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Show SUGAR BEET CULTURE CUL-TURE IN UTAH. i Interesting Pupor On tho Sub-jooLWuiohtWaatoVlIftoi!flJoiii Sub-jooLWuiohtWaatoVlIftoi!flJoiii Keatl by Jtulgo II. II. Ilolnpjt at tlio Irrigation CongresH. Wlilio It Wns Not llenched On the -Program It Will Form n Part uf the Ofllulul l'roeocdlngs of the Congruj. InyJulKtt Hcury II Koltpp, ofOiIen, Utah i ?:" (Continued frotu'lust week.) A few ywars subsequent? In 1807, Hon, Dnid Ecrlcs, Hon, 'hijiuaB I). De, Hon. Fred J. Kichel nnd. in number ot other Ogdcn citizens concluded to ex-loud ex-loud the sitgtr Industry to northern Utah. Consequently tho Ogdon factory, having a daily.capacity of 40.1 tons, was e.-ected in 1 8'ja,'lw during thu s.un yenr theso gu iif 1 1 meiu-Mt Uo erected a Rimihir factory atlJurande, Oiegon, jt being tlio only beeTiiory then und now existing In that StaTIr Three years later Mr, Eccles and his ussociuteH reefed ,n COO tjn plant at Logan, Utah, and nll'of these establishments am still operating nud hao leen successful from thei'omuicnccmut. Hoaldei these cs-tnblisliiuente, cs-tnblisliiuente, the Utnh Sugar company hansinco multiplied its phiutH until today to-day they operate two fnctoiies nnd three additional slicing stations The promoters of this company have nlso established a factory at Idaho Falls und intend next season 'to erect an ndililiounl one nt Fremont, Idaho. The historical infantile discourage-moiits discourage-moiits nnd roverees of tho Utah sugar interests (Hirer Utile from those ex pjrlenced in other beet sugar states. California, for Instance, in 1870, outproduced out-produced flvo thousand bags of sugar, an ninouut less than n week'n output from our Ogden factory, und us lata iih lb80 the sugar production of all the coinllned factories of California only aggregated about 21,000 bags, or less than n month's output from our Ogdon plant During tho so-called dormant period of the beet sugar iudustiy in tho United Males, between thu )enrsl870 nnd 1C87, great Ilnnnclal loss came to those who had attempted the establish-meat establish-meat of this enterprise and it Is Interesting Inter-esting to note that not only did tho emit sugar Interests attempt to imprest: cnpl Ul with tho futility of maintaining beet sugar as ,i piofllnble Investment, but thu beet Intorudts were temporarily wholly sidetracked by the attempts to extract sugar from othor agricultural products. Titus hero in Utah for a whllo wo tried unsuccessfully to produce pro-duce sorghum us a competitor to cnue sugar, while in Cullforniu they us signally sig-nally failed in an attempt to produce sti;ar float water unions. In all this struggle, however, the far- t uicr had nevor been n serious financial sulTerer. The price to ttm grower of 1 1. 26 to t 76 per foil of bcetvns established es-tablished ntn time-when sugar sb'd at $16.00 per hag In fcMi Francisco, ulid to this dale, when ttngar sells at, about one-third that tuiKvunt,- tboprlco for beets is still tho snmc. TkuaJlhb ngri cultural profits of this' crop'Jfte not only not changed with tlio decline In tho value of sugar, hut becnusu of the increased quantity now produced per acre, tho farmer Is today renpinv n proportionately pro-portionately greater benefit Jroui the sugar Industry than am tho owners of the factories. ?J Ton iears n?o, live or six tyjis per aero was an aieiuge crop; today two or threo tlmog that amntint constftufes tho ncrage, whllo a harvest pf Iwpty to thltty tnm per ncre Is not twuilroiii-moii twuilroiii-moii occtirrunce. It has becmRTciuon-stratcd becmRTciuon-stratcd that lirlgatlon Is u iitosllmport-ant iitosllmport-ant factor in this increase, bnliU lias ulso devnloped in tho cu1tttroVp this crop, tuoro so than with any oilier, that irrigation may become n sourcaja reat danger Tho natural tundoucyjld citJig to any substance ot viiIup, whetjier absolutely ab-solutely necessary or not, has'litjftiaiiy iustnnrcri uaticcd fariiifistooverdjtlgaie llicircroH, So far ns tho uttgarbet is , (.iincerued, this ntothoil lias nljoiily causedaunitrfulnithholdlngof beiuflls from othrrs without any corresponding advantages to tho giowcr, hutUtl bus had the effect of riiflterially rejUKlng tin) ludii'trlal vnluc of thn cro)MJt i ery dillii'iili to IinpNKS this fttflnihuii i he tuiii h of thu (ainicm. The htolrit here nt imiuiK time) tesorted toTlfl r out oxperlmeiitH, having for theffi.ot) ject the ithholdlug of water ffoiujtln crops at improper and unprofitable times, but in this m titer theifjnei much to be learned by the 'niSEi' ' slrloiiH of becoming it siicci'ssfjBbi't ptulttcer. AiiutheV tiling tliatwcHfp w Iciimol here in Utnt, is tlint nfafrlili beets urn not sitccatilully or proMuriij raised upon nny largo tract orlaSTSIln this country thudimatlu coiidlliiwrt nidi that but a very shottttliwSVjtih i sprirns can bedevlleil to plaiijgH?! I K'ld. ('oiisettieutly ibu rop5Jjf ibounho bame lime, niiil"t hWprovuiij not only itnprolltablo but wholly unsatisfactory un-satisfactory to emplo) tempornrv lab- ; orurc, not otherwise engaged on tho ; farni) to perform this necessary, work at. the propjr nud limited llmu up ta th; j picseut. ' M For tliosu icaeons nei lior large tarntjt i ere. nor Sllnr I'nmimni.'X ifrautm. 1 ir.. Jt amounts of beets for their own use, htvii been nbla to produce beets as prolltnbly, ts have the farmers whs liavocoiiteuteui themselves with the cultivation of not to ox-ced twenty acres In such sin ill tracts, thu ordinary amount of labof employed upon other puts of tho farm is qttlto sufficient to perform the quick work necessary in the ssoding, thinning and lint vesting of tho beet sugar crop iinl under such circumitsncos the far,-mcr far,-mcr and his family get the entiio piq-ductivo piq-ductivo value of his hind, unattended by the necsss.iry Individual losses fiom employing temprary and transient, labor. Tho fact that most of the. farmers in Utah are men of sin ill liold-Iii'1 liold-Iii'1 ha been ono oi the moH import- int faotorj iu bringing abiut the present pres-ent successful results ot Utah sugaf lieot culturt, and to th!s fact iiUj li attributable the furtliei fact that Utafij todny stiindu nt tho head of tin beut sugar culture, both as to the great! ylald perncre, ns well as the greatest, profit per acre. Utah and vicinity today produces iiDOtitl'OO.OdO tons of beets, w ith an out. put ot about foity million pounds of sugar, half of which is consumed in tills State, and tho other half of which is distributed to our nrlgliboi lug status, or shipped to Mlssouil Kivei consumers Clearly such tin industry must demuid the attention of the people nnd niujt! encourage thu industrious farmer to coinoto thisiiild, but profitable conn-, try. No other rrop in any othoi country can oiler sratcr permanent induced menu foi its cultivation than can tlifij sugnr beet. In the language of thag j greatest friend which the beet sugar in- I terest has cier had, the Hon. Janiof Wilton, Secretary of Agriculture : I It is n certain crop; i It is a cash crop, with a price fixed! befote planting; $ It is n ctop which encourages imS provemonts iu tho methods of fnruilngi all other crops; & It is a crop which improvos tho saloj. nnd mutkut value of other crops ; It ii a crop in which tlioru is niorffl monoy than in nlnioit nnyothorcrop;M And it is n ciop which doterior.it tho value of n farm less than any other, crop. js |