PLATES 



FACING PAGE 



I. A good field of sugar-beets . . . Frontispiece 



II. John Taylor 16 



III. E. H. Dyer 18 



IV. Mature beet plant ; cross and longitudinal sections 24 

 V. Houses for labor ; pumping irrigation water . . 46 



VI. Soils for beets 58 



VII. Soils ; alfalfa plowed under ; plowing ... 66 



VIII. Preparation and cultivation of land . . . 108 



IX. Tillage; a good stand of beets . . . .110 



X. Planting; cable machinery; cultivating and 



hoeing 114 



XI. Thinning beets ; cultivating . . . . .118 



XII. Hoeing beets ; irrigating 122 



XIII. Experiment tanks; ditch machine; beets topped 142 



XIV. Beet lifter; topping beets . ' . . . .150 

 XV. Topping ; silo in field ; rack for unloading . . 152 



XVI. Beet dumps . 154 



XVII. Bins in a beet factory 156 



XVIII. Beet dump; sugar factory 158 



XIX. Silo practice 172 



XX. Feeding cows on by-products ; feed yards . .176 

 XXI. Sheep feeding; injury by army-worms; catching 



grasshoppers ....... 180 



XXII. Nematode injury ; beet spot 196 



XXIII. Curly-leaf; rot in storage 200 



XXIV. Well-shaped beets ; poorly shaped ; three types of 



beets 206 



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