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Show 8U0AK INDUSTRY. The Practical Operations in Nebraska. A Letter That Will be Read With Interest by the People Peo-ple of Utah County. The manufacture of sugar is a live subject in Utah, consequently any information in-formation associated with it is of local interest. The Omaha World-Herald contains a lengthy correspondence in relation to the operations of the Norfolk Nor-folk Beet Sugar company, of Norfolk, Nebraska, from which we produce the following: 'The Elkhorn valley is most beautiful beauti-ful at this particular time of the year when it is taking on its pring garments, gar-ments, and it seems as if every farmer was alive as we ride up this beautiful valley, and see them plowing ami preparing pre-paring their ground for the various crops they propose to put in. All arout d the factory is just one great field of beets. I counted forty-six teams at work from the factory building build-ing yesterday morning, some plowing, some harrowing, others planting and preparing the ground for the sed, others oth-ers with seeders actively at work put ting the seed in where the ground had been made ready. "The company has spared no money nor effort to make this year a telling one in the agricultural part of this great industry; for they realize that this is the great question to be solved, and they have supplied the farmers (who have been unwilling to purchase) at reasonable figures, with a most complete com-plete and perfect feeder, which will seed about fifteen acres per diem in a very satisfactory manner. "After this comes the cultivator, which is another new implement, and which is a very perfect contrivance for sugar beet culture, materially saving in cost and labor serious obstacles heretofore in the way of this crop, j "Other agricultural companies are now busily at work in perfecting a harvester, which is expected to take 1 the beet out of the ground and cut the top off. Thus, it is believed that within a very short time possibly possi-bly this yeur, but certainly within a very limited period beet culture will become much simplified as compared with present and past methods. In Europe where this industry has thrived to such a great extent, good beet land is worth from $500 to $700 an acre, and even then has to have soiae $25 to $30 expended each and every year for fertilizers, fer-tilizers, while in this great state of onrs we have,the richest land that pro-dices pro-dices a beet varying from 3 to 8 per cent more in saccharino matter than any in Europe. and grown on land that ran be had even here in this section at from $30 to $40 an acre, and when located lo-cated at some distance from a railroad station can be had at very much lower figures; so that this new. industry bids fair to bring to us a great many immigrants. immi-grants. "Secretary Hamilton has told me 1 at the French people doubt that the sugar beet can be produced in this country as rich as has open already demonstrated, and adds that a large and wealthy corporation in France has stated in a recent communication to him that there were several hundred families that would like to come to Norfolk and buy t wenty and thirty acre plats of ground for this purpose,if they could be assured that the beets can" be raised as rich as we here know they can be produced; so that this new and great industry that has come to our state means more than would appear ap-pear at first glance it means a great influx, not only from all parts of the United States, but from the sugar producing pro-ducing section of Europe; it means that instead of a farmer producing a crop that is more or less dependent upon Chicago speculators he will produce pro-duce a crop that is contracted to be sold before planted, and on which, with our Yankee Ingenuity, he can make from five to fifteen times a - much per acre as on any other crop he now produces. pro-duces. And then again, the pulp that is partially given free to the farmer producing the beets is something that must not be overlooked, for it is a well known fact, and has been largely com-menteo com-menteo upon recently by some of our most authorative agricultural papers, that hog cholera is absolutely unknown where beet pulp has been fed. This, alone, were factories in sufficient num bers established in our western country, coun-try, would save millions of dollars to the farmers. Being located as we are, without minerals, timber, coal or river navigation, such local factories mean more than those who do not think seriously seri-ously of the question can comprehend; for the soil produces the raw material which is manufactured into a marketable market-able article ar d sold out ofthe state or out of the locality where the factory is situated, thus bringing money into both, which necessarily makes a prosperous pros-perous state of affairs, while other factories fac-tories simply give employment to the idle hands of the town and use only raw material produced in other sections sec-tions and brought there for manufacture." manufac-ture." J winter when the costs and risks incident inci-dent to mountain travel are increased j by cold and snow there would appar- ' ently be some justification in the ac- j tion taken. But to advance rates in tne summer time, when cost and risks on the part of the railroad j are at the minimum, and in the presence of hard times, slow sales and decreasing prices is, to draw it mildly, a stroke of business busi-ness that is not in accord with public sentiment. Commercial. |