| Show HURRY BEET WEIGHING AVOID EXCESSIVE DIRT sugar beets lose weight excessively when left exposed in the f field after digging even with the present sliding scale on the price of beets beeta this loss in vie veigh fc becomes entirely a loss to the fanner says professor george of the utah grecul tural experiment station beets pulled and topped and left or put only in small plies piles lose five per cent of their weight each day for about five or 01 ax thus making a loss of at least ne fourth the total crop in a yeek this happens in ordinary dry autumn weather boots beets lose even more the leaves are arc good evaporators no farmer can afford to lose a ton of beets a day on each aero acre lie be has labored so hard to grow the best thing is to haul at once the loaders keeping as close as convenient to the toppers in ease case beets must be left in the lold experimental worl work has proved that they sho jd be in large piles of a least mounds and thoroughly covered with four to six inches of tops with no thin places not even cven along the bottom edges of the pile beets so c cared ared for lose only about one per cent of their weight in 2 hours cool damp dain weather decreases loss but by no means prevents it avoid excessive dirt it is extremely short sighted for farmers to allow their beets to go over the factory weight I 1 selles scales with great quantities of dirt clinging to them sometimes this cannot be prevented but everything within reason should be done to avoid it the factory I 1 cannot afford to luy buy derl nor can it afford the extra work of clean I 1 ing and the extra resultant storage loss without making heavy tare deductions whereby the loss is jn erel passed back to the farmer fanner |
