commercial fertilizer are .profitable on sugar beets but that 

 twenty tons of 'barriyiird manure did not increase the crop 

 \for the: cost 1 of hauling and distribution. 



Potash Not Injurious to the Quality of the 

 Beet for Sugar Making 



It is sometimes claimed that potash salts impair the purity 

 of the beet juices and, hence, tend to interfere with the sepa- 

 ration of the sugar in the factory. 



If proper amounts of potash salts of high grade are used 

 at the right time there need be no fear from this source, 

 Very large applications of crude potash salts at planting time 

 might have this effect ; but any soluble salts used at that time 

 would have the same effect. As mentioned above, if crude 

 salts, like Kainit, are used on beet fields it is better to apply 

 them some months in advance of planting. 



The continued use for 15 years of considerable quanti- 

 ties, from 100 to 200 pounds, per acre, each year at the time 

 of planting, of even muriate of potash in addition to acid 

 phosphate and sulphate of ammonia was shown by the Ind- 

 iana Experiment Station to produce beets of higher purity, 

 better form and greater yield than were produced on the 

 plats fertilized with barnyard manure or on those receiving 

 no fertilizer. 



If the right plant focds are used at the right time, in the 

 right proportions, there need be no fear that the increased 

 yield will be at the expense of sugar making value. 



H. A. HUSTON, 

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