Show Some Sugar i r Beet Bet Pointers I By ll F F. S. S Harris Director Utah Agricultural Experiment S Station Few beet farmers stop to consider just what the sugar manufacturing business means to the community as aswell aswell aswell well as to them individually They all have plenty of opportunity to find out that beet raising calls for a lot of or good hard work Of course they experience experience ex ex- that comfortable feeling that comes when the beet money is received but hut they usually do donot not consider con con- sider slier what a difference it would make to tC their welfare if there were no beet money f Some of the reasons why beet raising raising rais rais- I ing fog is a benefit to the entire nUre community community community ity are First it provides a a crop the marketing of which can absolutely absolute absolute- ly be depended on at a k known own price for cash at harvest time This one fact has a wonderfully balancing in influence influence in- in fluence on the price of land and its rental value It immediately reduces the speculative element in land values values values val val- ues by uy establishing a mark by which the intrinsic value of the land may be ue judged Second sU sugar r beet raising provides work work for a large number of people at a fair air wage particularly does it give profitable employment to children children children child child- ren during the season when they are rot not in school and arid might otherwise be ue idle Third the sugar factory provides des work during the winter when farm work is not rushing for the extra farm hands that hat are needed during the summer summer time therefore maintaining maintaining main main- taming a higher st standard of ot wages during luring the winter In hi farming com corn These are only a few of the advantages an ad taxes of the sugar beet industry t to the community as a whole whole Among some of the advant advantages of beet heet raising to the Individual farmer r j f are First the farmer Is given a cash crop which enables him at th the close e of It the ye year r to discharge accounts that tha t have accumulated during the expensive Five siye summer summer season He is also abl able e to purchase for cash many of ot th the needed supplies that winter calls for If he had to wait for indirect returns returns returns re re- turns from some sonic other crops his credit cred cred- it would have to be considerably extended extended extended ex ex- tended and he could not buy to th the e best hest advantage Second the sugar beet gives an ex tilled crop to go into the rotaS rota rota- f y S t I 1 t 7 O Tt T y m t tion i n to to help help iJ i rid id of weeds weeds and to put in shape for other crops The deep leep tillage received by beets is beneficial to any crop that follows ih them h em n Third 6 beets use water wl when tt it is not in such gr great at demand for other crops like wheat wheat- th y also alBo require labor at a time when the farmer is not busy with grain groin or hay Thereby they thoy help to make it possible for the farmer Carmer to profitable labor for hims himself lC his hired help and his teams during the entire season The intermountain region is well adapted to td the raising of ot sugar beets the tonnage is particularly high high inthis In Inthis Inthis this region Now that the price paid for beets is especially high it is believed believed be be- that farmers will do well to I raise ju jut just t as many beets as their facilities will enable them them to to care for In doing this however it must be remembered that nothing but good goodland goodland goodland land should be used So much expense expense expense ex ex- pense is involved in the raising o of every acre of beets that everything should hould be made favorable to high yield The farmer cannot afford to p put t tall all of this expense on land that will yield only a low tonnage nett Better r put nut the poorer land where the loss will not be so great In case of ofa a a partial partial partial par par- failure Even good land must be thoroughly thorough thorough- ly cared for in order to make beet- beet raising successful The plowing should mould be thorough and deep liberal liberalise ise tse should be made of manure and 10 pains spared to secure a good seed bed Probably the single Ingle operation is most often orten neglected ted and neglect results in the greatest oss Gas is the thinning It is impossible ble Me to get a high tonnage unless the thinning is properly done It is very easy to reduce the yield one tons t to to the ilie acre h by careless thinning This year the loss due to this de- de rease Tease In some cases would mean rom 7 to 14 per acre Thin early and carefully and you rill be rewarded Attention to numerous details is necessary In the raising of sugar but the farmer who is willing o 0 give his attention to these details nd learn the business la is lam m In the high road to a steady and prosperity prosperity not not the get- get quick ich kind but the kind that makes him independent |