TILE IRRIGATION AGE. 



WHAT SUGAR BEETS WILL 

 DO. 



The following by Albert Geberding is 

 from a paper recently read by him before 

 the San Francisco Chit-Chat Club: 



Seventy moderate size factories in Cali- 

 fornia would utilize 500,000 acres of land ; 

 would make annually 7 ; 000, 000 tons of 

 sugar, nearly one-half as much as Ger- 

 many, equal to the product of France, 

 Russia or Austria, and four times as much 

 as the Hawaiian Islands, and a sixth of 

 the entire world's beet sugar output. 



This would mean the annual disburse- 

 ment of $14.000,000 for labor, fuel, etc., 

 and $22,000,000 for beets, or would rep- 

 resent a total investment of over $35,000- 

 000. 



\Ve consume annually 2,500,000 tons of 

 sugar. 



We pay to foreign nations about $120,- 

 000,000 annually for sugar. 



We have the land, we have the climate 

 and we have the brain and sinew to pro- 

 duce all that we require. Germany, 

 France, Russia and Austria have been 

 teaching us for fifty years how to make 

 beet sugar, and have demonstrated that 

 beet sugar pays. 



They have 1245 factories, while we have 

 only eight in the entire United States. 



How much longer will intelligent and 

 enterprising Americans send their good 

 dollars to foreign countries to pay for a 

 a product that might be produced at 

 home? Pacific Rural Press. 



NOT VOUCHED FOR. 



The roots of the alfalfa a Colorado 

 product reach down from seven feet to 

 thirty-eight and one-half miles. 



The market gardeners near Denver hitch 

 up their horses in the morning, fill their 

 wagon beds with Colorado's soil, plant 

 their seed, and with the aid of Colorado 

 sunshine are enabled to supply their cus- 

 tomers in Denver with fresh vegetables 

 upon their arrival two hours later. 



WHAT DID YOU GROW? 



Harvest time is just closing and THE AGE 

 wants to know the result of your work this 

 season so that we may give our readers in 

 general the benefit of your experience. 

 What was the total acreage you cultivated. 

 Give particulars as to each crop and the 

 area it occupied. What was the yield? 

 Make separate statements for the products 

 of farmland orchard. We want irrigators 

 every where to write us briefly by letter or 

 postal card in reply to these inquiries and 

 this will enable us to compile facts of great 

 importance to all. It is such practical facts 

 from practical men on topics of direct and 

 timely interest that we are always eager to 

 obtain. Don't wait until you have gath- 

 ered all your crops. Write now, you can 

 write again later. 



TOO MUCH WATER. 



Great injury has been done everywhere 

 by the use of too much water. The quan- 

 tity that has been available under the lib- 

 eral policy of some companies, permitting 

 everybody to use practically all they have 

 cared to, has proven an injury rather 

 than a benefit, and the best results have 

 been obtained by those whose experience 

 has led them to use water cautiously and 

 more intelligently ; and a great deal de- 

 pends upon the cultivation. The proper 

 choosing of plants, cultivating when the 

 soil is just in the proper state to prevent 

 clods, harrowing the ground if heavy and 

 rolling if it is light to make a better seed 

 bed and to promote capillary attraction, 

 clean and frequent cultivation. Use less 

 water and cultivate more. 



ANTIDOTES FOR ALKALI 



There are antidotes for all the different 

 forms of alkali. The neutral alkaline 

 salts, common salt, Glauber's salt,sulphate 

 of potassium, etc., are only injurious when 

 present in large quantities and must be 

 washed or drained from the soil. The 

 soluble earthy and metallic sulphates and 

 chlorides such as Epsom salts, bit tern } 



