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Show tm SLTEJgASS8C!ADia Sugar I5eets Are Paying Crop The fact that sugair beots are a deep growing crop means that the land should be plowed deep and put into a state of cultivation before the field is seeded, advises H. B. Carrol county agent Another essential requirement fot sugar beet production is a liberal supply of barnyard manure, supple mented with 300 lbs. of super-phosphate and 199 pounds of potash per acre. When a sufficient amount of barnyard manure is lacking use a complete fertilizer such as 4 S-10, the latter mixture can be fused if clover sod is plowed under. In planting sugar tieets, on river bottom a farmer makes no mistake, because that crop will bring in greater great-er returns jer acre than oats, barley or potatoes. This statement is based on cost of producing any of the above mentioned crops, according to the year ibook published by the United States Department of . Agriculture. Figures complied by the department ehow that it cost 33 cents per 'mshel to produce oats, and $1.3S per nushe. to produce wheat and 46 cents per bushel to produce potatoes. Sugar beets cost from ?75 to $90 pr- acre to produce and with a guaranteed price of $7 per ton for bee:-, and with a crop of 14 to 19 tons p. r acre return an income of from ?22 :o $60 per acre above labor cots, rc?:t and taxes on the land devoted to the production pro-duction of 'beets. Besides this income for beets there is the beet tops which make a good feed for cows in the fall. Sugar beets as a crop are no harder hard-er on soil fertility than other crops grown in this district and besides they work in as a cultivated crop and prepare the land for such crops as clover and alfolfa. Sugar beets work 1 into a rotation which adds great ben- j efits to our system of farming and I for this reason and in view of the fact 1 that there is money to be made by j growing sugar beets, a lander acreage j could well be devoted to them in the I county. I |