Root crop

Usage examples of beets.

To a man like me, reared in the cane country, it seemed profane that men would try to extract sugar from beets, but they did.

He now shipped carloads of melons to Denver, raised sweet corn and was making a big success of his sugar beets, which for the time being he fed to cattle, since there was no sugar factory in the region.

April 25, when the likelihood of frost had diminished, he had to plant his sugar beets the way a housewife plants radishes: he sowed the seed heavily along the whole length of his rows, using about twenty-four times as many seeds as he really needed.

Time and again a fine crew would spend one spring with Brumbaugh, but come late summer they would hear about the steel mills down in Pueblo and off they would go for work where they could have their own little house in an Italian community with its priest and a good restaurant, and the sugar beets would see them no more.

And off he went, leaving Brumbaugh with no one to block his beets, or thin them, or pull and top them at harvest.

When I lived on the Volga they knew more about sugar beets than anyone.

Ten minutes of instruction told them all they required about their new job, and when Brumbaugh saw them whisking down the rows, chopping out unwanted beets with one swipe, he knew he had solved his problem.

Again the trouble lay in the seed, for instead of a single seed, beets have a cluster of from three to five enclosed in a hard, rough shell.

Each could produce a beet, but if they all did, none of the beets would be worth a nickel.

He had great respect for a man, or more likely a child, who could thin beets properly, and he brooded about where he would find his next crop of workers.

Dyer Construction Company of California moved in its skilled engineers and the Union Pacific started building a spur down which the beets would arrive and along which the bags of sugar would depart.

But most found it to be the smell of progress, a decent, earthly aroma of beets turning themselves into gold.

October, when the beets were topped and delivered and Brumbaugh was on his way to another championship, the ax fell.

Goro Takemoto a contract for twenty-five acres of beets, and I want you to see that he gets some good seed.

Land produced the beets, but the tops were plowed back to enrich that land.