Campbell's 1902 Soil Culture Manual. 



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SUGAR BEETS. 



The cultivation of the sugar beet is worthy of considerable attention 

 among the farmers, outside of the question of growing them for the sugar 

 factory. With the careful preparation of the soil, which should differ in 

 only one respect from that which we have outlined for other crops, and 



Cut No. 18. 



that is deeper plowing, but the same care taken in thorough pulverizing, 

 and in the more arid portion thorough packing, large yields may be secured. 

 Cut No. 12 shows a field of sugar beets grown at Lisbon, North Dakota, on 

 the grounds of the Soldiers Home, under the direction of Colonel Mcllvaine, 

 in 1897, the second year's experiment on the same ground, under the 

 so-called Campbell Method of Soil Culture. The phenomenal yield of 

 J:6,000 pounds per acre was secured, or 23 tons. It may be readily seen 

 from this illustration the vast amount of valuable feed that can b€ raised 



