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Show Benefit of Beet Cnlture.. Tho profit of sugar beet culture for tho farmers shows the following experiences in Germany and Austria-Hungary. Tho ten years average crop from .1 German farm of 625 acres in cereals was 67U0 bushels of grain before tho beet culture w;w introduced and planted eacli year 125 acres with sugar beets, tho average crop of grain from the remaining 500 acres wos 5830 bushels yearly. Another Gorman farm of 025 acres in Saxony showed tho following figures : Before the bett culture, the ten years average crop of grain was yearly 13,871) buhhels. When each year there were planted 135 acres of beets, the yearly crop was 1-1,305 bushels from the remaining 400 acres, and when later there wero planted 22"q acres in beets, tho average grain crop was 14,395 bushels yearly fioin 0e remaining re-maining 405 acres. Tliirtyflvc other , German ff.umBj showed tho following'increasoaftertlieyj introduccdlj.the Jbegttf cui tut eaEiuateiil Boforo the beet culture Pounds. Wheat 1,843' ltyo VCtt Barley 1,072 Oaos 1,355 Peose , l35 Potatoes. ,11 ,710 After inlroducing beot culture Wheat '. i 2,120 Ivyo '- i jO Bailey 1 . . . ,.i 2,004 Gala .' 1,018 Peaes 1,834 Potatoes '. . .13,5t Tons. Sugar beets 1,530 Austria-Hungary incioaeed the crops after introducing sugar beet and deep culture as follows: In winter crops, 12 to 25 per cent; in corn, 10 to 30 per cent ; in tobacco, 20 to 24 per cent; and iu beets 30 per cent. Thore was an average ineieaso in all ci ops of about 21 per cent in Germany i and Austria-Hungary, in consequence of the sugar best culture Planter. |