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Houses for labor; pumping irrigation water . 
Soils for beets ‘ 
Soils; alfalfa plowed under; alomug 
Preparation and cultivation of land 
Tillage; a good stand of beets P 3 
Planting; cable ee cultivating and 
hoeing 
Thinning beets ; eevee 
Hoeing beets; irrigating . 2 ‘ 
Experiment tanks; ditch stinchitne: beets topped 
Beet lifter; topping beets { 2 , 
Topping; silo in field; rack for igaloading 
Beet dumps . ‘ Z : z 
Bins in a beet factory 
Beet dump; sugar factory 
Silo practice . 
Feeding cows on by-ttoducis: teed ae ‘ 
Sheep feeding; injury by army-worms; catching 
grasshoppers yg x 
Nematode injury; beet ae: 
Curly-leaf; rot in storage 
Well-shaped beets; poorly ahageds Hees Gnes of 
beets . ‘ ‘ : . ‘ ‘ 
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A good field of sugar-beets . . . Frontispiece 
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E. H. Dyer 
‘Mature beet plant; cross cand jongitadinal sectieas 
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