| Show I U I jiOW HOV TO KEEP SUGAR I BEET LAND FERTILE T ot of Utah arid the I St Sl I 1 rv naturally very vory fertile ml III Ii I Is usually gUIlt Th T I t I lIce crops fur I I I eve oen thousands ot of oti S r I 1111 however hoever pO possess gellI Ii a i ot of anti and yet b be lit bl b Irod large crops be beC Je Jec c e r COIls exist In III soIls HolIg I I I A u lart of the tho for or orI I j lii III Ruth eak I a foul In the air and 1 in III the iq ii taken uti by the 1 titer form Is somewhat In InI I I for Cor Im ImI I I e II I by the plant When tho thoI th thI I t I It Is large the tho crop I vi t large In III fact the ther f r I I Oll year ear depend upon thia i d c of at growth Tho In Int t however may mar bo be I I of culture I t I III of greatest Importance I dr the tho number ot of otI I t rI K III nil mil last without the of oC foods I Io o I V beet farmers have mu outdo t r I l ot of very I I ut nt the or of th their thIr soils coa consequently it of the lie sell Mil hu has been II I and iid thin tho remaInIng r I or of Insolubility I is largely I r j I If 10 tie the It should I n tl or of the ina who desires to II ti h II ilL iii thie greatest state of 1 In It the tho largest I sater lter soluble plant too food 1 d 4 Ii 11 I done by permitting the lie 0 net act freely treely upon the lIne tr Ir ot at which soils Bolls are made It has been beell limply amply them dem demonstrated that moIsture air ILIr sunshIne anti frost flost acting lilIan the sell soli wIll sot tree It soluble pr iiI dl r avaIlable to plants In short un an infertIle soIl soli ten ter tile II by converting thai tho and therefore avaIlable L fertility this in III the tho wise sugar beet Jeet farm farmer arni er en leave the largest Of hits hIli to the darIng the of the lie year when tho ho Is severe In III other othor as soon SOOIl all as the lie sugar beet Is out of the tho the should ho bo thoroughly allowed to lie In a rough conditIon exposed ed to the tho ac of oC lie tho atmosphere und and other tic he forces It I Ii necel necessary aly to pro pre tiara the thu ground In the sprIng for tor tho ho conservation or of moIsture tIle tho Plant hog Ing ot of seed Tue rho hoeIng which Is necessary In successful s rul beet growIng ims hns the lie sune saitie effect of exposIng the up law Jer layers ot of sol soil to the lie and thus rendering the plant food lood le ble LIkewise the tho pulling ot oi the tho bets beets III the tho fall exposes eB the thie lower hoer depths of soil soli to 10 the lie weathering forces plowing carefully practised together the tho thorough cul necessary In iii good sugar beet growIng will main taiti the fertilIty of oC ordinary western Mils much longer hanger than Is the ease ni nithe the time It may be haitI down as 1 a law which has very few exceptions that In the the lie only time hue to plow ts is In the he tall fall Sugar beets are very NY exhausting crops They Thoy feed heavily on lime pot potash u ash h and nitrogen Jo en under the tho best conditions much fertility is III ear car ned ort off b by the tho beet than is III added annually by the actIon nellon of lie tho Insoluble ot o tie tOJ soIl Roll also tho lie hand on which sugar beets are Krown Is so valuable lint It lint lIot pay to 10 allow It to lb ever every other oIlier year yem It Ir this hits could bu done beets be planted on the tho soil Holl only every Cery other oilier year hero thero would lit a ery much larger amount ot of ide blo plant food for the tho crol cro Since thIs Is not It becomes becomeR to return to the salt Roll the tho ellul of Monie ot of tho lie fertIlity which the crop CIOl hits hus Plant food may be returned to the soil sail b h y addIng barnyard manure which hilch Is especially rich in III nItrogen the sub suJ stanco In which our salts tire aro most the de Ideal rue rho proper of oC manure added to the lie sOli every evory 1 en tibia the farmer larmer to grow Iho usual crop ot of sugar heels beets year after year ear The plant oath food In manure how iron Is bs partly III a locked UI or InsOluble condItion It Is 18 only as the tho rots that tha ho plant load food Is lib and for tor Jor Ol that reason well velh manure Is 19 generally reler ble to green manure The b best st I time mo to I the manure or found lound on our Utah farms Corms is 18 In iii tue tho fall It should he be scattered on the lie soil Roll just before beloro plowIng and then turned under Durin During the tho winter It will gradually decompose and In the I spring an and 1 earl summer wilt Ihl he In III PrUne prImo condition tor or the tho Use of oC plants Nest manure must bo 10 up U to the soIl soli In the all hien vell rotted rolled It may nitty bo be equally effectIve It In the sprIng An AI already the element ot of nitrogen Is the tho one which Is usuallY In soils nit on which sugar url are not vell In districts where Is not kept to great a extent I stable manure becomes II a scarce and ox ex expensIve pensIve artIcle Nature has hns provIded Us with n a method hi ever by whIch nItrogen be applIed very ery to tolie lie tho soil oll It IL so happens that lucern ole clo clove ve ser peas beans and In gen oral eral the that curry luhr In iii pods hul tie the power the tho or of living hiving that exist on roots of gather uther I bog Ing the essential nItrogen frum ruin the lie atmosphere The sugar beet Itself Ims haIJ nO power to un 10 thIs It If therefore the tho sugar beet fold is b run and deficient In nItrogen It 1 Is well teil to plant It II to ur or sonic crop crol which will uhl restore the tho host nitrogen When hen the lucern Is IR ngi 1 plowed up the soil wit again be In a 11 suItable ble Cor or su sugar ur beet heet productIon It tony lIay bo be noted here horl however that the tho roots which contain the tho precious nitrogen require some SOIlO time tinie tot CIJI th heir lr decay decar ant anti It seldom happens that hint best beet yIeld Is tile tho t yeah 11 IK Iii up It lii Is more generally true that the till lull hene or of ortho the tho is h not felt until the tho second third oi 01 fourth year The use of lucern other pot pod bear lug plants plant for tor the ot of the tar ter or of sugar beets lipIds of course towards IL Ii rotation ot of IM which In turn points a Ion of or seine Home other brunch branch of III lie JIve hive stock Industry with sIlk lie tho su KU sugar gar beet heet bu business cedIng of aol ani animals inaPt mals invariably preserves 1 a largo large par por of cit the fertility taken from the lie sell in III the form ot of malure which mIL bo be le to the he soil soli One great o of the lie beet Industry of oC this bile state Is that the lie sugar MUgar beet heet farmers as n a hotly are dIsInclIned to maintaIn lIve 1110 stork on their farms arms prevents the rn ratIonal rotation ot or orI crops which preserves the ho of oC till lie sell soli UltImately th failure In I combine the hIve IV stock sugar beet lInes wIth will lend head to the exhaustion or of tho ho soil with Ili a 11 consequent reductIon ot of to 10 thil th sugar beet farmer lormer The Tho future of the thai sate cries for lor loll Uon III this hIs III I I While litle It I Ii fOlly 0 belIeve hat our rich we western tern solis will whIt theIr present sill II ty forever fol iii yet lt hue fertility wilt continue undiminIshed It If the Pies here touched upon he be observed stated d these theBe lire l FIrst II a care tul of oC full tull plowIng second ot of to the tho soil In the full and thIrd the IJ of betts the nItrogen rath crops like hIke allt and ho hio eta cIa vers vels There Is an excuse In this state tel fol the falling olf In III the acre ot of ble bees s It If the lie soIl Is prep 1 tor 1 ft amount ot of I is at the of at the crops till lie state average yield oUght to he be 15 and 2 20 outs of to the instead or of 10 and 12 tOM liS 05 Is now reported b by the lie su sugar ar aret beet et companies To IC do this Id ed of the farmers auth u a wIllIng ne floss to obEY tho lie directions or of lie tho prill ot of agrIculture |
