KLEIN WANZT.EP.F.VEn. KXAFER MANGOLD. 



SOME TYPICAL OREGON SUGAR BEETS. 

 Containing 16 to 20 per cent, sugar, of 82 to 88 purity. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 RECENT LESSONS IN THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. 



COST OF GROWING BEETS. 



More experience was added to the stock of information on this subject presented 

 in Part Three, Chapter IV, but so few farmers keep accurate accounts that even now the 

 data at hand is less than one could wish. We first give two statements prepared for this 

 work and based on actual records kept by men who farm on business principles: 



CALIFORNIA, SAN BENITO COUNTY BY THOMAS FLINT, JR. 



Until 1897 I had no personal experience in cultivating beets for sugar, all of my 

 beet land, about 1200 acres, being leased to tenants. But in '97 I planted 16 acres to beets, 

 and the course pursued was as follows: The land was plowed twice to a depth of 14 

 inches, cultivated and harrowed until thoroughly pulverized, and the seed sowed by drill 

 in rows 20 inches apart. When the beets had grown to have two or three leaves, they 

 were thinned in the rows to about eight inches apart. All weeds were, of course, 

 destroyed during the season by means of cultivators and hoes. In September the beets were 

 plowed out, topped and shipped. I was paid for 457,583 Ibs. of dressed beets, at $4.50 per 

 ton, $915.18, or $57.19 per acre gross. This was an average yield of 14.3 tons per acre, 



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