind'being miost they have concluded that water was not neceesary, and as a result the beets have continued to grow and have not ripened. The water eeeins in some way to make them ripen. , If a man can lie should put n light coat on every year. 1 think euriaee manuring is the best, if line manure is used. What I mean by this is to liret plow the land then apply ille manure and harrow It thoroughly. I rim satis, lied that a ian will get better results ii this way than if he plows tho manure under, because 1 have tried it. I, like Mr. Woodhouse, feel that the farmer is placed at a very great disadvantage, disad-vantage, becaube he never knows what kind of beets he raiees. Ho knows that tho crop reaches the lequired standard or his beets would not be taken, and that is the extent of his knowledge. I think if the company would tell the fai mers just what they were doing they would vio with each other in producing the b,eht quality of beets. 9 |