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Show PLANTING MOTHER BEETS. Forty-ilve Acres Used Damaging Winds and Frosts. Tho Utah Sugar company has just finished tho transplanting of 125 tons of mother boots from which they Intend In-tend raising almost a sufllclen, supply of seed with which to plant next seaon's crop. For two weeks past forty men and tioyi have been engaged removing tho beets from the pits, testing each bootseporalely and transplanting thctn In the soil, One hundred and seventy tons were stored nway last fall, but not all came up to tho staudnrd test, and with tho natural shrinkage tho tonnago planted was reduced to 125 tons, which when set out, covered some forty-tlvo acres of laud Iu the past Lehl-grown seed has produced excellent results, and promises In tho future to he an important im-portant adjunct to the sugar Industry. Tho farmers woro greatly rojolclrg over tho excellent prospects for a good stand of young beets, but between the winds nnd recent frosts their prospects have beon lessened somewhat. Whore tho land was loose mid sandy farmers report that tho high winds the past weci: blow qnlto a number out of the ground, and other farmers report that the sharp frosts of thu past two nlghu havu frozen somu of tho young tender plants. Hut tho injury in either case Is not enough to make any material difference in the final outcomo. Since the company's decision to enlarge en-large the factory, it has given notice to lis agents to increase tho acreage 0 per cont. This acreage Is quite generally being taken up, and tho company will cxiioilcncu no difficulty In securing what they desire. Lehl correspond euco Tribune, Saturday. County Jots. Several raes of scarlet fovor aro reported re-ported among children In Springvlllo. Great oaro should bo taken by the hoaith authorities hero to prevent tho spread (if the desease to Provo. Word has been rccolvcd hero of tho marrl ige at Santa Ana, Cat., of Miss Clara Clyde- of this city nnd Mr. W. L. Duggan of Santa Ann, Cal. Miss Clyde Is ono of Sptlngvlllo's well known society belles. Sho has been residing In California for thn past two years. Springvlllo correspond'jnco Tribune, April 23. Elders J. C. Nelson and J. E. Buck-waiter, Buck-waiter, who have been laboring lu tho South Curolliia-C'ouferonce, aro speeding speed-ing homeward, having performed a ulurlous work in tho south, for which they will always look backward on with pleasure. Elder Nelson's home Is at Itlverdale, Idaho, and Elder Buck-waiter Buck-waiter lives at American Fork, Utah. Having been out sluco December, 1800, their friends ut homo will greet them with great pleasure, even if they do not fully enjoy the going homo them-selvos. them-selvos. Southern Star. |