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BULLETIN" 720, U. a DEPARTMENT OF AGBICULTURE. 
must be pulled by the contractor, and cleaned of adhering dirt by knocking the beets 
together or otherwise as pulled, and throwing them into piles. The ground on which 
the beets are to be piled must be cleaned off and leveled down by the contractor, 
so that the grower may fork the beets into the wagon free from dirt, rocks, leaves, 
or other trash. 
The beets shall be topped by the contractor in the following manner, to wit, by 
cutting off the tops squarely just below the crown at the base of the bottom leaf. 
Knives shall not be used for lifting beets, but hooks may be used, provided they are 
properly driven into the top of the crown of the beet only. 
All tools for hand work shall be furnished by the grower. 
All cultivating, irrigating, plowing out, and loading shall be done by the grower, 
unless otherwise agreed upon. 
All beets left in the field over night must be protected properly from frost by the 
contractor by covering the piles with beet tops, the tops to be removed by the grower 
before beets are loaded. 
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Fig. 23.— Sugar beets piled at a loading station. Surplus beets are sometimes thrown into large piles at 
the receiving stations, and these are then reloaded when the supply from the field is curtailed by bad 
weather or otherwise. 
The grower reserves the right, in the event the hand work is not done properly or 
with sufficient rapidity by the contractor that the crop would thereby suffer, to 
engage additional help for doing the work as cheaply as practicable under existing 
conditions, and to deduct the expense of the same from this contract, it being agreed 
and understood, however, that in the event of any dispute arising between the grower 
and contractor as to the interpretation of the above rules, as to the manner in which 
the work is being done, or as to the necessity of additional help, the agricultural 
superintendent or field man of the company shall act as referee, and his decision shall 
be final and binding on both the contractor and grower. 
PITTING SUGAR BEETS. 
During the harvest season beets are sometimes taken out much 
more rapidly than they can be received by the sugar company. It 
is therefore the custom to put a portion of the crop in pits during 
this period. Pitting was found to be much more common in the 
