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Show CALIFORNIA LETTER. Wo havo henrd so many reports regarding re-garding tho prico paid for beets In California Cali-fornia and tbo cheap labor that was secured thoro. Wo wrototoone ol our subscribers at Wntsonvillo for Information Informa-tion upon tho subject and secured the following icply which may bo found of interest to eomo of our readers : "In answer to your questions I will say thero nro different ways of cultivation cultiva-tion carried on hero, some farmers will plow and seed their lands and then mnko contracts to havo them thinned out, cleaned, dug, topped and load tho beets Into waggons, and tho farmers will dollver them to tho factory. Whon tho farmers hlro their own help they pay 36,00 per month. Women do not work in tho Held in this part of tho stale. A farmer whom I am well acquainted with rented 20 acres of land, agreeing to pay the owner one third of tho product, be then made a contract to havo his beets thinned, cleaned, digged, dig-ged, topped nnd loaded into wagons for (1.60 per ton. His yield was 0 tons por acre, and ho received an average of (4.50 per ton for his beets, thus leaving him a fair profit, considering tho (act that this was not a very favorable season for beets. Tho avcrago prico of land Is about $100 per acre. borne farmers havo dono well, and sonio say they hao lost money by raising rais-ing beets, but I notico they always want to contract again. Our seasons run closed December 3d (this included a shut down of two weoka to allow tho beets to bo brought in) j our run was very successful as far as machinery ma-chinery is concerned, not a break or n hitch occuring tho whole tlmo. I am satisfied from reading tho Estm-prise Estm-prise that Nebraska will surpass California Cali-fornia in raising beets. Itcspectfully Heel Enterpriie. II. B. Weuer." |