. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. ^\J9*^3L BULLETIN No. 735 mm Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry ^Cli^x^J^* WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief ^?<H?5^» Washington, D. C. November 15, 1918 FARM PRACTICE IN GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN THE BILLINGS REGION OF By S. B. Nuckols, Assistant Agriculturist, Office of Sugar-Plant Investigations, and E. L. Curkier, Professor of Farm Management, Montana Agricultural College. CONTENTS. Basis of the study 1 Procedure 2 Description of the region studied 2 Development of
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. ^\J9*^3L BULLETIN No. 735 mm Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry ^Cli^x^J^* WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief ^?<H?5^» Washington, D. C. November 15, 1918 FARM PRACTICE IN GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN THE BILLINGS REGION OF By S. B. Nuckols, Assistant Agriculturist, Office of Sugar-Plant Investigations, and E. L. Curkier, Professor of Farm Management, Montana Agricultural College. CONTENTS. Basis of the study 1 Procedure 2 Description of the region studied 2 Development of the sugar-beet industry in the Billings region 4 Irrigated area in beets in 1915 4 Previous crop 6 Value of labor : 7 Manuring practice 7 Plowing practice 11 Crowning alfalfa sod in preparing land for beets 13 Disking practice 14 Floating practice 14 Harrowing practice 16 Rolling practice 17 Ditching practice 17 Planting beet seed : 18 Rolling land after beets are planted 19 Cultivation of beets 20 Furrowing for irrigation 22 Irrigating the sugar-beet crop 23 Lifting practice 26 Hauling beets 26 Hand or contract labor 29 Cost of seed for sugar beets 31 Cost of machinery 31 Prorating interest on the investment 32 Cost of land for sugar beets 32 Relation of yields to cost and profit 34 Summary 36 BASIS OF THE STUDY. To obtain data on methods of management, labor requirements, and cost of growing sugar-beets, studies were conducted on a large number of farms during the summer of 1916 in the area which grows beets for the beet-sugar factory at Billings, Mont., including farms 1 TMs bulletin was prepared jointly by the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station and the Bureau of Plant Industry and with the approval of the Office of Farm Manage- ment. The blanks used in collecting these dajta were prepared in the Office of Farm Management, "hence the material incorporated in this bulletin is identical in form with that in the other bulletins of this series prepared jointly by the
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