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Excerpt from Planting Season for Sugar Beets in Central California In states where the winter months are cold, beets are not planted until about April, when the weather becomes warmer and the danger of heavy frosts has passed. In such localities the growing season is comparatively short, and in some years the beets do not mature properly. The thinning and harvesting operations. Are, furthermore, crowded into a brief space of time. California, with its equable temperature, has the advantage that the see-ding can be done during the greater part of the year. This fact give-s the grower an opportunity to extend the growing period and, by selecting the proper time of seeding, to give the plant opti mum conditions of growth. By extending the planting time, more over, the California grower can distribute the thinning and harvesting operations more favorably than the: growers in other states, who have only a short period of favorable planting weather. Although the beet planting season is long in California, the seed ings made during different months do not produce equally good yields. Experimental data collected at Davis, California, a station representative of Sacramento Valley, and observations in commercial fields in the San Joaquin, Sacramento, Salinas, and San Juan valleys will serve as a basis for the following discussion of the best time to plant sugar beets in central California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.