New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-06-01

. ponds first of all pom the soil, but CHIEF
II upon the cultivation which the farme
q gives. Therefore, in your work thi
year with this seed, do notendeavor to get;
4 large tonnage, but follow the Instruction
carefully so as to get the best beets.
d Analysis will be made Of all these beets
& and those having the largest amount o
sugar are the most valuable for suga
making. In usiug this seed make a Sc
4 lection of your best soil adapted to thi.
work, which can be described as follows
I A mild, moist, loamy soil with a gooe
] quantity of sand in it, not swampy, but
rather lying high, well drained, ane
i which has yielded crop Of potatoes o.
corn or some grain. 1t is best to use
land which has been cultivated during
the past three years at least; older lano
/ than that will be equally good. Do moi
In any case plant the seed upon new lane
which has not yet raised a crop. If you
have fall ploWed land which you have
worked over this year it is best to use
that. Do not under any condition put
stable manure upon this land, as it is a
mistaken idea of our farmers that highly
fortified land is necessary. For sugar
beets you want land that has not yet
been fortified atall. Land which has
been plowed deep, say from nine to ten
inches, is best, and it will certainly pay
you, If you have such deep land, to pre-
pare some. However, good beets have
been grown during the past year upon
land which has not been plowed SO
deeply.
After having selected land as described
above, get it in a fine condition by har-
rowing, or as this seed will plant but a
small strip of land, you might be able
to spade it so that it will be in the very
best condition, that is, where all the
Jumps are broken up and the bed is in
the condition Of a garden patch. Do not
plant the seed, unless it should turn
quite warm, much,if any, before the 18th
of May, OF at the time it would be pro-
per for you to plant corn. The day up
on which you put the bed in its final fine
condition, plant the seed in rows eigh-
teen TO tWenty-four inches apart, the
closer the better, and if the land is moist
to a depth Of one-half inch; if the soil
has become dry, put the seed in about
ten inches deep. Plant the leets on a
level, not in ridges, and cover. If the
seed is planted too deep it will not
sprout as we'll. Plant at the rate of
twenty pounds to the acre. Either drop
the seeds in the rows by hand or drill it
in as freely as it will run. When the
plants get to a height of about four
inches thin out with hoe or by wedding
to the distance Of four to six inches in
the row, and then by hand wedding thin
out all Of the plants in each hill except
ing the one strongest plant SO that there
shall be left one plant to every four OF
five or six inches. This, in case the sol
is inclined to be heavy; if the soil is very
light they can be thinned out to dis.
lance of eight to ten inches, that is, one
plant every eight to ten inches in row
Cultivate the soil very frequently SC
as to keep clean from weeds, and wher
the plants get to such height, and the
leaves become SO large that further cult
walton might injure or break the leaves
hill up around each plant and cease al
cultivation. Direct tests by government
stations in Europe and the best indiyid
ual seed growers show that the amount
Ct sugar In the beet is dependent after
the soil, climate and temperature. upon
the amount of cultivation given, The
more cultivation the richer the beets il
sugar, the better the yield, the more uni
form the size Of the beets and the better
the crop for sugar making purposes il
every way.
The value Of a sugar beet for suga
making purposes depends upon The
amount Of sugar it contains. Any es
| tablished factory would contract to bu,
beets at a minimum price Of 81 per tol
if they were fit for making sugar, and i
the beets should contain as much a
twenty per cent sugar they could affore
to pay in the neighborhood of S. per ton
Every hours cultivation given the beet
after they have sprouted and are up
means hundred fold yield in the re