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THTIVSRSITT 



PART FRST. 

 BEET ROOT CULTURE. 



t. CHOICE OF SOIL. 



The beet may be cultivated in the majority of 

 soils which produce cereals ; but the most favorable 

 places for its culture are vegetable moulds, rather 

 sandy than argillaceous, deep, friable, soft to the 

 touch, warm, active, without stones and permeable. 

 The greater part of the soil of Canada fulfils these 

 conditions and is especially adapted to the culture of 

 the sugar beet ; it is in faci formed of alluvial deposit 

 or of argillaceous and calcarious earths in favorable 

 conditions. 



Alluvion soils are the best, as well from their 

 composition as from the assimilative nature of the 

 matter contained and which furnishes nourishment 

 to the plants. Beets sowed in such soil come up 

 very well : they give the best return to the farm and 

 a substance of superior quality for manufacturing 

 purposes, provided always that these lands are kept 

 properly manured and drained, and are carefully 

 worked and cleaned. The sugar beet cannot succeed 

 in marshy lands, in which it gives only poor crops. 

 if this plant would grow in such soils and give an 



