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Show f 'TraLa - Profitable Sugar Beets, I f 'V, ' .. Tho end of the campaign for 1807 rtt ' MioNorfolk (Nob.) beot sugar plant gives f ' f mi average yield in sugar df nearly 190 I pounds pur ton of beets. If an iivomge jp price of $4 por ton la paid the farmer, k. M thcro can bo but little profit leftifor tho twjm augur company, Sugnr beets, howeven f ' . 4 will make a much better allowing than I ' this if properly grown. Tho mistahO g m03t farmers make is in growing a heavy , crop at tho expenso of the sugar content. "" It 18 doubtful if inore than ilfteen tons i por aero call be grown with safety, unless fc tho quickly uvnilublo chemical manures . are used very liberally, and what i8 o t " fully equal importance, used ery W intelligently. " !. By working plenty of barnyard ? " " snouuro into tho soil a heavy crop may 6, bo made, but tho btignr content will bi W' ' . low. The mineral aitlijzai of barrt- Wi .. yard manure arc slo v nciiug as compared R with Its amonia. To get an idea of how f '' much importance the mineral fertilizers (are to sugar' beota, it is only neecfcsaiy to compare the chemical analysis with tho eamo figures for a staple crop sucli as I corn. In the corn plant for everv 100 I pounds of nitrogen taken up by the crop L then must nlso bo taken up iU5 pounds Ek of phosphoric acid and 2oo pound? of ft potuah ; for the sugar beet crop each 6 pound of nitrogen must luwu to go with l : . them, 250 pounds of phosphoricucid nud fit 445 pounds of potash. It is plainly evi- B , , ' dent thereforo, that a manure which r " i. . ' gives very good results en corn will not JL ""' vgMjygtHwcr for sugar beets, Furthermore! IL.,. gBBKRe corn p'lafolfnWi Vi'de mfclVimj foot R while the biigar beet root system ia fjC- "' confined to narrow limits, and tho soil h .-inuat bo fed fm more llberallv. ft It is now generally understood lha Btigar beets should follow a cultivated crop that is tho ground should hayo L . been worked thoroughly tho previous I year, not only In order that tho weeds ; may bo well subdued, but also that the j soil may bo in a lino open condition. J , Com is tho Heal crop to precede sugar ' beets, as itanswciaall tho requirements. A clover sod will answer, but it must bo ploughed late in tho fall, and thoroughly cioss-ploughed in fio spiing. A si ort rotation should bo used, as a sugar boet farmer is something of a specialist, and should keep his coll in his specialty as t. much as possible. A fair rotation would . bo corn with crimson clover (or it her suitable legurn) broadcast in August and k ' tho clover ciop ploughed under as late ' in tho fall as possible. Cross-plough tho next year as early as possible, and ( j plant beets, to bo followed tho next year by corn in fact, a two-year iota" j tion. By this lotation all the farmyard -v manuro should bo used on the corn r with art application of about -100 pounds j of kainit (or 100 pounds of muriate of vf . potash) in July for tho legume. On the I sugar beet only chemical fertilizer ' h. should bo used, and the applications I v;- " per acre should not bn lues than 1000 f pounds of a foitilizer of tho following i analysis: Amnioiila, 0 por cent; potjish 8 pci cent; phosphoric acid, available, 0 percent. The potash used should bo in 'j- tho form of sulphate, unless it is applied Jio previous fall, when kainitorniuriato V V ' 4 inay be used with perfejt safety. v If the soil is in very good condition, oven heaver applications may bo used (' proiltably, but theecil must bo In a very foitilo condition. It is a well-tried maxim that the morn fertilizer you uro tho mort) you can profitably mo, A soil which pioduccs but ten tons of fair sugar beets per acre, iim in a few years, bo able to produce Ilfteen tons, and of a; much higher quality. It is all u matter of systematic ivii.i.:uiun. S. Lac5ek, in Couiitiy ijitfiitlcmun. |