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Show Who Planted First Idaho Sugar IMs- L td T.-Og'J, l'O; EiacKLOGl , .. t -.. ; , : . v hu : la .tea a trait hit., : it: Icbt. is ue.td-ii.g ue.td-ii.g a it.ct etti.t.t to vitc a proper ' , icricai :. ari:--i at. the site ci .he a-i oi ti.e i.-'V lii.c't.vJ , wr WiV.iw Vvi l " Hahoans wL.j 'relieve their farm lias a claim lo (14s marker are invited' in-vited' to send uie supporting evidence evi-dence to Mr. Trego at Lit ekiooi. This should iitvlu ie ivcovt shov,--ing cost of pro.Ute; it..., HUi.tr toa-tent, toa-tent, and o.Ucr dala which was collected in those eariy days to cflermine the adaptability of Idaho' Ida-ho' to sugar beet production. A .v rows of beets in the garden ro not qualify. Trego wants to taie tils tract which started the commercial industry. In his search for light :,Ir. Trego v rc.e Dean 13. J. Iutlings of the University of Idaho college of eg-uuliure eg-uuliure to check early records of the state agricultural experiment ition, which was established in S2. A search of the files discios-( discios-( (t that the twelfth agricultural bulletin is' tied by the university alt with sugar beet growing in Idaho. In it Charles McCurdy, chemist with the station, stated that sugar beets had been grown m Idaho "on a systematic basis" since 1SD1. The bulletin refers to the harvesting har-vesting and testing of beets in the fall of 1S93, and devotes considerable consider-able attention to the increase in university work in this field in 1S94. The bulletin relates that 192 analyses for sugar content were made that year. The beeis were grown at several points in rlhern Idaho, at Idaho Falls and at Nam pa. While the early university agricultural agri-cultural bulletin presents much interesting in-teresting data on the beginning of a now big industry it sheds no light on where the first beet planting plant-ing was made. ! o o |
