Salt Lake Herald | 1891-05-03 | Page 4 | Beet Sugar

BEE SQUA The farmers of Utah especially those in 4 Utah county who are this season making an extensive experiment in raising the sugar beet will be interested in the remarks re-marks recently made by Mr E B GRANT on the cultivation of the sugar beet in Nebraska where extensive preparations are being made to go into the sugar producing pro-ducing industry Mr GRUTT is well up in the beetraising question and thereforo his opinions aro worthy of respectful attention at-tention The beet is an enriching and cleaning crop It requires no fallow it is the best known forerunner fore-runner of other crops it feeds multitudes of stock and instead of impoverishing the soil constantly improves it In fact there can be no doubt that the beet crop will be fount to be as profitable to the farmer here as i has unquestionably un-questionably been t the European farmer The farmers of the west possess a great many advantages over those of Europe They have a virgin soil prodigiously productive easily culti voted of low cost and agricultural machinery wit which one man may do the work of a dozen Probably notwithstanding the high prices of labor there is no other country in which an acre of land can be cultivated so cheaply as in the west But with n these flattering prospects for tho success of this industry in the great west of the United States our Utah Nebraska Ne-braska and Kansas farmers must be prepared pre-pared t meet difficulties in the establishment establish-ment of this new industry In Germany where the sugar beet i now one of tho most profitable crops of the farmer sad failures overtook them in the early years of their experience and for many years every pound of beet sugar produced in I Germany vas at a loss to the manufacturer manufac-turer Still the infant industry struggled on until now beet sugar is one of the staple productions of the empire