. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . cessary. This is one of the most importantfeatures of beet culture and is a tedious and expensive opera-tion. It consists of cutting out the plants so that individualroots remain, spaced about eight inches apart. The work isdone by hand, a hoe being used to block out the spaces, and theroots surrounding the one which it is desired to retain arepulled up. Due partly to faulty germination, but principally todefective thinning of the beets, in which operation a greatmany of the small, tender beet plants are injured or ki
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . cessary. This is one of the most importantfeatures of beet culture and is a tedious and expensive opera-tion. It consists of cutting out the plants so that individualroots remain, spaced about eight inches apart. The work isdone by hand, a hoe being used to block out the spaces, and theroots surrounding the one which it is desired to retain arepulled up. Due partly to faulty germination, but principally todefective thinning of the beets, in which operation a greatmany of the small, tender beet plants are injured or killed, verymuch less than the theoretical number of mature beets are se-cured per acre. With rows eighteen inches apart and a plantevery eight inches in the row, 43,000 beets per acre should beobtained, which, at an average weight of one and one-halfpounds per beet, would mean tons. Owing, however, tothe facts just mentioned and to other causes, the actual yield isalways much less. The average in California for a number ofyears past has been only tons per
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