OCR Text |
Show BEETS MAY BE GROWN BY DRY FARMING IN IDAHO , W. A Budge, local manager for the Amalgamated Sugar company at Bur-ley, Bur-ley, Ida., is in Ogden today conferring confer-ring with Manager L. R. Eccies. Mr. Budge says that the sugar beet crop in the Burley district for 1913 was quite satisfactory an a first year production, but that it will bo much heavier this season. Last spring some of the best lands became so dry that the early growth of the root was retardeJ and, in some instances, the seed was wasted, there being no growth at all, but the farmers farm-ers concluded to experiment on re-seeding, re-seeding, which is claimed by expert beet growers to be useless. A number of acres were accordingly replanted In June and in the fall a barest of 12 tons to the acre was gathered. The soil there Is much the same as it Is here and the experiment shows that if land Is properly handled it will produce a crop of beets even In a short summer. This experiment may lead also to the cultivation of dry lands for sugar beets, especially In sections where there is considerable rainfall. There is not much snow at Burley, Mr. Budge says, and the section has been visited by a heavy rain. There was considerable snowfall about Christmas time, but the thaw since then has laid the ground bare and there has been no sleighing. |