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that excessive application will not increase the yield in the 

 same proportion. ***** 



* * * * "In speaking of the purely agricultural 

 part of the work of sugar beet culture, I will only point out 

 the importance, the necessity oi deep cultivation, and though 

 the subsoil, according to its character, need not always be 

 turned up, it must be pulverized and drained as well as 

 possible — an axiom which cultivation by steam has fixed 

 beyond a doubt." ***** 



" I think I can not better close this short consideration of 

 the most important points in the development of the beet,, 

 than by giving the most important rules in a brief and 

 concise form : 



1. Be exceedingly careful in choosing your land and your 

 seed. 



2. Spare no pains in applying the manure. For this pur- 

 ])ose take into consideration, not only the debtor and credit 

 sides of the yield of the field, but also the compensation that 

 the ground requires for the constituents removed by the 

 harvest, and their proper return in manure. 



3. A rotation of crops must be observed, and such fields 

 kept out of the number used for beets, which show their un- 

 suitableness for beet culture. 



4. Beet culture must not be on too large a scale, when one 

 wishes larger harvests and good beets, and larger lather 

 than smaller harvests of grain, than he obtained before 

 going into the beet culture. 



5. The preparation of the soil must take place at the 

 proper time, in a proper way, and with proper tools. 



G. The seed should be sown as early as the state of the 

 ground and the climate will allow. 



7. Be not too tardy in pulling up the beets. 



8. The lioc siiuuld be used as often and as much as possi- 

 ble. 



9. The harvest must not be put off. * * * 



