Show SUGAR BEETS IN IDAHO Snake River Valley Ideal District for Tubers GREAT PROMISES FOR FUTURE I Will B com = Greatest Boat 1 Region In America < So Declares Heber Austin the Agricultural Agri-cultural Superintendent of the Idaho SU I Sugar Company TRIBUNE SPECIAL Lehl Utah Dec I2 WHebcr > Austin the agricultural superintendent for the Idaho Sugar company with his family Is spending the holidays In Lelil andis very enthusiastic over the bcetsugnr success In the Snake River valley which district lie declares Is destined to become the greatest bcettnigfir district in America The Jot Is peculiarly adapted to sugar beet culture the climatic conditions aro Ideal l and there la I an abundance of WAtcrx for irrigation purposes When tho factory commenced runnhiK this season they had one pile that covered cov-ered an area of nearly nlno acres and were piled from ton to twelve feet deep Four thousand five hundred acres were grown for the Idaho Falls factory but already COCO acres have been contracted for next seasons crop and a similar acre ago for the Fremont county sugar factory fac-tory now building at Sugar City thirty miles north of the Idaho Falls plant Of this acreage thu sugar company will plant Jot acres Itself tar each of the two mills the farmers planting the other 10000 acres The farmers have too large tracts of land to fertilize by the usual method so many of them ploughed up ten twenty and thirtyacre patches of alfalfa during the past summer when It was about ten Inches high This will he disked In the spring and this method will he universally followed where large fields arc planted to beets for where farmers have followed this plan the yield has Invariably bean most satisfactory Help during the thinning season will continue to be the most perplexing problem prob-lem to solve but for a few years till the district becomes more thickly settled Japanese Ja-panese and Indians will be Imported WASHINGTON SUGARBEET FACTS Frances Salzner Arthur Webb and Leon Taylor are home from Wavcrly Wnshm where they with T R Cutler Jr and W L Webb all of Lehl have been operating ope-rating the Washington State sugar fac tory Mr Cutler acting as superintendent superintend-ent and the others acting as foremen or chemIsts Ill Stlzncl says that the factory has had the most successful run In Its history his-tory The campaign lasted seventysix davi 1000 tons of beets were cut and 5COOOOO pounds of firstclass sugar was made This was Mr Cutlers second year In charge and they were the only two years out of the tire years that the factory fac-tory has been In operation that Il has been a financial success The beets scorn to be of a peculiar composition and re nulre much closer attention while going through the mill than do the Utah beets bul Several new Improvements Inaugurated Inaugu-rated by the Utah men have turned the difficulties es Into success The bad railroad facilities for the trans nortatlon of boots to the factory presents pre-sents tho greatest difficulties at present but the Indications arc that this obstacle will be overcome during the coming season sea-son sonIhc farmers grow about eight or nine tons of beets per acre and are paid Jo 2o mier ton the top price paid In America Nine tons per acre seems a low tonnage to Utah farmers but It will be remembered remem-bered that the Washington farmers do not have to Irrigate their beets Nearly all the labor In the llelds is I performed by Japs which labor is said to bo very ear Isfactorv Some of the labor Is performed bv Indians though It is not as satisfactory satisfac-tory as the Taps The coming scauon Is more promising of success and a larger acreage will be planted I |