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SUGAR-BEET SEED 



has planted during the past 25 years produced from 

 their vaults almost instantly the complete detailed 

 record and the photograph of 

 every number of mother beet 



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called for. 



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a 3 PLANTING AND CULTIVATING 



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SELECTED "MOTHER BEETS" 





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g 3 & Still handled carefully to avoid 



E o o injury, the "mother beets" are con- 



| veyed to the fields, where they are 



% % planted by hand 3X3 feet, each 



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o .2 having an area of 9 square feet 



j from which to draw its susten- 



p ance. That they need all this 

 space can be seen from the accom- 



Tg panying illustration, reproduced 



| from Dr. Lewis S. Ware's "Sugar 



I Beet Seed." 



| The radicles of a "mother beet " 



5 frequently extend for a distance 



g of three feet in every direction 



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and thus when planted only three 



slf. 



15 i" 



feet apart, the roots interlace and 



