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Show Wheat and Beets. European experience el ows that wheat yields always increase after a crop ofbeota; consequently, upon general principles, beet cultivation, either before be-fore or after a crop of wheat, oilers advantages. It does not necessarily foliow that the time to introduce beets on a farm iu when wheat is selling high or low; it should be done at any and all timea (allowance being made for a certain rotation), when tho demand for the roots exists at tho factory. These acts are mentioned simply to answer several remarks made by correspondents who urge that farmers should avail themselves of agricultural depressions for the introduction of new crops. The demand for the supply must exist, otherwise the crop cannot bo disposed of. Beets, when contracted for in advance, unable tho fanner to live under conditions of repose of mind that cereals never allow, and gives all the advantages ad-vantages that crops in general oiler and none of tho disadvantages. Tlie Sugar Beet. |