Show 6 irrigate beets early by george jeorga stewart professor ot of agronomy utah agricultural college beets ought not to be allowed to suffer buffer for water imort ol oi the beet troubles that caused so much damage lost last your year resulted either directly or indirectly from lacic of soil mol stura re about this alma of year the diseases such as geddling sickness and damp ingoff which reduced tile tho stand so duct audi with the blights baights and rots roti that wil ought suai havoc later inter in tile the ben aca son were caused by fungi unless organisms are present diseases cannot result nevertheless lack of tura lura retards regards growth and vre weakens akons th beets thereby making them beighl highly to disease studies by tho utah uenh experiment station showed that in field after field during last art season tho the alt auses tooti took hold only where ft hero the evets lind been previously weakened by scarcity ot 0 moisture mo lature footo seedbeds permit high evaporation and are therefore there fora arable in this respect IB as well ns As many others fall plowing to ig adnall tae tO ous alfalfa sud sod or grass sod bad bpd have to be worked thoroughly or too W rapid evaporation takes place anything that retains moisture to la favorable pro IMS from tile the deep deeper ersoll soil but early la ii season reason beet beef roots are too short to do vice much advantage from tills this trouts treat ment once the tha top soil becomes dry about the only tiling thing that can bedoun be doo la Is to irrigate it if heavy fosses axe are to be avoided water raam be applied at once unfortunately there to Is a cur rent idea among amon beo beN growers grow era that U water be ba withhold withheld tor for a time Us aih beet develops deeper roots there to ii no evidence whatever to support this idea Bv besides tile beets beeta are much weakened find to tho the first unfavorable condition that develops whether hot wind blowing sand in sect or disease tl first irrigation should bt be ap piled soon enough to tide over the per lod between the drying of the toll it surf aoi and the time when water to it ordinarily ordinal lly applied irrigation on tolls ou i that are dry on top can call scarcely conr n 4 too early the application need no 4 be heavy just enough to connect with the iha moisture in the deeper oll son some growers grower s acol that it Is dent clent to arri irrigate gate only fur ro rows w a this may bo be satisfactory la im so soils ile that soak easily but in clays that resist the taking in of water every row must bo be irrigated on bloies steep enough tor for water to run rapidly soaking must bo be allow allowed rd it Is usual ly wise to use small streams in n each I 1 furrow farrow in order to av a old washing shallow furrows permit more rapid of the surface where M lucre the tha beets aro are just enough depth to lm in sure the furrows carrying the water without flooding Is best long distance istance If between head Is to he avoided as tills wastes wa tor ter as well na its saturating the upper end of df the field before tho the lower end Is sufficiently clenty wot to help the tee bats rapid and uni uniform forin distribution of 0 writer water is Is much encouraged by short runs from well prepared lacall bitchos the uenh expedient station there fore urges farmers not to delay the me first irrigation of beets results Ile at dogan point unmistakably to the do de lity of early irrigation and tha use of short runs both time and boots may thus bo be saved |