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AGRICULTURE 



country, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, is well adapted to the 

 crop. The soil must be fertile, well drained, and well cultivated. 



r~.~ j The mature beets are dug 



and sent to the factory. There 

 they are cleaned, the juice ex- 

 tracted, and the sugar obtained 

 from it by evaporation. 



Sugar, like cotton, is formed 

 from the carbon of the air; 

 therefore, if the leaves and 

 pulp be returned to the fields 

 or used for stock feed and 

 the manure put on the land, 

 the crop removes little fertil- 

 ity from the soil. 



EXERCISE 



1. Cultivate some specimens 

 of the crop plants mentioned 

 here. Where the climate is too 

 cool for sugar cane, sorghum 

 may thrive. 



2. Compare the sweetness of 

 cane cut from green plants, 

 from those just about to flower, 



A sugar beet root which tested 24 per cent , J , 



sugar. An acre of such beets would yield and from those that have S one 



42,000 ib. of sugar. to seed. 



THE ORCHARD AND ITS CARE 



Our common fruits apple, pear, quince, peach, plum, 



apricot, and cherry all belong to the rose family ; so do 



the strawberry, raspberry, and blackberry. The orange, lemon, 



