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Show B B i W Utah Sugar Men. Wo bad n pleasant nnd interesting visit laBt Friday and Saturday from two gentlemen withwhotneacommon industry indus-try and llko interests as those ot Chino had created n sort of fellow feeling. They were O. A. Granger, superintendent of tlio Lehl (Utah) brot sugar factory, and Geo. Austin, agricultural superintendent of tlio Utah Sugar Company, owning that factory. They wcro on n trip through Collfomla to install a sugar exhibit nt tho Midwinter Fair, and visiting partc-ularly partc-ularly the different sugar factories and plantationsjrt this Stale. On Saturday they inspected the manufacturing plant here, and expressed great admiration for it. Tboy were afterwards Bhown about the country, particularly tho beet growing sections, which they wsro interested inter-ested in examining. Both aro genial, whole-souled gentlemen, whomo it is a pleasure to meet. From them we learned learn-ed somewhat of tho condition of the sugar industry in Utah, and tho work of the factory at Lehi. When the factory was built at Lehl; three years ago, n great effort was required re-quired to get tho farmers ot tho surrounding surround-ing country to raise beets, theyconslder-Ing theyconslder-Ing it monlal, alow work Tills was to pronounced that Mr, Austin said of them that "when they could raiso beets on horseback ttiey would all ngrco to do so." However, after tlio experience of the first year or two, in which they profited by the value of tho crop and learned that beet farming was really an interesting scientific branch of agriculture, I hoy be-camo be-camo anxious to engage in it. And now the company would find no difficulty in contracting for a much larger acreago than tboy are able to use. Tho Lehl factory is ot 360 tons capacity, capac-ity, and refines all its sugar, which it markets almost wholly in tho Territory. Tho product ot the last campaign was 3,87;,ll)0 pounds, y Irrigation It necessary and Is practiced on all beets grown in Utah. Tlio water is applied when thu beets arc about two-thirds two-thirds grown. About two, nnd never moro than threo applications arc given, and thoso in quite small quantities. licet planting commences there about ibe first of April, nnd is mostly done Inside In-side ot four or five weeks. Harvesting commences never earlier than about the 10th ot September, after which tho crop must be harvested before the ground freezes. Tho work of thinning and topping top-ping is dono by white boys no Chinamen China-men aro employed. Tlio price patdls T per Ion, no beets under 11 perccntvbelng accepted, neither-tlnne. weighing moro than 3K pounds. -ja' licet culture in Utah lias induced a cultivation ot tho soil mora thorough than has ever before, or for any other crop, been practiced there, and Mr. Granger conBide.;that should tho ia! liters lit-ers not mako any larger profit from it than from other crops (which they aro), tho establishment of tho industry tliero would bo of Inestimable bene lit in educating edu-cating tint farmers to rultivato tho soil for the best results. Chino Ciawijiim. |