| Show TO IRRIGATE BEETS BEETS' Well Veil Equipped Farm Is Provided With Necessary Machinery After Seeding Is Done Most Important Factor Is Furrowing Out for Irrigation Implements and Methods The Tate well-equipped well sugar beet farm farmIs Is ts provided with a lot of machinery that becomes an absolute necessity After the seeding Reeding Is done clone the most important thing Is the furrowing out for Irrigation One good scheme Is to use a sled made of Inch timbers two forty-two Inches long as runners spaced wide enough to straddle two rows writes F F. W. W Roeding In Field and Fancy These timbers are set to torun torun torun run on on edge and are sharpened at the forward point and armed with old furrowIng furrowing fur fur- rowing shovels which about fit them Th The Tho runners are securely spiked together together to to- gether at the back end with two-inch two planks upon which the driver rides and arc are connected in front by a timber to which the draft is attached Either one or two horses are used two being preferable as there is not so much danger of the sled shifting from its line This Implement makes a smooth even furrow without clods to Interrupt the flow With it furrows can be placed In alternate rows or every row as desired In the latter case a furrowed fur fur- rowed lowed row would be straddled More Moie runners could be placed on the sled to furrow out more moie than two rows at a n time except that slight In the surface will prevent the making making ma ma- king of as good furrows Smooth furrows furrows furrows fur fur- rows especially for irrigating up the seed are most essential and no other implement can be secured to give as g gool gIol Jol results as this made home de de- de- de vice More lore crude forms are made of two straight limbs of cottonwood five or six Inches in diameter for runners The two two row row or four row four row beet cultivator cultivator cultivator vator with winged long-winged furrowing shovels attached is probably more largely used in making furrows than any other Implement Ten acres a aday aday aday day can be covered with the row four-row cultivator and five acres with the two two- row implement with one or orr two horses and one man while preparing the field with the furrowing sled after cultivation cultivation cultivation tion requires about two or three times as much work The advantage of the sled Is in the lesser cost of the implement implement im im- im which Is a decided advantage advantage advantage tage on small fields and the better work In making furrows and distributing distributing dis- dis water If It at the time of Irrigation irrl 1111 gation the soil has become dry and hard a cultivation with deer or bull tongues In the middles to loosen the I packed soil will be found helpful as it permits the making of oC good deep furrows furrows fur Cur rows and overcomes the resistance nce which a dry packed soil has haR to water When furrowed out with the sled a adeep adeep adeep deep smooth runway for the water Is obtained When the furrows are arc made with the furrowing shovel a deer tongue or soil soil loosening tool can be placed In front of the furrowing shovels am and the whole operation completed at once After the rows have been furrowed furrowed furrowed fur fur- rowed out It is necessary to prepare head ditches from which water can be turned Into the furrows This is accomplished accomplished ac ac- ac- ac by plowing out a ditch parallel to the field lateral which s' s B yes ves the area The head ditch Is then ut ut into sections with earth dams each section serving a certain number of rows according to the grade of the ditch an and connected con con- by a agate agate agate gate to tho lateral ditch The ban bank Ie next to the furrows Is cut for either one or two furrows and the water turned onBy on By having head ditches the water can be well distributed and several sections can be running at the same time If there is sufficient water The amount allotted to each furrow should be small so that it will run slowly and secure good saturation as as' as well as prevent wetting the soil over the seed At intervals of to feet there should be cross ditches which will intercept waste water from the I rows above them and also supply water to the lengths of rows below ItIs It ItIs Itis Is a mistake e to attempt to run water the entire length of a field if it it ItIs is ismore Ismore ismore more than feet as the upper end will become t too o wet stet before the water reaches the lower end The slope naturally determines the distance between between between be be- tween cross ditches and where this Is considerable they can be spaced at greater intervals but on flatter areas feet or even less will be found Cound sufficient suf suf- I Cross ditches are made by simply plowing out dead furrows with a good sized plow either cither single or double moldboard If parallel head ditches are placed along each cross cross cross' ditch it itI will result in the destruction of too many beets so that here the water Is run to to the tho lowest point on the cross ditch and turned Into a section of rows When these are Irrigated a adam adam adam dam is thrown in and the water di- di to the next section |
