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is excellent if you have it, but it should be well rotted and 

 evenly spread over the field. The purchase of com- 

 mercial fertilizers is made to some extent but the cost of 

 the product has led to its being slowly adopted. It will 

 hardly get any lower in price and if you have no fertilizer 

 of any kind it will probably be best if a small amount is 

 used. If any other method of fertilizing is available by 

 all means use that. 



The rotation of the crops will be advantageous for it 

 will give the land a rest each season. The necessities 

 of the various plants are different. By rotating corn, 

 wheat and oats after a crop of beets an increase in all the 

 crops will be found. Some farmers find it profitable to 

 rotate a crop of potatoes with the small grains. For the 

 past ioo years the farmers of France have raised sugar 

 beets and rotated their crops in the above manner and 

 they have succeeded in building up the once barren 

 wastes of France into the most productive areas in the 

 world. The reason given for this is the thorough 

 cultivation demanded by beets. And then almost uncon- 

 sciously the same methods are adopted in the farming of 

 other crops, to the added profit and advantage of the 

 grower. 



The pulp resulting from the extraction of the beet 

 sugar possesses great feeding values for stock and in 

 almost all cases it is hauled off by the farmers as soon 

 as it is thrown out at the factory. 



