The Delta independent., 1899-07-07
ezr Be-. Work in Hlcnic.n,


!. a ~ through the beet territory
edj1psl TO this city finds beet farmers
bus, u the crop. In few cases the
land 6being prepared for second seed
ing. th06rs, having been planted too
deep tGkerminaie with the backward
cold ec5nS weather. Seed put in 10 the
depeh Ealf an inch even now would
not - bng in coming 10 the surface.
snd . ale extra cultivation and care
woos4 Bs,le the crop right along.
In uny places bioc,.ing and Thinning
has ~ cou,nepccd while in other
sevtiq culiivators are just being
Il hing fusmess will dnd ono Of
. ~ r. DcYn thiexa 10 d eiGht sad
to do witA tic tonnage ard c<t Of
prniuctioa. ae careless man may NO
along. aud without aiming to do wrong
may perhsps destroy forty or fifty plants
in oEe row that careful aud pains
takin uIan Gill save
Say man will have twenty beets cut
ou, of his row. by way u, illustration.
The b-eis IN average two pounds would
he forty pon1ds TO the row; tw-niy
rows To the acre would he 500 pounds.
II perhaps cos; little more to bunch
Sos. ~, still IL pays 10 so SLOW in bunch
trr.
L. the thicl place comes the thinning
This Is aleo Ii2rticular point in the
operation. II one tri,s to use children
,nst are too small tiey viil pull up
more b--is and do more damage in
field than a person can realize. 1t viii
he found that boys and giris averaging
from Thirteen TO eighteen years of age
are best and most rsrtirular about their
work. In conneciion vi n this you will
ind that 1t raNcs quite difference il
the cost of thinning and usrGiut IL the
b' els are l-fi nine inches sIart us
Twelve. as the closer the br-s are lrft
to-rlher the more II costs 80 ihin thea.
Also the bunches beng left small has "a
rr-a, deal 20 do with thr expense of
thinning. II is best to ALWAYS have the
bunct IS msde as s.call Hs Possible.
Then. atssip, every year the chiiuren
work they get more dsx,erous at their
and can src',n'pl,sh r,nrs aud do the
work much better, 40 that there eau be
:. great reduction made the cust per
acre in THE way.
A. ., hss-inr. Tie distance you leave
your h.esr ~rari IN the roEs. aad the
,,,s,an,e tho rovs are apart alSp cuts a
v-ty itainrisnt figure. as one has ,u hoe
i,.iu-ru each beet. IL the be-;s ar.
twelve inches arrrt you do not have To
ns- ,h- care In hocing that you do 't
they are only Mise inches apart. II the
rows are twenty inches apart there are
not - many rows in an acre as IL they
were orly eighteen inches apart II
takes = ne~ man good many daNs
t,rf,'r- lie IAN dn ~ much hoe,rg as an
older hand. Consequently. when the
'eis becssre more gene al crop. w
hsve N" sl,ubt that the -xJ-. sc will lie
cut dp~n = great dad by men and
chilir-u esrrs'Uing uioro .d-p' IN the
wurs. Then thew 10 !. widr ditFeicuc-
ia uIinissu. - ~~ii s~ in c,p-i. sb rut how
many tsass the hre,s .h. asld b- Lv-,i.
and the arpsh they shoaid he l.-,i.
Nebrssoo osa and women hoe ~rh
short honossa hoss and just stir the
ground oAo1ooW. ! believe in deep hoe
ing as4 - a0ohss Il times must be
dssStmeosa - the sc.son. The ssgar
bret rstto6essa essliv alton In order
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