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Show Advice to Farmers. Mr. Jiolahird, manager of the Irrigation Irri-gation Co. at Eddy, N. M., has issued the following ndico to beet farmers: "In the judgement of the writer, the land should bo prepared not later than the first part of Febiuury by thorough iirigation. "The beet land that has been in crop the present seiiboii is in a proper condition con-dition to absorb water. This is very important, ns tho water should bo able to penetrate to a considerable depth, not less than six or eight feet. "After the surface of the ground has become sufficiently dry to permit plowing, plow-ing, it ehould be first plowed with the ordinary plow to u depth ofatlatt eightinches.and followingthis, the plow now used for plowing out the beets should take the bottom of the first furrow and break up the soil to a depth of at least twelve additonial inuhos from the surface of the ground. Then when the ground is perfectly pulverised by the harrow and all the uneven spots in the field levelled off carefully,, the ground is ready forthetseed. I "Caretul provision should be made for drainage in tho case of heavy rains simili.y t those we had during the past season.' If the" water can he'eairned off quickly It does no damage, but to stand twenty-four hours upon a Held of beets ia very detrimental. There can be no question now but that irrigating water should be applied in much lees quantity than waa used last year and that it should be distributed in furrows and not come in contact with the beet plant and that mork cultivation and less m-kiqation m-kiqation should ho the rule. "When this js thoroughly practiced there Bhould bo a tonnage averaging at least ten to is to the acre and in exceptional except-ional cases the amount should reach twenty tons to tho acre. "It is noticed in harvesting some of the fieldB that tho ground lias been plowed very shallow, not to exceed four orfiyeinches in deptn, and itis unreasonable unreason-able to expect from such imperfect preparation anything but a very ordinary ordin-ary crop. "Tho high percentage of saccharine mattor or augar in the beet is very en couraging, and it only remains to thoroughly prepare the soil and this valley will not only produco the rloliest beets but the best average tonnage of any country in the United States." |
