GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN MICHIGAN AND OHIO. 



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these farms, the sugar beet followed a crop of clover. Occasionally 

 sugar beets follow a crop of alfalfa. (See fig. 4.) 



Fig. 3. — Sugar beets followed corn in the rotation in northwestern Ohio. 



There was a striking similarity in the general arrangement of the 

 cropping systems in all of these districts. It was the general practice 

 to grow beets once in the rotation; this intertilled crop was then 



Fig. 4. — Sugar-beet growing on land that was in alfalfa during the preceding year. 

 Occasionally sugar beets follow a crop of alfalfa. 



changed to another field. Clover was utilized in every district to add 

 nitrogen to the soil and keep up the humus content. Timothy was 

 usually grown with the clover. The major differences noted were 

 the absence of beans in the rotation in Ohio, and the tendency of 



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