Show SELECTING THE SEED BEETS greatest care must be exercised in picking out only perfect and typical type of plants the all important thing in beet growing is good seed in selecting mother beets that is beets from aich which seed is to be grown the greatest care must be taken to pick out only perfect and typical types they must adust conform to many requirements they must not be too large or the sugar contents will be too low aoi they must not be too small since small beets are not profitable it must not hate hano a divided tap root or large side roots since the richest part of the beet is in the lower part of the root it follows that a mother beet must not be slim with a long slowly tapering root that grows deep 15 1 into the ground as such roots are sure to break in bar harvesting Nesting leaving the best part below ground the beets must grow entirely be low ground as the part that grows above must be cut off and wasted in topping |