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Show gfjfej B Not Fifty Tons Per Acre- H In our issue of Dec. 5 vc had H the following in our editorial col B H A Tt ibune dispatch from Rocky H Ford says: Henry Hiasman from H his prize acre of ground, gt fit) H tons and 800 lbs of beets which H tested 27.4 per cent sugar netting H him $400 per acre. H When wc published the above B wc did not believe it and since H t'nn we have seen a list of farmers H who made the best success raising B beets for Rocky Ford and wiio H contested for the i-aCre prize of- H fercd by the Orange udd farmer. H The name of Mr." llissman is not H on the list It also shows that B the highest per cut of sugar is B 20.7 and 87 per cent the highest H purity. The greatest tonnage is H- 39 tons 624 lbs. grown on one H ncre by D. V. Burrell of Rocky B Ford. The uverge sugar per B cent on this pnze acre was 14.6. H Beets arc bought thei c on a slid- B ing scale so that these brought B him $4 a ton or a total of $160 07. H Doubtless many farmers in Utah H, could have selected an acre which SH would have given as good returns. H We cannot imagine what the H object of thu wi iter of such a stat- H meut could have been unless he H had an idea that it would catf.h the eye of some congressman who H is in favor of taking the tariff off H suar and worn a hardship on the H beet sugar industry in the United H States. |