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In connection with this and some other tests, there is a chance 
to compare the results of planting with a hand planter and a horse 
planter. Though we have a good hand planter, yet on the whole 
the horse planter, which with us is an ordinary wheat drill, has 
given the better stand and the larger weight of crop. 
6. Different Depths of Planting. 
The following tests were made with the grain drill, set to plant 
as nearly as possible at the desired depths. 
Row. 
Depth of 
planting. 
Number beets 
per row. 
1 
Weight of crop' 
per row. i 
Sugar in beet. 
Purity. 
57-68 
3^ inch 
360 
313 
15.51 
76.1 
U7-U9 
“ “ 
233 
237 
16.10 
79.0 
69-80 
1 inch 
358 
281 
17.00 
78.7 
150-152 
“ “ 
239 
284 
15.78 
79.6 
81-92 
1!4 inches 
315 
279 
17.31 
80.0 
153-155 
“ 
270 
313 
16 76 
85.0 
With the first lot, rows 57-92, sown May 11, there is not much 
difference, but this slight difference both in stand and yield is in 
favor of the shallow planting. But it should be remembered that 
this seed was put into thoroughly damp, freshly plowed ground 
that was over a damp, almost wet, subsoil. The analysis is enough 
in favor of the deeper plowing to make the available sugar per acre 
the same for all three depths of planting. 
At the later planting. May 27, rows 147-155, the ground was 
freshly plowed but had dried out considerably since May 11. In 
this test the stand, yield and quality are all in favor of the deepest 
planting, amounting in the comf)arison of the half inch with the one 
and a half inch to more than a third of the crop. 
7. Transplanting Beets. 
Some beet seed was sown in the greenhouse April 20 and the 
young beets transplanted to freshly plowed ground May 10. The 
rows were 18 inches apart and the beets 9 inches apart in the row. 
In the first part of the rows about three fourths of the beets lived, 
but less than half of them in the rest of the rows, making an aver- 
age of about one beet to each two square feet. The growth of the 
beets was satisfactory so far as weight was concerned. They 
averaged a little over one and a half f)ounds each, or 16.8 tons per 
acre. Not a single tap root grew in the whole four hundred beets ; 
they were a mass of fibrous roots that lost at least a fifth in trim- 
ming. Their quality was the lowest of all the beets planted early 
in May, being 14.44 sugar and 74.3 purity. 
