Show RAISING THE SUGAR BEETS SALT LAKE daxe CITY jan in ID your issue of january 18 1895 11 notice tin nn article from a farmington cr correspondent respondent on sugar augar beet raising ra laing I 1 am afraid many of conr subscribers way may think according to your corres correa poud ponde enid nula calculations that there Is i nothing so go profitable as raising ugar sugar beets beeta but lor jor we me benefit of your cor and subscribers generally I 1 will endeavor to give you a correct statement of things from my own per experience in the first place the farmer has baa to sign a contract with the sugar company and this bia la is the nature of the contract the sugar company hereby afre ire eato ia purchase puro haae from of li hi or where any and all ail i ane beets beeta he be may produce from seed aeed furnished furnia hed by us that luat do not weigh over throe three anu anti one hall pounds and that contain not low ie man eleven per cent sugar augar wab a purity cu of eighty per ceist cent paying him at the rate of 01 per ton all beets beeta are to ua ie delivered e at the factory in a marketable condition with the tops topa closey and squarely arely out off and are to be piled up or un unloaded loaded in fit a proper manner under tirador our direction all diseased frosos or bt damaged beets beeta will be refused and all beets beeta not properly topped or with dirt clinging to them will be subjects to discount aou at the land has baa also alao to undergo preparation before planting the need aued or it will not germinate then the farmer use oai to take hia dig chances as aa to 90 whether begets he gets his hia seed aeed planted ip good time as atie sugar company employs employ certain men to do all the planting pl antinK and I 1 can assure you that you are oneat we the favored lav ored well weli you are liable to have to wait until late in the season before kulu your seed aeed planted well we will suppose the former farmer goto gets big bl seed aeed planted at a reasonable time which should be about the end of april it taken the good aeed about ten to fourteen days daya to germinate in fair weather and an aa soon aoun as aa the be planta are about two inches high they abound be thinned right away they have to be thinned to about eight or of ten inch apart the thinning taken taked consider 7 7 iya THE DESERET WEEKLY able time and any one having in ID a num number berof of acres requires considerable help belp asa a a baucan man can only thin tain out eight to ao ton rows a day forty rods jong and it takes forty rows to toe me sore acre after the thin th ining ing la Is the cultivating which has baa to be done by hand band chie chiefly flys atia dome horse dorse power I 1 may say aay here that the farmer needs special implements to cultivate sugar beets which art are no not necessary la in we the cultivation of other routs roots pl blamers amers cuti va tors lives hoes toppers and beet plows lor for digging the beets I 1 may say any sugar beets need more care anu cultivation than any other root vegetable or cereal grow 0 I 1 have raised nearly every kind of vegetable root or coreal grown either in this country or in england so CAU from it to Is aiso necessary tu to he be most particular about irrigating or the beets will not mature the early beets ripen late in september when the beets are sufficiently rive ripe corthe for the factory then comes the testing and digging pulling and topping anu the ahe beets have to be handled it five ve or six times before being finally delivered deliver ej at the factory plowed pulled topped loaded unloaded the factory people are very strict and u clebe the beets go a certain per according to the contract even to the smallest fraction the farmer I 1 ie liable to have all his beets left on his bin hands and no market whatever for them and all his time labor machinery etc to is a loss lose you will see nee mr editor the farmer runs a greater risk in growing sugar beets thao any otner other arm produce and there is always a reduction for dirt of from two tu go seven percent per cent now last year I 1 raised six acres of beets for the sugar company and many of the farmers around said I 1 had one of the prettiest stands of beets to in lehl lehi field but last year was a dry spring and wet fall and I 1 was out 0 01 pocket on my beets nearly 30 when labor planting and seed were paid for not including my own time and plow lag Ing etc I 1 got 5 per ton beets delivered but owing to the be season my fleets beets did not net mature yet all my other vegetables root etc did many of the farmers besides myself were wt at a low loss from the same cause ur correspondent says it looks reasonable fea that it if an acre of lanu ladu cauli be made to produce 20 tons ot of beets yes it certainly looks reasonable enough but where will you find land to produce twenty tons of beets beet to the acre that is for the jac factory tory as you will see ee by the contract the factory will not receive beets weighing weigh ing over three and nd a half pounds each the sugar company plants hundreds of acres and on the beat of land too and their heir beets receive the very best beat 0 cultivation and they only raise from rum eight to twelve tons to the acre and sometimes less and it to la co a very good crop indeed to go fifteen tons tone to the acre 80 you will now see mr editor that beet raising so tar as toe the farmer to is concerned is not so BO very profitable an industry after all to in utah of course I 1 know well enough that at present prices for sugar the utah company carrot can lot run their factory fully orto or to eatn clear the cost coat of pro duerod duo aioo still they can hardly expect the farmer to grow beets beels for far 4 per too ton under the same contracts an aa hitherto the company bahto hitherto taken particular care to run no risk and the farmer hais bad had jostand to stand all the lose such should not be the case and I 1 am not surprised at the farmers not wishing to grow beets baete at a reduction under past condit condition iop P fisher |