Show REPORT ON BEET SUGAR All of the beelsugar factories in this mountain region are making phenomenal phenome-nal runs this year the weather and temperature are propitious and the factories fac-tories which have made lale starts are > doing well with nothing far to fear from hard frosts or from storms There can be no doubt that an Increase < in the beetsugaV product amounting to about thirty per cent will be readied this year compared with last and that was a year of unprecedented production here up to I then nVe We believe that the conditions in this region including northern Idaho and western Colorado arc ideal for the culture cul-ture of the sugar beet The soil is exceptionally ex-ceptionally suitable for the plant and the irrigation permits of the application of the water just when It Is needed with no risk of either too much or of drought III any sort of nn average season sea-son And the saccharine richness of the neel ana the production of firstclass seed make the Industry profitable and jselfsufilcient In thecountry at large Including our own special region of course we find by 1 the report of the Secretary of Agriculture Agri-culture that the beetsugar Industry Is nourishing Secretary WUso says of It The beetsugar Industry Is developing satisfactorily In 1S9G 20220 tons were made one year ago 220000 tons wore made Careful estimates put the crop now being worked up at 200000 tons This Is a more rapid development than I has taken place in sugar making with new conditions in any other country The future of the crop depends upon the adoption of economic methods In field and factory The growing of seed in the United States of a superior quality is assured whIch will result In much richer rich-er beets and better yields than from Imported seed that Is never firstclass Heavier tonnage per acre will come from better farming and more economy from Intelligent disposition of the byproducts by-products The industry Is well established estab-lished These remarks apply emphatically to the conditions existing in this region The increase In this Industry among us in the eight years referred to has been even more striking than In the country at large the adoption of more economic methods has progressed far and the utilization of the byproducts Is fairly complete especially that of the beet pulp which Is found to be an excellent feed for stock and is eagerly taken by the farmers The production of beot seed of a superior quality Is also well developed with us and on the whole the claims made by the practical and able Siectetary fin the whole country aro especially well realized here and the beauty of It Is that the industry is yet I In Its Infancy Two Important factories i were built the season now ending and I the opportunities for yet other factories are many and fully as promising as any that have been utlllxed |