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Show This Woman Farmer Astonishes By Pluck and Appetite for Work U1 fi W- - I Mrs. Nellie Bcrgncr, of Mesa County, Colorado, is one of the wonders of the state, according to her beet farmer neighbors. For Boven years sho has had sole direction dir-ection of her 3G0 acre reclamation farm and done fro.n davn to sun-Bet sun-Bet every variety of the farm's hard work. II or principal helpers have been her son and daughter and she hoa had them only in the summer, for tile boy has just been graduated graduat-ed from the University of Colorado with hltrh honors and the girl will be graduated next yuar. "I wish everyone in the United States could get a real picture of the beet sugnr farmers' life." Mrs. Bergner said In a recent Interview. "We are struggling to build an empire em-pire out of Innrl which, like mine, had never known a plow until we tackled 1L We are trying to set Up an assured supply or cotnrnua- ity for which the country b now eighty per cent dependent on fVr-. eiim supply. "The reclamation area Is 'absolutely 'absol-utely dependent on sugar beets op Its basic crop. Our ability 10 earn a livelihood is as Important to the nation In the long run as tt Is to us. Tot we do our work under Are from constant propaganda td Lake away from us the mild pro-tectlon pro-tectlon tdven our crop under lh present tariff, as com oared with a bounty of 4 24 cents a point that "free trailo' Kn'and has ; flared in favor of ita domest.o sugar grower. "If we are whipped In the figh to make a living and presen prices are In a fair way to whin us the country will be wholly In t he ha nds of a Cuban monopoly, and higher not lower prices for tmtjur will be tho ultimate result.' |