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Show Sugar Beets in Iowa Profs. G. i:. Patrick and O. H. Pagel-sn, Pagel-sn, of tl o low n Agricultural Collego Kxcrlinent Station ot Ames, have been making a stm'.jjof slig-tr heels luljwn dining 1S0.1, tho losultsot which havo recently been published iu tlio Station Diiliolon, No. 23. The additional data secured indicates tho unquestioned possibility o successful beet culture nnd beet sugar production In lown, ns well ns moat of tho other Stntcs In tho Union. Thero wns on unexpected delay of n month In planting, tho beet seed not hnvlngarrivcd from Germany, nnd these gcutl-mieii believe thai tho result would have been better had tho seed been on hand icndy fnrlhu planthigat un enrllcr dntc. Tin- nvirngo of flfly-llvo H'ltnpie iilinhr ' ', i,.',' o.'i!i trimmed heels ut D ounces each, and sugar in the Wtiat 11 1)4 kt cent, or over 12 per cent, of sugar In the juice of tho beet, nnd the purity of the juitoat 70.10. Wo seo hero at onco ns good, or holler sugar making material than tho uvirngoof what wo havo In Louisiana, and with low priced wheat and low priced corn.it would seem crrlimlv who for Hie farmers farm-ers of lown tolurify their ngricultnro by enpiging In sugar beet cultivation mill beet sug.ir manufacture. Louisiana l'hHltr. |