Show PLANTING SUGAR BEETS the western beet sugar company has issued the following circular under date of april 12 and containing directions for planting and cultivating the sugar beet seed preparation of the ground instructions for this purpose way may be briefly summarized as follow plow the soil oil from 10 to 12 inches deep very early in the spring and it Is better to do this twice than once this can beet be done by two successive pl plow owings laga with an ordinary plow A rich soil should be plowed a few inches deeper say 14 inches deep than a mere flat soil with a poor subsoil the plowing should be followed by passing a heavy iron toothed harrow over the ground in order to pulverize the soil as much as possible an iron roller must be passed over the ground so as to equalize the surface and break the clods when ashe ground to of such a character as to render this feces sacy solving the seed the seed should be sown e early aly in the month of march before sowing it must be soaked in water crater for twelve hours but the water should be allowed to drain off before the seed is used it should be buried at a depth of from one to one and a half ff inches iches but in very rich soil not deeper than one inch the rows must be from twelve to fifteen inches apart from each other according to the quality of the soll soil in the row the distance distance between each beet varies from six to eight inches A lemor leaser distance between the beets gives small and sweet beets which are difficult to preserve one acre requires six pounds of sugar beet seed hoeing and heaping As soon as the seed is growing up chih takes from ten to fourteen jays days in a wet soil and several weeks in a dry soil the first hoeing or heaping shojii anoum begin the second hoeing follows the thinning out of the beets and the last hoeing occurs some four weeks I 1 later ater when the rows lg are visible a borse horseshoe shoe is ia run lightly acro across sethe the field between the rows and this will be difficult if the regularity of the rows were imperfect On horseshoe with two hoes will aiu wore about three acres every day thinning ning the thinning out of the beets iu in a row should begin egila when the beet root arrives at w fhe thickness of ya of an inch then SO a the beets except the larga largest aro are placed six inches apart faolu fco each other in the row are removed if they are grown too wide apart rtin on good land the beets beete grow larger but bat are poor in sugar on the other hand if they are planted too close to each other the roots are rich w in sugar but remain small in either ewe case the value of the roots is wa W than when both extremes are avoided beets that are too small are very difficult to preserve and those that are too large lose in sugar on row in each acre should ibe be left us touched or anly aly thinned in MW of any injury to the crop this row in is held eld as a reserve until the beet root becomes Y inch thick when all danger leaf is at an end tran as should b ou id it be necessary to transplant beets beete from the row reserved this should be w done with a wooden borer S great care being taken not to I 1 inlove are the to young roote when taking t ta em u 1 and transplanting them this his I 1 la operation is often performed r by oy means of a tran transplant r an D v I 1 tru ment especially made mad for fo this pcs pose |