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Of these, sugar-beets, potatoes, and tobacco may be mentioned.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

For this condition one of the best crops to employ in rotation is sugar-beets, because they strike many small roots deep into the earth.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

United States records in various states show that where sugar-beets are used in rotation, the wheat and corn yield is increased from two to four times, and in Germany they are largely used to restore the fertility of the land, even if the sugar-beets themselves are sold at a loss.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

As the principal elements of the soil needed by sugar-beets are carbon and oxygen, which are absorbed from the air and sunshine, and as the beets can be sold at

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

Tons and tons of sugar-beets are grown throughout the farming lands, and harvested in September.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

The unpruned vines were snaking across the ground, the cobs on the standing maize had gone as hard as stone, the mangels and sugar-beets were hyper-trophied into huge woody lumps.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

These people have been kept alive on sugar-beets for the past few months, so it is as well to feed them at the Allies 'expense for a little while, in order that they may create a better impression when they return to France.

Out To Win The Story of America in France Coningsby Dawson 1921

In another was an itemized list of the amounts which might be exacted by farmers for damage to growing crops: so much for an _atterrissage_ in a field of sugar-beets, so much for wheat, etc.

High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France James Norman Hall 1919

Leaving the comparative hardness of the road, we started to make our way to the mouth of a communication trench through what had evidently once been a field of sugar-beets -- and instantly sank to our knees in mire that seemed to be a mixture of molasses, glue, and porridge.

Italy at War and the Allies in the West 1918