Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-07-04
PROFIT BY EXPERIENCE
If We Wish the Best Success in
the Future, we Must Profit
by Past Experience.
SAVE THE LARGEST PLANTS
Begin Preparing Your Beet Land For
Next Season BY Giving 1t Your
Best Attention Now.

The following article from the Alma
Sugar Co., was written for our issue Of
June rs, but was unavoidably delayed
II will make interesting reading at the
present time.
June 18th, 1906.
We have been having fine growing
weather for everything Weeds and
grass grow this showery weather just
as fast as the crop, and we must be
on the alert with our cultivators to
keep them in check. We find many
pieces of beets that have been sown
on what people call clover sod, but
which in fact had plenty of June grass
in with the clover and such land is
getting pretty grassy. Other pieces
of bects have been sown on Oat and
wheat stubble ground full of June
grass which makes them difficult TO
get the grass out. From what we
have seen this spring, we think it adj
visable to SOW beets only aftcr-a good,
cultivated crop such as corn, beans or
potatoes We find where corn, beans
or potatoes were ON the ground last
year and the crop had good cultiva-
tion that such pieces of bects
are the best and people are
having no trouble i'm taking
care OF thcm for the laborcrs are
ready md i'm fact seek out the best
pieces ia the neighborhood II you
have a tough June grass piece for
beets, you will have to pay two prices
to get your beets thinned or else
wait until all of your ncighhors are
through and by that time they will
be so grassy and bad that it will cost
you two prices anyway
We must remember and profit by
past experience if we wish to make
the best possible success in the future
Begin preparing your beet land for
next season now by giving your corn,
beans and potatoes the very best of
cultivation and care which will make
them an extra good crop and at the
same time prepare some land for
beets next season which can be taken
care of very easily and you will have
no trouble in securing help for the
same. Beets that have been thinned,
and Strengthened up should be cult
waited right away and we should do
our deep cultivation now while the
plants are young and vigorous, for
if we prune a few side roots now
while the beets are growing very fast,
they will soon repair the damage by
roofing down deeper in the soil and
sending out their side feeders which
is just what we wish them TO do. for
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root growth deeper in the soil which
enables them to withstand the dry
weather that we some times get
July and August and they
will develope larger bulbs than they
otherwise would have done if we had
cultivated shallow all the season.
If you are little short of help
and your beets are getting somewhat
large. go right ahead and block them
for after they are blocked, they will
not harm for some time, if you will
only be careful when they are thinned
and save the largest and best plants
in the block The largest plant Of a
block always has the longest and
deepest roots for it has gone down to
get plant food away from the small
plants which have their roots near
the surface. BY this way, you will
always get the strongest plant, where
as ii they are thinned small, you are
just as liable to leave the weakly as
the strong plant
ALMA SUGAR COMPANY.