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from a very small piece of ground. The question of the manufacture of 

 beet sugar has received no little attention in this country during the past 

 ten years, and considering the wonderful results that have been attained 

 by feeding beet pulp after all the sugar has been extracted, is a strong 

 argument in favor of the growing of these beets by all farmers. To one 

 who has not raised beets or other garden vegetables, except in little plats 

 for domestic use only, it may seem like a very tedious job and quite expen- 

 sive. But this is not true. With a fine toothed cultivator and by drilling 

 the beets in rows 23^ to 3 feet apart, almost the entire work can be done 

 with the horse, requiring a little hand work in thinning. Here, too, some 

 surprising results can be attained. In the extreme northwest portion of 

 Kansas, only 28 miles from the Colorado line, in 1898, we raised as tine 

 beets, parsnips, turnips, carrots, and onions, as any man ever saw on the 

 high level prairie, with very little work, except what was done with the 

 horse and cultivator. The average farmer in that section did not believe 

 it was possible to raise garden vegetables, and little attempt to raise them 

 had been made for some time. 



Sugar beets have been fed to sheep, cattle, and hogs in experiment 

 at many of our agricultural colleges, with other feed, always with good 

 results, especially in feeding sheep. 



That sugar beets may be made to yield enormous crops by the 

 Campbell method of utilizing the rainwaters, is clearly shown by Cut No. 

 12, showing a field of these beets grown on the Soldiers Home grounds at 

 Lisbon, North Dakota, by Col. W. W. McElvaine's diligent efforts in carry- 

 ing out our instructions in 1897, the second year of work at this point. It 

 being one of the five experimental farms that was started by the Northern 

 Pacific Railway in 1896, under our direction. Equal results may be 

 secured on almost any of our level prairies of the semi-arid belt with the 

 same care and attention, not only in sugar beets, but all vegetables. In 

 this work, as in field work, it is not so much the additional or extra 

 work, as it is the care as to time and manner of doing the work. 



GROWING POTATOES. 



The growing of potatoes throughout the semi-arid belt seems gen- 

 erally to be looked upon as too uncertain to even be considered, in spite of 

 the fact that there are many individuals who are raising them and yearly 

 making money. There are instances even in sections of southern Nebraska 

 where they were less favored in 1901 with spring rains than in most any 

 other portion of the state that good crops were grown. In one instance over 



