220 SUGAR BEET SEED. 



as being or forming an important departure from reg- 

 ular methods. 



Beets from Sectional Vertical Slices. 



A new departure has recently been made, which is, 

 that instead of using the bud root for seed, the beet is 

 sliced vertically, and each slice planted separately. 

 These will yield seed, as do so many separate mothers, 

 as many as twenty new seed-forming centres being 

 thus obtained from one beet root. It must not be for- 

 gotten that these slices must undergo considerable 

 special attention in a greenhouse before being planted 

 in the open field. It is important to dress the wound 

 with an antiseptic of some kind, or with wood charcoal 

 powder, or even chloride of mercury may give satis- 

 factory results. This precaution does not appear nec- 

 essary when the vertical sections are limited to four; 

 then the planting should be just as is customary for 

 mothers in seed production, the distance between rows 

 being rather closer. These slices must, in some way, 

 be held up in a vertical position, otherwise the wind 

 would blow them over. 



