Show II AMERICAN BEET BEET- SUGAR PRODUCTION I The rime manufacture of or beet sugar was c carried on In twelve states slates at nt time the time of or time thc c census of 1 lOG Tho Time leading states stales were Colordo Michigan an rind and S V v value ulue l c of or products was 9 for Cor Colorado Colordo for Mich Mich- igan hn and nd I for California These three states stales pro produced C r. r per cent of oC time the total toto 1 Pr product duct reported for or tho United States At At the tho census of 19 1905 Idaho Ohio and appeared for Cor the first o omon among the states engaged ed in this ll iu- iu I while Illinois and New Mexico were not ot shown in lii the time list although In IO BO I were In operation In iii those states states I I I I I I The Tho state which had hail the iho greatest number or of factories In iii was Mch- Mch mind of time jun factories In State i ten since ll Jm oo fi Colorado ien had ranked been established second with ni nine active factories of or which only one w was s In existence nce In I hOO The TIme greatest r Increase IS In value i 1900 ot of LP products occurred In In 1 as os ored with 10 Colorado and nd tho the next I gr greatest ate t In Michigan an 1 The Thai largest sugar factory In this country and one of the largest in iii tho world I Is Ig located In California which h slate possesses a n larger acreage that Is i well wel adapted lo to the tho growing of ot s sugar nr beets than Is found round In any other state i la Il the the Union Tn California r la and In l IB is I in Lao grow grow- l ue t. in tho the latter state e- e experiments In feeding cattle and ana Sheep p on beet pulp arc are being carried car car- nod ried on and time the beet branch ot oC the Industry In is further advanced nO here than In nn any other state In Michigan al also o th the utilization I of time the e products by-products h has r received 1 t considerable t b 1 attention re In Utah time the problem of the delivery of oC beets beels to the thc factories has been solved by establishing slicing stations at at points from twelve to twenty live ml distant and connecting them ther with mie the central factories by pipe lines Th beets from the time nel neighboring country are arc received at these slicing J. J stations where the Juice I Is extracted and treated with wilh wilha wih a mm I compo llon of lime after afler ater which It I I Is forced creed through the time pipes to lo the thc fac fac- ac- ac tories The Thc boot beet sugar Industry lr seems teems to lo be thoroughly established and time In Increased Increased increased in- in creased production Is steadily reducIng hug Ing Ing the amount of su sugar ar Imported from rom other Census Cenus Census bulletin No 01 Gl |