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Show Causes of Inferior Beds. Proa David Kcclcsof tho Ogdcn Sugar Co. In his annual report ot that factory gives tho following: Referring to the list of nucstloiiB sent to tho boot growers grow-ers ho says tho inquiries woro sont out with a view of tabulating tho combined experiences, and by bulletins disseminata dissemin-ata tho result. Not over one-halfof the answers havo been received but from thu information thus far obtained, he savs that tiuring 18UD tho nverago crop raised por aero was between ten and clevtn tons ; as a rule the planting shou Id j,avo commenced from ono tj throo weekB earlier than It was; that, npart from over Irrigation, tlio itso of Inferior soil, or soil unlit for beet grow ins; purposes, pur-poses, coupled with indifferent cultivation, cultiva-tion, wero the chief causes not only of tho eni nil ciop, but also of the existence of inferior beets j that subsoil plowing in tho fall, followed by shallow ploughing plough-ing mid harrowing in tho spring produced pro-duced the best nnd largest csop; that if fertilization becomes at nil necessary, it should bo done In the f.ill, by thu spread lug of a very light coat of well rttled lino stable maiiuro; the virgin soil should, during its firstyenr's use, pro-fuiablo pro-fuiablo produce Homo cereal crop, and not beots; that, tho experience of other sugar factories (and especially that at Lchl J has demonstrated that tlio longer beets are produced upon the sauie grounds, and taken good caru of, tho belter tho bets will become, and tho larger thu crop such land will produce. Hu says the company has had serious losses caused from badly topped and 'inniiituro beets. This caused a second giowth ufter the beds had been delivoi-ed delivoi-ed which in turn caused such u huge in-veislon in-veislon of sugar in tlio beet, that it was almost imposriblo to keep tho iuipuritieo caused by fermentation sufllcicntly low-to low-to enable thu syrup to run through the factory nt nil. |