of lands in Colorado and the cutting up of the land into smaller 

 Sugar-Bee'ts f racts - And no wonder ! The writer knows of several 

 - instances where the price of the land at more than $100 

 per acre has been cleared in one season. 



To give these kinds of returns the land must be in 

 good condition from previous growing of alfalfa on the 

 land or using good manures. The best yields are obtained 

 by a combination of both. When the land plays out by 

 too long growing of sugar-beets we can, of course, bring it 

 back in shape again by alfalfa in a few years. But the 

 trouble is that it takes two or three years for alfalfa to 

 become well established, and when once established it 

 hardly pays to plow it up right away. It is very de- 

 sirable, then, that the land be kept in good condition for 

 the production of paying crops of sugar-beets as long as 

 possible. This is made more necessary by the fact also 

 that many farmers have gone into debt for the land and 

 want to pay out as quickly as possible. And to do this 

 there is no surer crop than the sugar-beet if the yield can 

 be kept up. Alfalfa, of course, will make the land as good 

 as ever again, but it will take several years to do that. 

 Good manures have also proved to have wonderful effects 

 in increasing the yield of our soils. But this fact has 

 also been discovered by others, so that often it is impossible 

 to get, unless the farmer is in shape to feed cattle or sheep 

 on his own farm, and this often is not possible. Even 

 those that are able to secure a quantity of manure, often 

 can not get enough to cover all the land they would like 

 to put in beets. Thus the farmer is often "up against it" 

 and would use commercial fertilizers if he were sure what 

 kind would do any good. 



What Elements a Soil Needs to Grow Crops. 



Long ago science found out that only three or four 

 elements in the soil were used to such an extent by crops 

 that it would ever be necessary to replace them to keep 

 the soil from running out. Those elements are Nitrogen, 

 Potash, Phosphoric Acid and Lime. Sometimes one or 

 more of these things are naturally absent in the soil, or may 

 be in such shape that plants cannot easily use it or get 

 it. When such is the case, crops are increased by adding 



