14 AGRICULTURAL OBSERVATIONS ON TRUCKEE-CARSON PROJECT. 



plowed alfalfa lands, as the imdecayed roots and crowns of the 

 alfalfa seriously interfere with the proper seeding and cultivation of 

 the beets. It is therefore usuallv advisable to ffrow some intervening 

 crop, such as potatoes, between alfalfa and sugar beets. AMierever 

 possible, land that is to be used for sugar beets should be plowed the 

 previous autumn and before the beets are planted the land should be 

 thoroughly irrigated and worked into a fine tilth. This will not 

 onl}' insure a more uniform germination of the seed, but will also 

 make the first cultivation and hand weeding much easier. 



Table V presents the results of analyses of sugar beets made during 

 the four vears 1907 to 1910, inclusive. In 1907 and 1908 the beets 

 analyzed were rather small, which probably partly accounts for the 

 higher sugar content shown for those years. The analyses in 1907 

 and 1908 were made by the United States Department of Agi-icul- 

 ture; those in 1909 and 1910 by Prof. Sanford Dinsmore, of the 

 University of Nevada. Accurate yields of beets in tons per acre have 

 not been obtained. 



Table Y. — Analyses of suriar hcefs groirn on fJir Truckec-Caison Experiment 



Farm. 1901 to 1910. incJiisive. 



Year. 



Number of 

 samples. 



Type of soil. 



1907 

 1908 



1909 

 1910 



18 



21 



21 



34 



7 



8 



6 



1.3 



3 



Adobe 



Sandy 



AH types 



New land 



Gardens and alfalfa land 



Stillwater and Douglass districts. 



Unknown 



Miscellaneous 



STic;ar in 

 juice. 



Per cent. 

 21.55 

 18.2 

 20.0 

 16.26 

 15.8 

 16.95 

 17.1 

 15.74 

 17.0 



Sugar in 

 beet. 



Per cent. 



15.5 



15.0 



16.1 



16.4 



14.93 



16.11 



Purity. 



Per cent. 



87.3 



87.8 



89.95 



80.0 



80.9 



86.4 



89.78 



81.8 



87.5 



VEGETABLES. 



Most of the common vegetables are so easily grown that every 

 farmer should have a garden large enough to supplj' his family 

 throughout the season. On account of the distance to large markets, 

 market gardening on a large scale is not likely to be profitable, except 

 possibly with potatoes and onions. 



The following vegetables are the kinds most easily grown : Water- 

 melons, muskmelons, squashes, pumpkins, cucumbers, tomatoes, tur- 

 nips, carrots, table beets, radishes, lettuce, kohl-rabi, onions, potatoes, 

 egg-plant, wonderberries, and garden huckleberries. 



The reports of the vegetables that follow are from results obtained 

 at the Truckee-Carson Experiment Farm. 



water:melons. 



"Watermelons are easy to grow and are very productive on the 

 sandy soils of the project. On the experiment farm 12,101 pounds of 

 marketable melons were harvested from one-seventh of an acre. At 



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