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Show WHAT SUGAR BEETS DO FOR THE FARMER An Instructive story of the experi enco of an Emporia, Kansas, farmer, demonstrating the value of sugar beets In rotnt'on with other crops Is told by the Concordia, Kns., Dlade. The farmer, whoso name 1b Ruttln Fowler, had three plats of land, nil the same character of soil and ad-Joining, ad-Joining, which were planted in wheat, sugar beets nnd corn In 1912. TbU year all of this land whs sowed to wheat. The striking difference In stand of the wheat grown from tho three fields caused Mr. Fowler to thrash the crop from each ono separately sep-arately In order to determine the difference In yield. The land on which wheat succeeded succeed-ed corn produced only five bushels to the acre. (This of course must have been duo to special conditions and Is not to bo take)n ns an o-dlnary or average result of following corn with wheat). That on which wheat was grown In both years yielded 10 bushels bush-els to the aero, Tho field In which wheat followed sugar beets produced 40 bushels to tho acre. "Sugar beets are going to be the thing for this country," he says. "They are Just as good for tho land as alfalfa and require no moro work than corn, excepting tho hnnd labor." It Is a Btriklnn coincidence that tho very time when tho necessity ot Increasing the agricultural output of tho country Is coming to bo appreciated appreci-ated as n national problom of first rnto Importance nnd when tho farm ers of tho sugar growing sections of the country are beginning to understand under-stand tho great possibilities of tho sugar beet In Increasing the jlold of their ncres Is tho very tlmo select! by tho framers of tho Underwood tariff ta-riff bill to cripple tho domestlo sugar Industry. |
