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Show New Beet Cultivator - Mr. George Udall of Eureka, Eure-ka, was in Lehi several days this week making demonstrat ions with a new improved sugar beet cultivator which he has invented in-vented and which he claims will make the beets grow larger, use less irrigation water, and his theory is scientifically correct. He made several tests on various fields and will come back again in a few weeks to make other tests and prove that his machine will grow more beets per acre and use less water than any other oth-er method. As shown in the illustrations, his machine consists of four furrow plows on the bottom of which is a triangular blade which loosens the ground 6, 8 orlO inches as desired without turning it over. At the same time a furrow is made for irrigating when the plants show necessity for it. The draft is so light that two ordinary or-dinary horses pull the machine with ease. The blades on the bottom are eight inches wide, so that there is no danger of cutting them in rows 20 inches apart. Cultivation is the secret of success suc-cess in conserving the moisture, and by loosening the soil deep the beet's tap root will go down instead of forming a bunch of fibres near the surface, so that the machine does double service ser-vice by loosening the ground so that the root will go deeper after af-ter moisture and at the same time conserving the moisture already there. It is claimed that the use of the machine will produce as much as three tons of beets more per acre and do it with from one-half to two-thirds of the water for irrigation. --Spanish Fork Citizen. |