Deseret Evening News | 1905-12-16 | Page 48 | Weber Co. Beet Farmers

WEBER CO BEET FARMERS By rh Job Joli Pin Agricultural A Superintendent of the Amalgam Amalgamated Sugar Company IF Ogden sugar SU RI factory owned I TIll T by tw till the tit Sugar with will close Its lis seasons run for or 1005 1301 about Christmas nearly t two 1110 o w ok earlier than Hun U last laRl it lIr The tugar boot crop for fur the tho OB Og thou den sugar factory tinting IMi hue hll not hot o IJ I to 10 the gen geul generally lie Int In 1 eni The he average aerne per perline ode line Is III fully le Ieee Where hera raised rn I 1 touts tons to time the nero acre la last U yen year r on mi 1111 UI CI this Ii is year 1111 they hey t in tIll ly h l hui voted 10 tons Ions The Tho extremely hot hol or of water and anti the tho I t beet heet lly lIy have lmae been wen the t hi 0 principal Pitt I u III In the tite crop rol The rue fly 11 seemed to 10 Injure time the beets utmost most tint that t tw were w re planted late Into In the tho splint tho thue early beets heetH to do ItO be beet het t Tho rho towns of at e Hooper Wit Witson 11 son Ion West Vest Weber Warren Plain City which places me ate supplied with water itter Iter for lor Irrigation purposes from the ilver ulver 1 for fOI want In II I of water The fhe lots IO this year to the th crops of the tho farmers III In eber county oboe for want of or water would amount to 10 many mall t ii Cu call tIM of oh iii re a so in inI that hat I would KO go o fill far towards the tue of lit n a for tor the of ater The 10 were many moult farmers this your who wit h hail had Ko gOll d tops of oC beets beete while other crepe were almost u II failure A H majority of If the time beet growers Blowers have halo learned the of ot I hi 1 r land well ei i feut ii izi ng Hid ii a planting pie nt I n g their beet peed euly of ot thinning III the thu beets heets early oary and of time the weeds leaned out OUI the tho HUgar beets oer CIer every chance to glOW nod and matuie As to time the of oC the Hie beet Industry In this action It en cn The lime boot beet Is II perhaps the Ih most profitable of u tI crops fot fa ci I the tue farmer It 1 takes a great greal amount of nf labor laboi to raise ralo sugar beets beete hut but when time the farmers their thOu checks front from the sugar eligar company compall for fur their products they reel feel well Putt pal aunt though the labor lubor h III hard they feel leady to 10 try tr again next year enl When Whon the ORden sugar factory was waR ll t built hUllt In III 1 1898 It took look considerable labor habor and pleading with the farmers from Crom rein on time the south Bouth to 10 Pres Preston Preston ton Ion on the 1101 th to III get Itel contracts I for 2000 aNCH of sugar beet heet heetI I while In 1901 I the tho he furmell in inthis Inthis this title I II nit district have raised beets to supply foUl four sugar f fuu fac factorIes c torIes viz 1 the Ogden O I l Lo 10 LoBin Bin gaui wl loll The ton Inn factory wait built title this The rime tanners farmers between 1 Fu and I for neaily C G of oC mi sugar gar beets title thin year yen I which Is about nix Ix times tunes the acreage contracted for fOI ni In lit IS S thus time the with which the farmers have taken up 1111 the sugar beet raining Industry In these few foil In thin Mimic Mime section of ot country there are many man agriculturists who are urn raising vegetables e grains fruits tomatoes null and other crop Unfortunately this year jear the Iho tomato crop rOil wan Willi almost a 0 In in Weber county The Tho Ogden O tlell Sugar Su ur company paid pail this hIm peason nearly 22 for or sugar beets PItYing n it flat rate rale of tier pel ton The he connon On ItOH ian been Iwen very favorable for tor tin harvesting of oC the hit th crop crOl which Is nit all harvested and by II the thc en cn entire entire tire Uro output of the tho Ogden factory will viiI willbe be ht ready to 10 e on the tho market thus thull our money mou y Is 15 kept k at al home for lor this tItle product Since lie tho commencement of sugar and it mid canning caim ni Ig factories a ct ones crouton mid tu nit other home tes the wages of uC the tho laboring men lIell have hit hll e been greatly In Increased creased there th re I hI x plenty of employ employment ment for those thOM who tito wh ore lire willing to t work vork