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Show BEET FARMER AVOIDS "STOOP" AND SAVES $4.50 AN ACRE Suooessful experimental tests of mechanical thin-' ning ot sr.;rar beets were reported some time ajr0 by! t.e Knv:r.i et Agricultural Chemistry and Endneer-ir.p Endneer-ir.p Now t:-.e Bureau reports results of the first com-r.-.crcuu tvuu of its method. A farmer in southern Colorado nlanted his beet-vui; beet-vui; to.e r.ew single-seed-ball planter and thinned toe entire crop with a mechanical thinner, using no for- Er:eers of the bureau found the s.and ot beets practically perfect: the farm workers ro.er tJed ;4.o0 an acre on his whole crop. |