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Show AMERICAN SUGAR BEET GROW-" GROW-" ER'S ANNUAL. The American Sugar Industry and Beet Sugar Gazette of Chicago has issued is-sued a Growers' Annual which supplies sup-plies a want long felt in the literature of the sugar industry of the United States. Many excellent books have been published dealing with the technical tech-nical side of the industry and appealing appeal-ing especially to sugar manufacturers and refiners. This is the first work we have seen addressed exclusively to farmers, and dealing simply and thoroughly with the agricultural side of beet sugar production. Among the chapter headings we note the following: Relation of Sugar Beets to General Farming. The Factory as a Center of Instruction. Instruc-tion. Does it Pay to Raise Beets? How to Begin. Selection of the Soil. ' . Soil Management. Fertilizing the Land. Preparation of the Seed Bed. Cultivation. Thinning the Beets. Harvesting and Siloing, etc., etc. These and similar practical subjects ar treated simply and fully, article that have been published in the Gazette Ga-zette from time to time being drawn upon for material. They arc followed by a few chapters on the structure nad composition of the sugar beet the functions of its leaf and root systems, sys-tems, etc., and the whole is concluded by a chapter on Factory By-Products and their uses on the farm. Vc commend com-mend the book to those of our readers read-ers who are interested in beet culture. ' Price in paper covers 75 cents, cloth $1.50 post paid. |