| Show I RUSSIANS VISIT LEEX Sugar Factory Owner and Agricultural Agricul-tural Expert Lehi Utah Aug 6Last evening there arrived at the Union hotel Messrs C G Schindler an engineer from the department of agriculture of the Russian Rus-sian government at St Petersburg and S W Gardeldse of Leptzk Mr SChindler is employed as a teacher and is traveling in the interest of agriculture agricul-ture and agricultural machinery He speaks very highly of our country and I our mode of procedure on the farm He thinks that our machinery prices are too high For instance for a 6foot cut binder he said 3200 was the price in his country by wholesale for a McCormick Mc-Cormick reaper and other implements in proportion In answer to the question I ques-tion as to the shortage of the wheat crop of Russia he said he thought that the grain crop would be but medium this season Mr Gardekise is the owner of a large sugar factory in south Russia and was very much interested in the culture of the sugar beet He visited the sugar factory in company with Manager Cutler Cut-ler of the Utah Sugar company and spoke very highly of the works and the good prospects as he said for the company this year Sugar he said ranged in price in his country as incur in-cur state but labor was much lower ranging from 35 to 50 cents a day He paid about 350 per ton for the beets having from 95 to 96 purity In visiting visit-ing the farms of Lehi where the sugar beets were growing he seemed to think that the crops were very good He was delighted with the climate of our state and thought that the soil was well adapted for the raising of the beet From seven to nine tons to the acre was considered a good crop in Russia They generally planted in April and if the rains were favorable a 9tons crop would be raised The gentlemen have visited California Califor-nia and a number of other states spending spend-ing some three months and expect to be home again in about two months On their return they will visit the principal agricultural machinery manufactories manu-factories in the United States then got go-t > France and Germany TWO BAD ACCIDENTS A K Mullins son Albert about 12 years old while bringing the cows from pasture on horse back run up against one of the animals with such force that I when the horse struck the cow the I boys leg came between the two ani irials and was broken The son of Mr J Saby a little fellow followed up the steam thresher and got too close to the machinery The result f r was a broken leg At the homo of A J Andreason a t girl was > born and at the residence of Thomas Clark a son appeared |
