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Show Sugar Campaign Opens Sept. 21st runner to Commence Dllfglug September Sep-tember 17th Coining Season Most Promising In Parlor)' History Plenty of Seed for Nct Vcnr's Planting. What promises to bo tho most successful suc-cessful campaign In the twenty-three years of the I.ehl sugar factory's history his-tory will commence Monday, Saptem-ber Saptem-ber 21st. Tho farmers will commence digging beets and hauling them to the factory.four days before this date. Tho men will bo glen their places at 2 o'clock next Satmday. j. Superintendent James II. Gardner says that there will bo no dearth of applicants for positions. Already there aie more peoplo who want Jobs than there has been for fifteen year J. Ho could get enough men to operate three factories, but will give former' employees their old positions and then till the few vacancies with now applicants, He expects applications from experienced men for practically all the positions. Less men hno been employed during dur-ing the shut down than lor any previous pre-vious year. Only thoco Improvements hae been mado which wcro absolute, ly necessary. Still the mill Is in first class ihapc and ludlcatlono aro that all previous records will bo smashed The engines have boon thoroughly over-hauled, tho pumps repacked and repairs made In the machinery whorever necessary. Tho touiiago will exceed last year's yield by approximately 1G.000 - .tons, he estimate from tho 10,000 ncroa planted being 13,000 tons. Last j'car the per cent of saiherluo in tho beets was very low. Tills year Indications aro that It will at least bo up to normal. nor-mal. The Held sampling, now being made, also shows that the beets are ten days earlier than last. Thcro has been plenty of water with which to ninturo 'them and tho weathor has been Ideal for developing tho sugar, so (hat the growing season has boon generous both to tho farmer and tho ractory. Tho estimated yield oi sugnr now la 33,000,000 pounds. . - Not only Is tho Utah-Idaho Sugar company well fixed for this season, but It Is In much better condltlonrfbr noxt your than most American factories, fac-tories, particularly us regards bwt seed. Most sugar factories expected to get their beet seed from Germany next month for noxt yenr's pUntlng. Tho Utah-Idaho factories have ait ample supply now In their seed gralnerles for next year and will raise their own teed for 1910. Seed for vhlch tho I.ehl farmers this year paid 15 cents per pound, could find n ready market for 50 cents, bccauBo of tho German supply having been shut off. Autlcltnplng a change from German to American seed, the Utah-Idaho Sugar Su-gar company bus been conducting experiments ex-periments In Garland and at Sugar t'll). This year one-third tho Quantity necessary for planting the Idaho crop was raised at Sugar City. There Is a colony of about 100 Germans, experienced ex-perienced In growing beet seed, now located In Sugnr City, and picpara-tloiirt picpara-tloiirt are being mado this season to plant a sulllceut acreage of mother beets to mako tho company Independent Indepen-dent of Germany In 1010. Mark Austin, Aus-tin, general manager of tho Idaho factories last year paid $1,200 for 100 pounds of thorobrctl pedigreed seed.' It was planted last Bprlug, and the beets which wero kept over for mothers, will this year produce enough seed to plant an acreage sufll. cent to produce enough seed for the company's uso for ono year This, seed, which cost the company 12.00, per pond, was bred up by experts for Men years and linn a pedigree as regular as' a thorobiod horse Mr. Wlnterhallor, the company's export recently from Germany, was In I.ehl the past week with George A Smith and Is enthusiastic over the prospects jf growing the seed. . . o |