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Show BEETS MAY BE PLOWED UNDER The Utah Agricultural Collie has received many letters recent-lv recent-lv from farmers of Utah and I'daho asking that they be told how best to handle the beets left in the ground since last fall. Many farmers seem to think that if these beets are plowed under, they will tend to sour the sod. Tin- following statement by Dr. T S. Harris, Director of the Experiment Ex-periment Station of the I 'tall Agr.icultund College will clear uri thc",sititviUiV,-. U'(V& tfl l&WrAf and cont.njj uou storms last fall, many acres! 'of sugar beets wyfce fwen. in thri (round, and could not be harvested. harvest-ed. In some fields only the upper part of the beet was injured by 'the winter's ' freezing Where (this condition is found it will probably pay to dig the beets for stock feed. Where most of the beets are rotted, on the other hand, the roots can be plowed under as if they were manure. This adds organic matter to the soil and will ultimately improve the land." |