Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-07-11
CULTIVATE! CULTIVATE
In Order to Kill the Wire and Cut
Worm-Let the Beet Get
Deep Root.
FINE PIECES OF HEETS SEEN
This,Season IN Advance of Last-Thin-
ming and Hoeing Now Nearly Done
Keep After the Weeds

This is fine growing weather, and
the beets in most instances are doing
finely as we'll as other crops. Don't
put off hoeing, but get right after it
before the leaves get so large that
they will hide some OF the weeds
You can hoe and kill weeds easily if
they are not more than three or four
inches high, bur if left a few days
and they get from eight to twelve
inches high, it means that you will
have TO pull them and shake the dirt
from the roots if you kill them and
then they will be in the row to clog
your cultivator.
Don't neglect the hoeing, as you
can do it much cheaper now and save
all the plant food in your soil for the
beets instead of having it go into
large weeds to clog the cultivator and
make you angry Cultivate deep now,
as II will not harm the vigorous,
growing, young plants very much If
you do prunc few side roots, but
will have tendency To make the
plant go down deeper i'm the soil to
throw out its side lateras which is
just what we want the beet to do.
Then, later in the season We will cul-
tivate shailower and form a good dirt
mulch above the roots which pre-
serve The moisture and keeps the
bulb growing until harvest time
The wire and cut worms have done
some damage and in such cases the
only way we know to check them
some is to cultivate deep and often.
Il seems to cause the worms to go
down in the soil deeper and also
forces the bects to grow faster So
they will soon be out OF the way OF
the worms There are many uneven
stands on the higher land because
there has not been moisture enough
to sprout the seeds and grow the
beets fast
We think that if you keep the cul-
tivator going thoroughly on such land
that as soon as the little bccts get
their roots down deeper, they will be
gin to grow and make up for lost
time. You must not get discouraged
If your beets do not show as good as
some of your ncighbors do now, but
If You stay by them, they may later
in the season pass your neighbors',
but if you get discouraged and neg
lect them, they certainly will not do
their best for you. We have known
the knobs and high places in the field
to have the very largest beets at har-
vest time when at no time during the
season did they have very much top.
The Brown Brothers on Section 80,
Emerson, have one OF the finest and
cvenest piece Of beets we have seen.
The Allen Brothers. on Section %.
Emerson. have some fine beets. Mr.
f. Webb ON Section >, Arcadia, has
a small piece OF bccts that have COM
pletely covered the ground for some
time Our lawyer farmer, Mr. Bahlke
has. as usual. out on his fine farm
a very nice field of beets. Our Mr.
Sexton at Breckenridge reports to
us that Mr. Burch OF Lafayette has
a piece of beets that the leaves COM
pletcly cover the ground now
At this time July 2d) our thinning
is entirely done, so far as we know,
and a large amount of hoeing, while
last year at this time. the thinning
was only about one-half done and
some had just been seeded the last
days OF June
ALMA SUGAR CO.