The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-06-20

tons now, the possible four-foot beets
of the future might run fifty tons
per acre.
Flowing -Four Feet Deep
No. pillow has ever been invented
that will pillow more than thirty
inches deep, but for the past two
years this paper has advocated build
ing soil pulYerizer that will work
its way thru field like a dredge,
carving off the soil from a perpen-
dicular bank and throwing it in posi-
ton again to the rear. Such ma
chine, operated very slowly and
carving a trench or furrow six feet
wide and four feet deep would not
operate in soils such as we have in
,ingham county where rocks and
gravel may be encountered anywhere,
but 1t would operate in the deep
silt soil of the old lake bed, and
land once, pulverized by such ma
chine would be in condition for the
growth sOf sugar beets four feet long.
Sugar beets grow best where irri-
cation is perfect, and no water ever
allowed to cover the surface of the
rows in which they grow. The
farms on the deep wash soil of the
Dubois project can be watered the
most perfect in the world, and so
far as the effect of irrigation goes,
no farms anywhere could be ex-
pected to compete with them.
Five Other ADVANTAGES
We predict for the future Of the
beet sugar industry five other ad-
vantages that can be applied alike
to the Dubois project and any other
lands. Thinning, pulling and top
ping are the very heavy and expen-
sive parts of production. 1t is Gus
tomary to plant seed lavishly and
then cut out and pull out all that
are not needed to make a good stand.
We predict that more perfect seed
will be bred up, and as the amount
of seed planted is reduced, the cost
of thinning will be reduced accord
ingly. When men realize the ad-
vantage of this kind of improve
ment, it will be pushed to the limit,
and only SO many seeds will be
drilled in as are wanted for growth
of beets. When that point Of ex-
cellence is reached in seed and soil
preparation, beet thinning will be
entirely eliminated. Farmers on the
Dubois project will have the greatest
incentive of any on earth to push
those things to perfection, and we
predict that they will lead.
Beet Fuller and Topper
Machines to pull beets and top
them will be perfected. They are
not commercial success yet, but
part of the trouble lies in the fact
that the ground is not well prepared,
the beets are of all shapes and sizes,
and it is hard to make machine
that will adapt it's energies to all
the changes. The Dubois project
with it's other perfect conditions will
have the best chance to utilize the
beet puller, and when they get one
that will pull beets of a given size,
they can soon build the machines
that will pull the larger beets to
be expected from the deep blowing
VIC nave DCCh lClllu6 dUOul.
Beet topping is another source of
trouble, and the machine of the fu-
ture will top the beets as it pulls
them, carry the tops out to hopper
on one side and the beets out to a
hopper on the other side, and dump
them in piles as the modern binder
dumps the sheaves of grain
-Four Lines of Perfection
When the perfect seeds are used,
only q fraction of the amount of seed
will be needed that is now used.
The cost of seed is not large per
acre, but the cost of thinning is
large, and both items will work to-
gether to lure men on to the use of
perfect seed, perfect preparation of
soil and perfect machinery for plant
ing. -.-.
Making Project Famous
Under the system proposed, all
beet tops will be preserved in the