Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-02-17

SHIFTLESS AND SLACh FARMERS.
PLEASE DON'T READ.

much the VIII be before the
of those around you have raised that you
not deny the reality of the
They the land renovating crop known agcu
te oh That's e you for have heard that they rob
the soil SO couldn't raise anything afterwards Who said
I've heard lots of people say Yes but did you ask
long they have raised beet or they had ever raised any all or
not? No. didn't Well, why didn't you? Why didn't you nves
tgate little before you home and told neghbor Jones who
had happened write small contract that it would ruin his
land and he fool for raising any such crop and added
beet fool raise beets and ruin farm
and the result such talk by Others scared
neghbo he told the field when he look his
beets that the bad that he couldn't them in Well
Jones fool for listening YOU and sowing his bee but
you foolish for trying influence Jones to not his
beets You ought to have considered it like this:
Every of land put beets dmnhes the number of
for other crops that much and leaves you the market
with less competition which means greater prices for your crops
enough the investigation find them before you try pre-
vent your neighbor from raising sugar beets.
From very carefully gathered statistics period of fifty
Germany and France found that the lands
district OF sugar mills which have been rotated with bee yield
ing from 300 to 1870 cereal crop year than the farms
side OF the limit OF the mill and further the farmers of the
sugar beet territory would double their acreage single
day the mills would accept Of in the face Of the fact that sugar
bees are less price and other crops greater in price than in our
country
You say why German farmer so anxious to increase his
if bees cheaper and other crops greater price than
here Simply because he knows from actual experience that the
ductyene of his farm other crops will be increased 1870 if he
raise all the bees that his farm will allow in his rotation You
might have heard something like this but VERY careful
tell Jones Of it. because YOU thought there might probably
something it. and Jones learned raise beets and increased the
produyeness OF ms am he might up his mortgage some
surplus money and b automobile while YOU would poddng
along in the old just making decent living. You jea
Gus mani Don't You know that II your neghbors all had
money spend You would be much better situated able get
hold Of money much easily than if YOU lived in negbor
hood where your neigfbor all hard up?
The great cry that the Farmer put up
beets hurting the land myth and the people beginning
ind out In Germany from very carefully gathered statistics
comparing the yield of crops territory where be have been
raised the rotation with the crops outside of the sugar beet
territory they find that the raising of sugar bee has benefited the
land 10 such extent that the yield of wheat has been increased 9
bushels yield of bushels per yield of barley SIS
bushels per acre yield Of oats H. bushels and the yield OF
These figures have been picked up carefully by the Germans
that the farmers the scientific agricultural men and everybody all
rotated with sugar beets Do you wonder the German farm
ers eagerness double their sugar beet acreage
There is another farm crop that will permeae the ground
thoroughly with mass OF ous roots as the sugar beet these
rooets will the hardest OF soil ooseng it, and
they vegetable and not woody the roots OF most farm
they decay leaving the hardest of soil pierced with in
Vulnerable little holes which loosen and fill full of vegetable mat
From carefully experiments has developed that
the fine brous rooets from good crop of beets will down
the soil from OF vegetable matter eav
ing of this down deep the soil which induces the rooets
OF other crops down and take the plant food which
has been liberated and made oabe by the vegetable
matter left in the soil from the fine beet roots.
W. T. Wayment, of Warren Weber county, Utah, had 10
acres of land which been producing him % bushels of wheat
acre The same piece OF land was put to years
succession put back wheat again and produced 45 bushels
per Did beets spoil this field? No. but gave it an actua
increase Of 500.
producing bushels of barley per He put this piece of land
years succession and then out to barley again
bushels of 20 bushels
almost 609o
Sugar bees the greatest land renovaor known to good
farming-not clover surpass them.
Dr. Wiley chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture
Washington D. c. that where farmer situated so he can
factory he ought to raise bee and afford to If
he gets price of his labor back and profit from the beets
The beneficial results upon the soil from raising the be will be
big of profit by increasing the yield of each of the other
crops in the rotation
But there is no raising just for the sake of in
creasing if mill for sell
them and get actual cash profit per period of five
years than possibly produced from any other farm crop and
at the the fertility of soil the other crops
in the much larger than before beets raised
This guess work with but actual worked-ou fact
from years expernce growing bee have cleared