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Show BEETS REQUIRE MUCH WATER Investigation Shows Enormoui Amount Used to Produce Crop-Care Crop-Care In Irrigating. A crop of beets uses enormous qimo titles of water. An Investigation on clay loam showed that land having 19 per cent of its weight water at the beginning of the season used 1H) torn per acre to produce a 15-ton crop from 4 feet of soil, 100 Ions of which was lost by evaporation and 90 ton usee" by the crop. In general, 1 Inch of water wa-ter applied to the soil will penetrate from 3 to 8 Inches down, the lessei distance in clays and heavy loams and the greater distance In HandB and light loams. Fortunately the beet plant Itself If a good Indicator of Its own needs Id respect to mJsture far better. In fact, that any laboratory method thui far evolved. hen during the Unit the beet Is in:king Its more active growth the ligh green, bright health color turns to deeper, dull, rather purplish tinge, he field Is in need ol '"r. The Inlgatlon must bo given promptly, for f allowed to go tin beets will rlpfn. Then If water It given there is k tendency on the part nf the plant to Jproduce a secondary growth prepare Jury to sending up to need KtalkH, whiih not only cuts down Use sugar conteiy already laid up, but ilso prohibits f.Jiure formation. |