Show HURRY BEET WEIGHING AVOID EXCESSIVE DIRT sugar beets lose f fy when left exposed in the field actor ilig digging ging even with tho the present sliding scale on the price of beets beeta this loss in weight becomes entirely a loss to the farmer mys profi georgo stewart of the utah agriculture experiment p peri ment station beets beet pulled and topped and left or put in small piles lose five per cent of their weight each day for about five or six days thus making a loss losa of at least one fourth of tho the total crop in it A week this happens in ordinary oid inary dry yiu limn weather beets lose iose even eyen more tho the leaves leave sare are good evaporators no no farmer can afford to loso lose a ion ton of be etsa a day on zach each acre he has labored so hard bogrow to grow the best thing to do Is to haul gaul at once tho iho 1 loaders keeping as close to tho the toppers as convenient in caso case boots beets mut must bo be left in tho the field experimental work has proved that they should be thrown in largo large piles of at least COO pounds and thoroughly covered with four to six inches of tops with no thin places not oven along the bottom edges of tho the pile beets so cared for lose about I 1 per cent of their weight in 21 hours coot damp weather decreases loss but fy y no means prevents it avoid excessive dirt dirl it is extremely short sighted for farmers to allow their ibets beets to go over the factory weigh scales with great quantities quani ties of dirt hanging lia nging on them sometimes this cannot be prevented but everything within reason should be done to avoid it the factory cannot afford to buy dirt nor can it afford tho the extra work of clean ing and the extra resultant storage loss without making heavy tare deductions duct ions whereby tho the loss is merely passed back to the farmer |