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Show " BEET GULTURE. Utah County Farmers Should Get to Work. Two Carloads of Beet Seed From Germany Being Distributed. The Sugar Factory Will Want Nearly 200,000 Tons of Beets This Season. Careful experiments, says the Ogden 'Standard, extending through a long series of years, have demonstrated that Utah possesses all the advantages of noil and climate which are absolutely abso-lutely necessary to the growth of a good sugar bpet. s that there exists no good reason why, at the proper time, our fanners should not make the cultivation of. the sugai beet a leading feature of their business. We have heretofore alluded to the sugar factory which is being built in Utah conrty and told what it is expected t d(r i en plie -' wilh plenty of the coper r.i v material. It is estimated tf't t i trull will use d;irinz the oper-at oper-at inn season 18-5H ions of beets, and ih- romp ny fxpect to be able to pro-c pro-c -re ilim tf.- immediate neighbor ho.nl of tl'- furioi v. s that no other part ' 'h Tenitoiy will be called rrn f t:.c ces-an supply; but 'ha? s t re -.sou win ti e funnels in vi w c-nty in Ulah shou'd not plai.: -xi" j .m. t'.cvl ctOivi t adai t- i! t':eir l- ::'i to t'je . r do-ticu oi s . jar sii-tis as to q.;uititv and q-a- Professor Wiley (bulletin 27.Depart-ment 27.Depart-ment of Agriculture), whose expert-ence expert-ence and intelligent judgment may be relied on, sajs: "The selection of suitable soil, the finding of proper climatic cli-matic conditions, and instruction in the meth-dsof planting, -ultivating and harvesting of beets, are all matters mat-ters of vital importance." The soil best suited to the beet is said to be a sandy loam, capable of being plowed twelve to fifteen inches and sufficiently porous to allow the surplus moisture to drain off. A mean temperature in 8ummerof about seventy degrees is quite sjfficient to mature the beet, while more heat tends to diminish the saccharine contents. The department j " of Agvicntture .t Washington has pub-' lished a map showing by means of a shading the portions of the United States having this mean temperature, and Utah falls within this belt. The fact of favorable climatic conditions has also been proven by numerous tests, duriug past years. The deficiency defici-ency in the rainfall is compensated I for by irrigation, and this must be reg ulated with some nicety, nothing being be-ing more fatal to beetsthan an excess of water. The Denver 2'inu.s says that the Agricultural Ag-ricultural College of Colorado has experimented ex-perimented upon the growth of the sugar beet with favorable results. Of three varieties grown in the season of 1890, the tonnage was as follows: 2 tons per acre, 272 tous per acre, 263 tons per acre. The sugar percentage was 14 per cent, which is pronounced very good and, if taken with the tou-nage,is tou-nage,is in advance of anything reported from other localities. A yield of fifteen fif-teen to twenty tons per acre, with 13 to 15 per cent, of sugar, would make it exceedingly profitable both to the fanner aud manufacturer. The California farmer has found sugar beet raising very profitable and in many respects the conditions of California Cal-ifornia and this section are similar. That the advantage to be derived by the farmer from the successful introduction intro-duction ol this industry is well worth any trouble or expense he may have in experimenting is easily proved. Spreckles' factory at Watsonville, California, Cal-ifornia, paid on the average $80 per acre to the farmer for beets who formerly form-erly obtained $12 per acre for wheat. At Grand Island, Neb. the farmer receives re-ceives from $50 to 65 per acre instead in-stead of growing wheat or corn, which often was used for fuel in that locality. Iu addition to this the farmer has the advantage of a rotation of crops, it being be-ing well known that beet growing leaves the laud in the very best condition con-dition for other crops. Besides, the land on which it has been proved that good beets can be grown, in the event of a factory being built, wi'l be much enhanced in value. The beet slici s, alter the sugar has been extracted, furnish excellent and cheap cattle i food and readily sell back to the farm er in California for one dollar per ton. The Utah Sugar Company have received re-ceived two carloads of beei seed, imported im-ported from Germany at a cost of $7,500, which will be distributed among the farmers who have contracted con-tracted with the sugar company to raise beets, and the drills and other machinery needed to plant the beets are on their way to Utah. The sugar company have also purchased considerable consid-erable land for beet culture, and will employ teams at $3 per day of eight hours "to plow it. The farmers can well afford to experiment in beet raising rais-ing and probably they could make favorable arrangements for seed with t h e sugar company. |
