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Show dornypf vcgptible matter, distributing It owuly over an urn? of ground. and 'hr-n bury It to a d'T'th of six to fmir-(fcn fmir-(fcn inchoK?" A whole lot mnr"' nion-ry nion-ry ln most f.irrucrs would rare to pay. Is asKurff). Sugar bcts do Just that for th land, working every day. Sugar is rarbrn. hydrogen nnd oxy-Kf. oxy-Kf. In plain language It mean a chemical substance drawn from the rnins, sunlkht and winds. It In nothing noth-ing from this Roll. Still the question remains unanswered unans-wered as to why tho land ha. Improved Improv-ed in value for future. The fibrous roots, growiog deep into the ground, and after the gathering of the beet crp, decaying there In a sub-scll, a decayed vegetable matter that fur-nlshe.H fur-nlshe.H nourishment to succeeding crops. A xugar beet !j a root, the main part of which furnishes the crop as manufactured into sugar. The hundreds hun-dreds of little fibrous roots, clinging to the main stem, form a mat In the subsoil that enriches the land under the urn-face because they stay there. It has been figured that If the fibrous fi-brous roots left In tho ground after harvesting tho sugar iveets, weigh only three quarters of an ounce per 'beet. over one ton of vegetable matter Is left, furnishing a humous undergrowth where it nourishes. When it is considered. con-sidered. It Is not remarkable that crops following sugar beets are larger larg-er than otherwise, and no more remarkable re-markable that the most famous agricultural ag-ricultural expert lu the WTrkl stated that sugar beet culture would do moro to raising the standards of agriculture than any other one thing. In Germany, the home of crop rotation, rota-tion, fertilization and soil treatment, where for hundreds of years the lands have improved in productiveness rather rath-er than running down, the figures con-piled con-piled by the government havo shown that oats, following sagar beets in creased from 30. S bushels per acre to 38.2 per acre. Barley grew on an average av-erage of 31 S bushels, per acre, before beet raising and 3-1.6 bushels after. And more remarkable on the face of It Is the fact that the land had been used for sugar beets as long as feasible; feas-ible; needed to be planted to something some-thing else to rotate. Ono crop, acted as an enrlcber for tho other, and neither could endure long without help. The above cases mentioned in Germany Ger-many wero made from thirty five farms of from COO to 1,000 acres each, an aggregate that gives a definite figure fig-ure to take as correct. To bring It nearer home, and cite cases in tho Arkansas Valley this seeming chemical gymnastics of the grounds when ralslug sugar betta assumes as-sumes moio interest. Emery Robb, of the Rocky Ford district dis-trict says that be farmed twenty years In the valley raising an average of 4 0 bushels of oats and 100 crates of jcantaloupes before alsing any beets. After raising beets on his lands he ralied 50 bushels of oats and 125 crates of melons per acre. When It Is considered that Instead of paying out for a fertilizer, ho received a big Income from his beots, meauwhlle, and his lands were improved without added work. M. .T. Horner, also of Rocky Ford says that on 80 acre6 of land, prior to his raising sugar beets, he raised 40 bushels of oats and 25 bushels of wheat, and after raising sugar beets on twenty acres, rotating his crop each year, his oat yield had been 70 bushols an ncre. and wheat 40 bushels, bush-els, lie says, "I consider tho beet crop of value lo Increase the yield of wheat aud oats. Mr. John Johnson of Ix6 Animas, says: "On twenty acres of alfalfa reseeded the first year wo cut better bet-ter than Hc tons per acre Increasing our yield over half. Also increases the small grain crop almost double after sugar beets have been grown. Surely Secretary Wilson knew what ho said, and his words are proving themselves. Crop rotation Is necessary neces-sary to perpetual crops. Bonanza farming hardly pays anj where. Farming Farm-ing that increases the productiveness of the land Instead of decreasing It Daturally pays, and pays good each year. But the Increased value of tho land for all time is the largest Interest Inter-est on the Investment It is there to 8tay for future generations. Yes. wo must concede that Secretary Wilson knows. Truman 0. Palmer, an authority in sugar beet culture and agriculture economics eco-nomics has wild in a sentenco embodying em-bodying an enormous assertion, but undoubtedly more than true. He says: ' It is safe to say that since the creation crea-tion of tho world m other factor has had such Influence In tho production of human food supply as the pithy, fibrous, woody, little root which tho barbarians brought back from Italy nnd planted on the Bohemian plateau. plat-eau. Glenwood Springs Echo. EXPERTS SAY BEETS HELP THE GROUND We take Iho following Interesting Hem from the Rocky Ford Tribune, and Is well worth reproduction, as It may be of value to many Garfield county agriculturists: The secretary of agriculture has Raid that the production of our sugar at home will go farther toward raising rais-ing our standards of atrrlculture than will any other one thins, an assertion asser-tion that possibly sounds erroneous ou the face of It, but which appears to be decidedly sound after looking into the question. In this sugar l?et community such a statement n of interest, comng from a man who is undoubedly the preatest farmer of hiMtory, James Wilson. The reason for the statement is accounted ac-counted for In the word "rotation." Rotation, when referred to sugar beets means an Increased production of other oth-er crops following. Another statement which sounds stranpo, but In vlially true. It Ir belnj: generally accepted ns tho truth, but the reason for It ar not as well known, poKslhly, as thfy nrlcht be. To answer tbo question, a question might be aked "How much money ouM it take to pu-chai a ton of |