Show GREATER OA 1 CAKE E AT THINNING ME IE lEte SS S HIGHER YIELD By D C TIr GEY A good stan of sugar-beets sugar i is or of orI I major ice ce cc in securing high yields Proper Prope thinning thinning- i is the most important fact r In in securing a good stand This fa t has been brought out by a rather reful study tudy made in inI I various parts Jf if f Utah and Idaho to determine the ause or causes of thE sugar beets great c e c in jn yield of sugar sugar- beets secured y r different farmers lo- lo located located lo located similar in the i ime vicinity with simi simi- lar soil am ant an climatic conditions Typical T 1 ical areas were ere chosen chosen and records kept on time jf f planting nature and kind of It was fou fow d that on the average farmers ed but a 50 per cent stand due to ass incurred up to time after of thinning thinning and af af- af ter thinning From a study of th the fields during the season they found that 19 per c nt of the loss took plat place e place up to me of thinning 24 percent per pe r cent duping inning and 7 per ten cent t took Place of af r thinning This brings out the fact at poor thinning is the th e cause of nea neat y one half the stands in s gar beets poor Just hog how much stand neaty i ty yield is shown show n v by conditions the fact t at under similar condi condi- when t e stand was r cent percent perfect he yield was tons ton per pe s an acres Wh it was per cent perfect ns and when but 29 0 per cent t t tons to the acre l II I N BEETS E E l S E AU ABLY L Y Thinning Thinning- s begin when mos most t of the s have acquired true two tw o leaves rom rom experiments ried carried on in Gerany Ger any it car car car- was found that tha t when beets we were e thinned at the time the yield props proper r as 10 tons r a iu to 10 the the acre when thinned me ne nc week late 13 5 tons when tI tInned thinned nned two weeks late la te 10 tons and when thinned three late 7 tons to the he acre With weeks week beets beet S selling at 5 a ion on this e represents loss acre loss of 25 and 10 40 10 re- re re an a n respectively respect vely I Leave Only the Largest Beets There are ru runts ts is in beets as well wella in asin litters of pig These as a s runts never neve r produce the produced by hy larger large r beets and and pigs pigs Experiments conducted conducted in Colorado by the Great Western Sugar Com Com- Company Company Company pany show that when only the largest beets were left leftin in the rows the yield was as tons t the thc acre compared to 1611 tons to the toe acres when only the thc smallest beets were left This is a difference of 1 1469 tons to the acre in favor of leaVi leaving g the largest beets at time of g |