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Plate No. VI shows a lesson in distance apart of planting the beets. Beet number 

 one grew in soil where the head had an abundance of room in which to develop, as did 

 also beets niunbers two and three, while number four is a normal beet, growing in 

 properly spaced rows, with near neighbors on either side. 



The following are the weights of beet number one: leaves, 30i4 ounces; head or top 

 of beet, 26 ounces; trimmed beet, or the portion which would be received at the factory, 

 28y2 ounces. It will be seen that over two-thirds of the growth of this particular plant 

 is not merchantable beet. Beets two and three indicate the amount of waste where 

 beets are grown on hard soil and project a considerable distance out of the ground. 



The position of the lower knife in beet number two, and the knife on three, indicates 

 the line of demarkation which separates the portion growing above the ground from 

 that below, and according to instructions from factory men, is the place at which the 

 beet should be trimmed. Beet four is a typical beet, having three and one-half ounces 

 of head and thirty-two ounces of merchantable beet. 



