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Show The heavy snow fall throughout Colorado is causing a blocade on almost all of the roads running into in-to Denver. Tlie Union Pacific and Burlington are both confronted with snowdiifts from six to ten feet deep along their lines. "Weather reports indicate that the storm is moving west and will likely reach us in time to give us sleighing for Christmas. George Austin of the Utah Sugar Co., has recently visited the Sprcckles sugar plant at Salinas in California, which Is said to be tlie largest beet sugar plant In the woiid. The factory fact-ory consumes 3,000 tons of beets dally and has a capacity of 600,000 tons dur-hifi" dur-hifi" the season. The beet sheds are 800 feet long. Half a train of beets are taken and unloaded at a time ,by machinery. Wagons are also unloaded unload-ed by machinery at a very trifling cost and with very little delay. By the time Utah has been In the sugar business bus-iness as long as California has, we will probably be able to show some plants that will discount that at Salinas. Payson, 'Dec. 2i. The Farmers institute, that was iiicld hcio Friday night by Profs. Wldtoc and Ball of the Agricultural college of Utah, was largely attended, The meeting was held In the Second Ward meeting house, and continued until after 10:30 p. m. Tho work of the Agricultural col-lege col-lege and exrieiimcltlal stdtlon was dwelt upon by. bptli of the professors, and I he' discussion brought out the remarkable fact that many citizens of 'as jjvc a town as Payop'knpw nothing 'of Ljie-alms and work, of the most important im-portant agricultural Institution of the State. . .Other toplfch were:1 "Tho Necessity Nec-essity of Farmo'riit K6eplng,Abrcast'of tilts Times," 'Intensive Farmjng," "Farmers Organizations' "Rotation of, Crops,'' "Tiio codling'' Sloth and Oth'r Insect.Pests.," Tho faj-inerspf Piiysou fire ;C, sctof, Inteljlgjin.j.pra-giesjlYO Inteljlgjin.j.pra-giesjlYO ineu, who welcome anything ihat will help-In making tholr life Work more satisfactory and profitable. |