Show I SUGAR BEET IN EXPERIMENT Net Profit of 2482 Represents About Best That Can Be Expected From Culture I i This is the time to think seriously about hauling out the tho manure and applying applying applying ap ap- ap- ap plying it ti to the tho beet land for by this time we are all agreed that tbt we e cannot cannot can can- not keep on gr growing sugar b beets with without without out replenishing the soil We have havo i had plenty of demonstrations to cinch this manure agreement so that there need no longer be bo any question about it In all the sugar coated talk wo 10 get gel from the trust nothing is ever said about the disastrous deterioration of ot our soils solIs under culture and it is a matter matter mat mat- I ter we can no long longer r sidetrack Last year in Otero county n a field containing contain contain- ing lug 54 64 acres of cultivated bind and was planted to beets I The soil son is black heavy adobe easily cracked when becoming be coming dry dy so that frequent irrigation Is necessary The preparation of the seed bed seeding cultivation and Irrigation irrigation ir Ir- Ir were carried on promptly aud thoroughly regardless of expense as asIt It ii was wac desired to raise the crop according according ac no- cording to the standard method of the valley Ten acres in this field was vas as fertilized with ten tons of or stock yard manure manura to the acre during the previous win ter On these ten acres which averaged ayer averS aged per cent sugar about two acres were sprayed with double strength bordeaux mixture In order to prevent l leS f spot While the disease was not entirely prevented it was checked to considerable degree and the tons harvested from this part of the field containing acres averaged averaged averaged aver aver- aged 1464 tons the acre with per percent cent sugar The second patch also contained ten acres ceres and was fertilized with ten tons of lime the acre from the factory s settling basin but not The increase of 63 tons on each acre of thi tl as a tY m e f Still Still J it j jm I iri Ji j i 1 VV Tir a ay a m Ji y 1 i r W e y i lie T u. u lJ ut Jive five acres acres- wa was not or limed T The le yield vas vas a fraction less ess than ten tons the acre and probably probably probe ably represents very closely what tho the whole field would have yielded if no manure or lime Ume had been supplied The remainder of the field con con- 29 acres which were with ten tons of stock yard manure i ithe the he acre This tract showed an Increase increase increase in in- inI I crease of tons the acre over the adjoining tract not The total otal cost to grow and harvest these beets not Including rent was the he acre which left a net profit of ot 2482 and this result comes very near representing about the very best that can be expected from beet culture in inthis inthis this his when the best efforts are put forth to bring a crop through |