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Show IRRIGATE SUGAR-BEETS SUGAR-BEETS EARLY Dy Coomo Stewart, Utah experiment experi-ment St.ition It la f i.-i ' ti 1 1 y piMltl tililo to ln-f (tato aiiij.ir boota imicli tc-llor tliau u usually ,on.. It ft... noeonaary :o Inl.ito thoin w the Inn. I U atlll nvlluT moist uiidoinoiitli. This Is bo. eauao of Uu ;i'ouiul'a Urylni; out nt the ruii-faro tor two ur tluvo liu'hi-s In depth In i'oio the l.eetn hiivo j;rown to null U lellt al.o to pellotr.'lUl lino tho deep Hil. When this tnkea phieo there Is a biyer on top that Is coin. I'letely devoid ot soil moisture n,l which would not ho trouhlosomo If the beets reached well below It. I'nfoi'liuiMt.'ly, It happens too often that this drying takes place before tlm beets have crown beyond the dried area. When this condition does urlsa It la necessary to irrigate the surface in order to wit it sufficiently to per. mlt the beets to continue rowlni. I'aually only one such Irrigation Is necessary heiiiuso before tho time for a second application has come urouud the beet roots have tone down soma distance into tho damp soil. This first Irrigation should not l8 a heavy application. Only enough water wa-ter Is necessary to thoroughly moisten mois-ten the dry surface. It Is sometimes advocated that only on-ly each alternate space have a fur. row In It. It has been found better at the Kxnerlment Station, however, to make rather small furrows and place these close to the sucar-heeti on one side of tho space rather than trying to irrigate In the middle. When the furrow is made In the middle mid-dle of the space between two rows rather heavy applications aren eces. sary In order to cause tho water to soak over to the beets. There Is an old Idea prevalent In much of the State which says that crops should not be lrri.cated until It ;s absolutely necessary. This, how. ever, is not true on account of tha fact that the plants wilt very easily and beidn to suffer at once for water. There has been nothlns by way of 1 ri-.itlon that has been so harmful ns delayin,' tho first application until tho crops suffer seriously Many of the beets die from lack -if moistura and many others are so weakened that disease are able to take hold of them. One of the most noticeable things bout our experimental work on beets has been that beets properly manured manur-ed and rroperly Irrigated aro injured by disease to only a very slight extent ex-tent whereas beets that lack both fertility and moisture nre sometimes attacked to tin extent of practically 100 per cent. In lt19 when there was such a general attack of I'homa root-rot It was observed that, on poor land and on late iririrated beets, the Injury was about twice as great and In soma cases five times as great as on land that had been properly cared for In these two respects. People who visited the Experiment Karm In Logan Lo-gan were without exception struck by the great resistance to disease of beets that had been manured and Irrigated. Ir-rigated. In this connection It is also wis-dom wis-dom to see that seedbeds are proper. y packed ot the fact that a loose surface permits lack of soil moisture by evaporation. This creates tha same condition that delayed Irrigation would bring about. Very loose seed beds and rather steep slopes are much more likely to suffer from diseases di-seases of any sort than where tha proper conditions are provided. Here Is one of the opportunities for a grower ot sugar beets to stop a large leak in his income. On the average the sugar-beet yields nre only about one-half of what they should be and here Is one of the easy things to do to increase his yield. |