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Show BEET SUGAR. A Man of Experience Talks Upou Beet Cultivation. The farmers of Utah, especially those of Utah county; who are this season making an extensive experiment experi-ment in raising the sugar beet, will be interested in the remarks recently made by Mr. E. 5. Grant on the cultivation culti-vation of the sugar beet in Nebraska, where exlensive preparations air be-iugmade be-iugmade to go into the sugar produc- ,5iig indu-itry. Mr. Grant, is well up in the beet-raising question and therefore his opinions are worthy of respectful attention. "The beet is an enriching and dealing deali-ng crop. It requires no fallow; it is .ho best known forerum.er of other , crops; it feedi multitudes of stock atkl, instead of impoverishing the s il. c instantly in-stantly improves it. In fact, there can be no doubt that the beet crop will be found to be as profitable to the farmer here as it has unquestionably been to the European farmer. The farmers of the west possess a great many advantages over those of Europe. Eu-rope. They have a virgin soil, prodigiously prodi-giously productive, easily cultivated, of low cost, and agricultural machinery', machin-ery', with .which one man may do the work of a dozen. Probablv, notwithstanding notwith-standing the high prices of labor, there is no other country in which an acre of land can be cultivated so cheaply as in the west. But with all these flattering prospects pros-pects for the success of this industry in the great west of the United States, our Utah, Nebraska and : Kansas farmers must be prepared to meet difficulties diffi-culties in the establishment of this new industry. In Germany, v 'iere the sugar beet is now one of the ' ost profitable pro-fitable crops of the farmer, sa . failures overtook them in the early years of their expei-ience, and for many years every pound of beet sugar produced in Germany was at a loss to the manufacturer. manufac-turer. Still the infant industry struggled strug-gled on urtil now beet sugar is one of the staple productions of the empire. Herald. |