Show Desirable To ToP P ant nt Sugar Beets Early on Finn Seed Beds As it is now a preaching time when sugar beets ar are arc to be planted it is important for fa mers to have in mind the great importance nee nce of seeding early and of seeding a firm seed beds ac- ac according according ac according cording to Prof sor George Georgo Stewart A Agronomist Agricultural Ex- Ex Experiment Experiment Ex Experiment station We Vc have grea greally ly changed our gen gen- general gen general en- en eral idea as to the tae Lime time of seeding su- su sugar su gir beets daring durin the gar last dozen oz n years ears or r so Beets Deets us 1 to be planted only after afler the season had warmed v up pret- pret pret ty pretty well jin and l co cp time tinie after the grain gram crop were seeded It is now by sugar companies ies and agriculturists frequently u ged by their I and pr 1 erly so that beets should be sown just about as early as is possible Of course there is some small dan clan r l of risk in case th the beets should gc go well started and a avery avery avery very severe fro t should follow Or Or- Or din Ordinarily ril it is c e safe and wise to plant beets as oon eon as spring seems to have opened In various s se ions of the country it has been fou fow I that beets planted early yield any here ere from five to twenty per cent greater returns and sometimes even lore ore than that than do b beets planter tel I later in the make Sometimes n willm will m difference of se ral tons should the season turn off lot ot of and dry rather earl early Another point of considerable im- im importance im- im importance im importance is that eed beds for fur sugar Bug beets need to be ather firm By this is meant not th t these seed beds should be hard nd crusted on top but that there hould be about an inch aninch or so of r r ir her mellow surface soil and that the seed beds should beso beso be so thoroughly pa pai ed cd by means of har harrows harrows harrows rows and drags hat horses walking on the land will leave distinct hoof prints and i it t sink into any appreciable appreciable ap- ap extent A number of ars ago the United States department of agriculture ag made madea a careful at Lehi Garland Utah and Idaho Falls aIls Idaho It was wa found that nearly fifty per cent of the stand of beets be beats ts was lost during the entire year ear aind nd d of this nineteen per cent was to los losi due to poor seed seedbeds seedbeds beds and improper seeding Many of othe the beets were s sown wn on lands that were so loose that th l the surface soil dried out before the beets could ger- ger germinate germinate germinate minate andas and as result a-result a j large misses in the rows occurred with witha a tl consequent conse conse- conse consequent quent reduction The occasion occasional al missing of a single ingle Ingle beet is not a serious matter but but if the miss is for several feet or sometimes for two or 01 three rods as frequently happens due poor bed then this loss is not made up by increased size of adjacent ad- ad adjacent ad adjacent jacent iThe beets j i The serious of all in th the seed beds was found to be in such as alfalfa land that had been freshly broken up up and had not been worked over sufficiently to pack the theland land It is well wll known that when al al- al alfalfa alfalfa falfa alfalfa land is s sufficiently prepared beets g give e highest highes yields on such land but there risk has lins become so great that it is now d med advisable as a general rule no not to attempt to tl seed beets after a crop as alfalfa Very coarse far i manure may also leave the land dl- dl n such a condition The chief ty with such a con con- condition condition condition is poor germination g go and subsequent subsequent subsequent quent suffering i from rom rom moisture even eyen when dose take place By way of su sui mary then it should be said that ca in the pre preparation pre pre- preparation preparation of the cod ced bed often causes very great loss This can be bl over over- overcome overcome overcome come seedbed by packing of the seed bed and seed seeding in early Farmers are arc butto therefore urge urged to take no risk but to pack the see beds thoroughly and then to sow a ai soon as the he season seasor warrants |