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The ideal sugar beet ground is a sandy loam, porous, 
warm and easy to cultivate. Topographically, the land 
;hould be smooth and nearly level, the better to facilitate 
roper irrigation. 
pJ^^^An experiment made in 1891, would seem to indicate 
ordinary season, one irrigation during the grow- 
that is sufficient to produce the best results, both as to 
ing seasoi^H^ acre an d saccharine matter contained, 
tonnage pen 
TABLE. 
No. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
Name. 
Area. 
Culti¬ 
vated. 
3 times 
Irri¬ 
gat’d. 
Tons 
per A. 
Sugar 
per ct. 
Vilmorin 
Purity, 
C’oef. 
80.5 
81.3 
79.5 
76.0 
irri- 
Though it is quite generally understood tl ^jL come ap . 
gated beet is the best and most profitable, it has b*L J 
parent, not only here, but in the practical work in UW 
California, that unless irrigation and cultivation aie% 
on with a careful relative system, there will always be W 
of harmony between the crop and its environment, m 
will prevent the assimilation of the maximum amou 
saccharine matter. 
It will be readily understood, that hilly or uneven 
cannot be made to produce equally good results on all 
tions from the fact that on hillsides, water will run too 
to soak in well, while if there be low places, here, the v 
will stand, to the total ruin of the crop. _ , 
The season for planting at this Station extends i i 
March 20th to June 20th and for harvesting from Augu ?t 
15th till November 15th. It is this wide range of the planL. j 
in<r and harvesting season that, with suitable sou and tac ». 
ities for proper irrigation, makes the Arkansas V alley espe- ^ 
cially adapted to beet raising for .profit. 
A number of experiments have been tried for determin 
ing the amount of seed to be sown per acre, depth of plant¬ 
ing proper space between rows, methods of irrigation, etc. 
& For field cultivation, the conclusion from many tnals, 
both here and elsewhere, is that not less than 1 poun s o 
seed should be sown per acre. It is much better to thin than 
t0 P AsTdept'h of planting, our best results have been ob¬ 
tained from planting from two to three inches deep. In 
very shallow planting, seed frequently becomes too dry tor 
o-ermination and in extremely deep planting, there may be 
