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Show A Large Beet Patch. An Eighty Aero Field Filled with I Flourishing, Growing Sugar Beets. I A News scribe on Sunday visited ouo lot the llnestsujrar beet fields in tho country, cou-ntry, mid prob.ttly tho largest. It is tucntrd on tho Charles E. Waggoner farm, six miles west of Fremont on the pike. Thero are 80 acres containing nothing but beets and the sight of tho growing vegetable in one solid stretch, running a mllo back from tbe pike, is, indeed a beautiful iind wonderful spectacle, spec-tacle, crucially to thoso who have ntver seen a fiolJ of growing beets. As before stated, this farm was rented rent-ed to tho Fremont Sugar Beet Co., composed com-posed of Mayor Jackson, John Sheman, V. D, Butraan, W. 13. rroctor. J. ' Youngman, Charles Waggoner and L. ' A. Dickinson. Tho gentlemen secured the service of Mr. J. D. Woodhousj, practical beet grower from Utah, to superintend the growing of tho beets, and are well pleased with the noik done by the gentleman, Mr. Woodbouse says he nover saw a finer field of btets. It repulred 1200 pounds of seed to plant the farm and from tho time the first seed wob placed in the rich black soil, the beets haye grown briskly until now, and beetB weighing from three to four pounds can be found in largo quantities. quan-tities. The pretty green tops, grnce-fully grnce-fully waving in tho oir, looks more 11 ko a well kept lawn than beet patch. The Fremont Beet Co. has already expended more thab 1200 in caring (or the crop, but they oxpect to realize haudsomely from the experiment. Next year the same gentlemen expect to put out 100 acres in beets, having leabed the farm for a period of three years. The above facts concerning tuo largest larg-est beet tract in the county is but n fair exomplo of the eugar beet industry, as it has thus far progressed in Sand-mfcy Sand-mfcy conn'yj ' Everywhere the hcets jwe looklng-flne arid ' beet raiser' 'are I jubilant over tho success of their lirst year's experiment. Tho grower of bt-ets have paid oul thousands of dollar-) for help during the summer, and many Fremont boys and girls, as woll as men havo made nice money and enjoyed stimulating aud hoalthy employment during tho summer sum-mer tnontliB working in the beet fiells. Onu young lady has regained lost health by raising several acres of beets and attending to them herself. Mr. Woodhouso says the above farm was in a very bad condition when he arrived. It was stroked with corn stalks, and had many stumpB of old trees upon it. To clear away the Btumps he had to use about 1003 lhs oi dymauito. |