. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 594 SUGAR-BEET SUGAR-BEET or into cars. Most shipping stations are provided with dumps, so that the wagons are unloaded by machinery directly into the cars. (Fig 822.) This method avoids the necessity of forking the beets by hand from the wagon into the cars, but is open to the objection that all the dirt, more or less of which clings to the beets when pulled, goes into the cars. Fig. 822. Use of wagon-dump in unloading sugar-beets. and is hauled into the beet sheds. If the cars are dumped at the sheds, as is frequently the case, the dirt
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 594 SUGAR-BEET SUGAR-BEET or into cars. Most shipping stations are provided with dumps, so that the wagons are unloaded by machinery directly into the cars. (Fig 822.) This method avoids the necessity of forking the beets by hand from the wagon into the cars, but is open to the objection that all the dirt, more or less of which clings to the beets when pulled, goes into the cars. Fig. 822. Use of wagon-dump in unloading sugar-beets. and is hauled into the beet sheds. If the cars are dumped at the sheds, as is frequently the case, the dirt goes with the beets into the bins. If the progresses more rapidly than the factory is able to handle the beets, it frequently becomes necessary to pit them temporarily in the field. These pits differ somewhat from those used for seed beets. In these field pits, the beets are dumped in long piles about three feet high and pro- vided with some light covering to keep out the frost. As soon as the beets are needed, they are reloaded and taken to the factory. Causes of injury to the crop. Hail.—Factory beets andseed beets are frequently damaged by severe hail-storms. Fortunately these storms are usually local, so that comparatively few fields are seriously injured in a single season. The storms occur most frequently in the early part of the season, when the beets are small and tender. It sometimes happens that a field of beets will have its foliage entirely destroyed. Since nothing can be done to prevent the storms, every effort is made to enable the beets to produce new foliage, and it seldom happens that the beets themselves are de- stroyed, although their growth is retarded to the detriment of the harvest. With seed beets the damage is considerable if the hail-storm occurs after the seed-stalks have begun to form, since it may either break down the seed-stalks or cut off the flowers or seeds, de- pending on the time the storm occurs and on its severity. Wind.—In some
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