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Show mers Urged Chris' Plant Even 5 Late Spring angels Show Late Spring Pply oducers Bumper Crops a "Sfit storms and backward lrDj' r of the present season v ' not result in any handi- .beet growers of this dis- 60 bt;Past planting experiences jprin, relied upon. On the con-iy con-iy jj. late spring like the pres-inters pres-inters anci nas produced some biggest yields in the past. Go reassuring word was is-eretoiday is-eretoiday by W. Y. Cannon, pro- 0 trac. manager of Gunnison Wnc. Mr. Cannon cited the -938 and 1942 when the -A gixwas comparatively late and li yields were substantially right ;he average, nachiy planting ... an impor- 1 of Ktor in beet yields . . . does ; Vtijbv the calendar. It may "Wanting in March or early Fill;., in an early spring, but I akiinly means something ised Pa late spring like the pres-sale. pres-sale. adoxical as it may sound, y lateness of this spring xmit more growers than to practice early, or time-ting time-ting this year, and to ob-aximum ob-aximum yields, if favor-IJjjwing favor-IJjjwing conditions follow, a ni.inoss in planting cannot Jfcrmined by the calendar, s planting at the earliest le opportunity under the , flouOiditions of seedbed and I Vlw There is no advantage , ir, and there may be a WArilsadvantage, in rushing 'i in March or early April fajjieason is backward and '"'ns are not right. The :eems to indicate that """' r date has little to do i.rjj resulting yield; timeli-j'i timeli-j'i the other hand, is all- 4'jar's late spring has per-V per-V fnost farmers to complete the work of soil prepara-, prtkm e tne moisture is still in com5ind. The first few days id 1 tbiweather will permit them '"their fields an additional Vt !lig to eliminate weed ""ater, and the ground will "l for planting, with just 9t amount of surface mois-Ml,kassure mois-Ml,kassure good germination sure; sbest advice to beet grow-, grow-, salt e is to realize that this add ortjust one of those years ;g witkverything is late d milktrees, grasses, and peren-r peren-r ingrcd all kinds. If your beets' ie flouier see(j crops are not in, ly flouirry Take time now to II or pie best seedbed possible, e in un:nt the first favorable op- hot "advantage of this excel-tes excel-tes or L. moisture but if we start am MS preparations and plant our beet crop will start d f,ou,5r difficulties. Take time ' or he job right and don't bout the calendar." measu |