Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-05-30
CULTIVATE YOUR BETS.
Subduc the Grass and Weeds by
Early Cultivation-Cultivate
Today and Tomorrow.
HAVE YOUR cUlTIVATOR SHARP
Do Not be Afraid of a Little Extra
MuscIe-Don't Let the Cultivator
Stop-Keep up with your Work

We find in many instances our farm
ers are not cHltivating their sugar beets
as quickly and thoroughly as they ought.
Early cultivation kills the weeds when
they are small. hberates plant food for
the growth of little plants fast and fines
the soil so it will work easier, faster and
better. If you neglect cultivation a
little and then it comes rain just as
you get ready and puts you off for a
few days longer, the weeds and grass
will grow so fast that when you do get
to work, the cultivator may clog and
slide over the weeds. which if it does
seems to do them good by stirring the
soil around them and making them
grow the faster Have your cultivator
sharp and in shape to dig up every rod
and foot that you travel over. This
running over the land with the cultiva-
tor in poor shape and not fitted up so it
will dig is time thrown away. While
YOU are at work, have all tools so they
will do business every minute, and if
necessary do not be afraid of putting in
some extra time if it is necessary in
order to keep up with your work.
Where beets are very weedy and grassy
cultivate each row enough times to
thoroughly subdue the same before
thinning. If it is necessary, cultivate
down a row, turn around and come
back right in the same row. This going
one way down row, if i'll bad shape,
may not dig out all the trash, but If
some is left that is partially dug out by
Immediately coming back over the
same before it gets Strengthened mp, you
will generally make a pretty clean
sweep of that row although it may be
in very bad condition when You start to
cultivate. This double cultivation
right at once in beet field will go
much farther towards subduing bad
field of weedy and grassy beets than
can be done any other way that we
know of. Cultivating over field today
and cultivating the opposite way in the
rows over the same tomorrow will not
give you the result that double cultivat-
ing one-half of the field today and then
finishing up the other half tomorrow
will give. A bunch of weeds or grass
partially killed can be finished with less
labor in the next ten minutes than they
can by waiting several hours or day
or two to perform the same.
Sugar beets may be put out on the
best of thoroughly fitted land, but If
YOU neglect the cultivation of the same
early you may not get any larger crop
or even as large as the one who puts
out beets on poorly fitted land but gets
after the cultivation and does it in the
best possible and thorough manner
early. Cultivate today, cultivate to-
morrow and cultivate next week, and if
you have a large amount of beets, don't
let the cultivator stop only for Sundays
and rain storms.
Do not come or write for money
week or two before you are in need of
the same for thinning your beets. We
will try and serve you promptly as pos
sible after you apply, but get your beets
cultivated and commence the thinning
before you ask for any money, for the
better your beets look before we come to
see them, if You are in need of money on
the same, the more sure you will be to
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