Show Prevent Losses During Harvest Of Sugar Beets Several years ago a careful experiment exper exper- experiment on the losses of weight eight s In beets during harvest was conducted near Ogden Utah and at Garden City Kansas Untapped beets were weighed and then scattered out on time the ground and left for twenty four hours During this period there W was lS' lS a loss of slightly over 10 per lIeI percent percent cent in weight The tops give off I water rapidly by hy transpiration During the first four hours this loss amounted to 71 per cent It H pays to t top p beets at the earliest earl carl iest lest possible moment after pulling I In a another other trial topped beets were thrown into small open piles of about 50 to GO 60 pounds each and Into larger or piles of to Ibs lbs each Neither was covered with tops In about seven hours t ho lie J Continued on page aga eight I I i Sugar I Continued lola from loss In WW was vas 1 I abOut cent ent from rom the Z S 9 Sper small SlOan pu Piles lilIes per coin cent from the large an ac l tweety fou r hours pilu ll in the 1 loSs l larger piles fr t amounted t to o per co cent n t and ant 1 i in n the al t small sm a er about twice that PIt P P- m much uch It II Is best to haul ham beet beets earliest possible at a time When after t they are left i ln In n V even a few few v hours n t pa payS the B li them thE m Into rather to I tir large Pile Pile- I In still still a third trial tO topped M were made into ped plies piles of Or a al ott pounds each each halt half un uncovered half halt covered with tops days the piles plies of ot D Durb uric t- t Unc lost per cent 42 per cent In Ina and a COVErEd K re repel this experiment t the he beets lo lost t Per un ua c cent nt as ed with 43 48 per Co ca COIt ey cent f for or the tors COret During Luring tho the first four fout of at these tests the I lost 3 36 G and 22 W per ver cent ent as pared with 05 and O. O 07 7 I per r tat c t n the covered pi plies piles les When beets are left for a c t longer time than a n week weekdays or da days s 's they begin to loose ina h Iu Ii can content ten t by a chemical char change Be t a ed Inversion Wh When en beet s are to be left felt Ia ht t field for more than a few hoi ha I pays paya to cover them well with to Large piles plies of or about fifty nety I h each lost 41 only per cent two months of November r ft cember i Another loss of or great seri seria I both to the farmer and to ti th tory results from tram the de' de deliT poorly topped beets Beet c carry salts which prevent pre tie the cc tr extraction of or sugar t the present contract the far suffers about half halt o of t this loss t the factory the other half halt j To leave part of the cron c beets causes loss both to the fe and to the factory J The factory cannot pay Jay for tor forTo E. E To haul in beets beefs covered with f makes extra hauling for tor the ru lax far The factory must make the fa to t r high enough to cover coyer the dirt dirl Tt the dirt must be hauled avail the f farmer armor C. C O. O Stott County A. A An Aoi 1 |