CHAPTER V 

 SOILS 



SUCCESSFUL sugar-beet production, as well as every other 

 phase of agriculture, is dependent on the intelligent han- 

 dling of the soil. All farm profits ultimately go back to the 

 land. Live-stock, important as it is, merely furnishes a 

 means of marketing what the soil produces. Every effort 

 should be made to understand the needs of the soil in 

 order that it may be made to yield bounteously and 

 permanently. 



RELATION OF SOIL TO BEET-CULTURE 



Sugar-beets are not so sensitive as to require a special 

 kind of soil. They will grow on any good agricultural 

 land on which the ordinary field crops thrive. As with 

 other crops, however, beets do better on some soils than 

 on others. This is reflected much more in the yield than 

 in the quality of beets. Wiley, 1 after making a rather 

 exhaustive study of beets raised on soils in many parts 

 of the United States, reports : 



1 Wiley, H. W., U. S. Dept. of Agr., Bur. of Chem. Bui No. 96, 

 p. 34. 



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