Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . ih« The only dis;ui\ :thtai; ? ilns iiiiniiine has is that, in joung beets, theplants are apt to be buried by the knives digging up and displacing the earth. 50—CK-i-) 394 Transactions of tub Mr. SicdcrBlobcn has romediod this by applying, which ho was first todo, a shield, the protecting disks a a (fig. 15), which can bo used for the Iig. benefit of the young beet plants shortly after their coming up, and bywhich the earth is prevented from covering the plants. The capacit
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . ih« The only dis;ui\ :thtai; ? ilns iiiiniiine has is that, in joung beets, theplants are apt to be buried by the knives digging up and displacing the earth. 50—CK-i-) 394 Transactions of tub Mr. SicdcrBlobcn has romediod this by applying, which ho was first todo, a shield, the protecting disks a a (fig. 15), which can bo used for the Iig. benefit of the young beet plants shortly after their coming up, and bywhich the earth is prevented from covering the plants. The capacity of a machine of this kind is about twelve raorgens aday. This is of so much the more consequence in beet culture, becausethe weeds begin to make their appearance at the same time on all fieldsin Spring; and it is of the greatest importance to destroy them at thisvery moment, in order that the beets may not be retarded, allowed tochoke, as we say. With regard to this, 1 may, at the same time, sug-gest that, in consequence ofsimultaneous sowing, the thinning, also,and the hoeing of the beets are crowded into a short space of time;whence arises the difticulty of finding sufficient force for the is, thorctbre, to be recommended to sow the beets at different times,and by this means to divide, also, the time of thinning and hoeing the intervals between the rows have been cleaned by tiie machine,there remains to be worked with the hoe on
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