The Holly chieftain., 1900-05-04
Sugar seef Notes.

Beet rOot Cuiture TeVOluUl0nlze0 une
whole Of the agricultural system on
the continent OF Europe. and brought
out the wealth OF the soil to the high
est value and perfection. 1t can do
~ much for the United States, and
Gill.
One OF the experiments to be tried
bv the Michigan Sugar Beet station
will be that Of transplantlng beets by
rHchinery. II this can be successful
ly accomplished it will do much to re.
duce the expense of the crop, as it will
| practically do away with thinning
and spacing. We believe IL can be ac-
complished
s'The sugar beet crop will do much
toward the solution OF the question Of
making all lands more productive.
Tpis will bring about the more liberal
use OF farm manures, rotation of crops
and practice of more thorough culti-
walton. When crops are judiciously
rotated. excessive losses of nitrogen
and humus are prevented, and the
evils of one-crop system avoided.
On many farms weeds have been one
Of the causes Of decline of fertility.
One of the satisfying conditions Of the
sugar beet culture is that you are each
year driving the weeds of your farm.
With the grain crop You harvest
weeds and grain together, while with
the beet crop the weeds are left out OF
the race long before the harvest. The
weeds are left to die by the roadside,
and in the loss Of this constant COM
panion you never shed tear.-Ox-
nard California; Courier.
Farmers having been DELAYED In
their farm work are putting in time
IL hauling beet pulp from the refuse
piles at the factories and storing it on
tpeir farms for spring feeding Of stock.
"a visit at the factories at any time
will find number of wagons backed
up to the pile being loaded. Some
farmers claim that the pulp is more
valuable for feeding now than when
freshly made, having become soured,
the same as sliced feed. Many farm
ers in this section will. during the
fall, make preparations for storing the
pulp during the winter in order to do
away with the hauling it in the spring.
The pulp is fed generally to milch
cows and to stock being made ready
for the market. The farmers In the
vicinity OF Pekin, ILL., and st. Louis
Park, Minn., realize the value OF the
pulp to such an extent that when the
factories at those places closed the
spulp was all gone.--Bay City Sugar
Beet.
:. MeSsrs. Winterhalter and Timothy
of the American Beet Sugar company.
were in this section last week visiting
and examining the beet fields. They
report that a major portion of the
acreage is now planted, and some fields
sarc up with a good stand. They found
most of the ground prepared and plan
ted in accordance with the instruc-
tions sent out by the company and on
such land there is every prospect for q
first class stand. But there are some
who have not needed the advice Of ex-
perieneed men in the preparation of
their land and they might as well
plant it to cane as that is what they
will raise next fall when they find
their sugar beet venture has been a
failure DIR. Winterhalter wishes to
impress firmly upon the minds OF all
that the factory willbe ready to begin
operations on October lst, notwith-
standing reports to the contrary which
have eliminated from some mysterious
source and been ciculated with evi-
dent intent to injure the promoters
sof this grand enterprise.