34 BULLETIN 760, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Factory methods can not always be followed in producing a crop of 
sugar beets or any other crop. In districts where the weather condi- 
tions do not interfere seriously with field operations, the plowing, 
Fie. 23.—Weighing sugar beets at point of delivery. 
harrowing, etc., may be done according to a previously planned 
schedule, but even in such cases variations in field practice are bound 
to exist. Some of these features are illustrated in Tables X XI, XXII, 
Fig. 24.—Delivering sugar beets to cars at a typical loading station. 
and XXIII, tabulated from the records of 10 selected farms from 
each district. 
