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Show i P'owing for Beets. Pali and winter plowing is absolutely essential to success in sugar beet cultivation," culti-vation," so Mr. Austin told tho people in Pecos Valley. He saya that almost all tho beet lands around Lclii are plowed for next year's crop, and stated that the farmers of tho Pecos Valloy could not bo too strongly urged to turn their land over immediately. a Mr. Austin is an advocato of deep plowing, but believes it should bo done bv fdulitioanTgajeach, year. He does not belieye it wise or calculated to pro'dure the best results to plow land twelve inches deep that has hitherto been plowed only four or five inches. Too much raw material is then brought to tli,e surface, more than the clcmanta can properlyripen and mellow in ono.wintor. A little at a- time is hie maxim. Ho is a thorough agriculturist and succeesf ul beet grower, and naturally natural-ly knows whereof he speaks. |