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Show Thin Your Beets. IS'irift,. Exiirtulyfor "The Manner" Thoso farmers who have planted Into sugar beets, should mako an extra effort to get nt them at once, and see that they aro thinned out. Nino tenths of all the beets raised for tho Utah Sugar Factory this season hav o been allowed to get far too largo beforo being thinned ; ami had It not been for tlio very timely rains that have fallen In unusual quantities this spring, tho icsiilt, in a good many cases, would havo been a comparatively small yield, instead in-stead of the unusual heavy yield which f lorn present nppearauco will be the Mile. Tho hot weather of summer is nbout upon us now, and it will bo hard for the voung roots to recover from tho disturbance they will necessarily bo subjected to in being thinned; and especially Is this so with largo plants; for they will remain at n standstill for a good while, and oven if well Irrigated, is very doubtful if the yield will be as heavy as It would havo been had tho first work hoeing und thinning been done at tho proper timo, which, as wo havo often stated, Is just us soon as the third or fourth leaf has mado Its appearance appear-ance and is well defined. Mr. J.T. Tliorno, agont for tho Sugar Co., at Pleasant Grove, says that tho possibilities of the sugar beet crop havo already beou bo thoroughly demonstrated demonstra-ted in his section, that tho butter claes of farmcis areall expressing tbomsolvcs as quite anxious to cugago extensively In beet raising another year. This certainly must bo quito gratifying to Mr. Thorno, for ho was one of tho vory first to sco tho advantages of this crop over all others for tho farmer, and has been untiring in his efforts to instruct and assist thoso who havo branched out and put in beets at 1'leasant Grove this season. |