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Show SUGAR BEET SPECIALS Growing sugar beets pVomotes. 1. Thorough cultivation, which means better soil conditions nnd fewer weeds. 2. Crop rotation, which means better bet-ter farming methods and oven dis tribution of labor. 3. Dairying and livestock handling which mean better Incomes and tho maintenance of soil fertility. Growing sugar beets decreases: 1. Danger of crop lossoa from hall or frost; tho sugar beet Is a hardy plant. 2. Tho cost of crops that follow; tho digging of boots Is as good as deop fall plowing. 3. Financial risk of changes In crop markets; tho prlco of beets is known boforo they aro planted. Growing of sugar beets Increases: 1. By 25 to 50 por cent tho yields of crops following beets. 2. The mnrkot for forago through local Increases In livestock business. 2. Tho prlco per ncro of land and makes tho prlco stable. 4. Tho population of country and town, making blggor and better local lo-cal markots. 5. Tho supply of local, year round availablo labor. It Pays To Grow Sugar Beets Tho tops and crowns of sugar beets aro equal to an average ncro of nlfalfa with a craln ration added In making beef nnd mutton. An aero of beets will furnish 7 to 15 tons of tops for cnsllago. Tho boot pulp nnd molasses byproducts by-products from tho sugar factory mako oxcollent nnd chenp feed for stock. Pulp for old owes and old cows and molasses for hogs and horses. Sugar companies keop oxport agriculturists agri-culturists In tho field to holp tho farmers, without cost to tho farmer. Sugar beets mako a paying crop forjoung orchards, Keop ono fourth of your farm In sugar boots nnd aftor your crop rotation ro-tation gota to working you will harvest har-vest as much from tho remaining threo fourths as you do now from your cntlro farm. Sugar beets aro a good crop for Hinall farms. Sugar beet districts aro prosperous prosper-ous farming communities. It Is oasy for a beet grower to got ' credit at tho bank. Handling of sugar beets requires good borsos and good roads, and both aro found In sugar, districts. |