PLATE VII. Top, an alkali spot, showing a soil condition unfavorable 

 to sugar-beets; center, a full crop of alfalfa being plowed under to pre- 

 pare the land for sugar-beets ; usually corn or potatoes follows alfalfa 

 a year before beets are planted ; below, plowing beet land, Colorado. 

 (Photo L. A. Moorhouse.) 



