Show IMPROPER BEET THIN CAUSES BIG LOSS careful supervision should be exercised hv br tile the farmer over his beet thinning according to probes professor or geo stewart of the utah agricultural experiment peri ment station this is brought out clearly bv a survey made rather recently in the districts or of provo fiali garland bah iah and idaho fall idaho this study was made in an erfort effort to find out alit what losses occurred red in sugar sug ar beet production A brief summary of these will show just what the situation was stand at harvest fia fi 5 3 per cent loss of stand 47 per cent yield 63 61 pr cent loss in bield 37 per cent A total loss of 47 per cent in stand amounting to 37 per cent in in yield occurred as follows poor r germination 19 9 per cent poor thinning 21 per cen cent t poor cultivation and irrigation 7 per cent total 47 per cent it is observable f from r 0 m those these tables table that heavy loses looses lo ses occur during germination mi nation and thinning of sugar beets it Is now too late to avoid the germination losses losse these being dup due principally to loose sped beds to land freshly broken from grass or alfalfa sod or to land that has been spring and not sufficiently packed the seed of course is iq re responsible for a certain amount of this but tile the great losses come due lie to improper Imn Inin roper pren preparation of the seedbed seed geed bed thinning however is lust Il gInning and the heavy loss of 21 per cent of the stand may mav be very largely avoided by draper supervision in thinning thinning losses come as a result of hasty work which results in making the gaps too wide in pulling out all of the beets in a clustor in leaving twin beets and in breaking the tops top off leaving the roots in the soil A great ganv beets thought to lie be thinned 12 inches were found to lie he actu actually alIr inches in one case and IS isa 7 inches in another case this Is due in part to contracting tr labor and in part to the fact that the labor lib or is not properly supervised 1 there is nothing that a farmer ca can n do that will bring him more ample re returns than to spend some of his own time in the field showing the bivs or laborers how the work must lie done twenty per cent of 0 a prop crop is too large a loss to be tolerated for adv one operation A certain amount of the extra etra space is made up iii bv the beets growing larger but boniv one fifth of the loss in tand stand was wa made up for by increased ize of beef |