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Show Bcel Culture. Kdltor Pyramfd: In connection with an cdltoral which appeared in the last Issuo oi tho Pyramid, tho writer wishes to glyo tho farmers a few cold facts In relation to the sugar beet culture Tho Pyramid's odvico was that If yoo liad lnndo mistakes In tho past, to try ind oxperlcnco by them that your Ittboi might bo better paid in the futuro j and this can bo douo in tho culluie ol beets. Tho beet crop of Spanish Fork last year paid tho farmers over $40,000 for 800 acres of land beets. The crop averaged between 12 and 13 tons per aero, foi which they recloved ft.CO per ton, ano they cstlmoto that abovo alt expense! their land netted them a clear profit of f22 per aero. The crop was almost exclusively tin w hito beet, and farmers will find that tho limited amount of this as a change makes splendid feed for stock. For comparison, wo will say tho aver-jgo aver-jgo yield of wheat is. 35 bushels per acre and tho nverago price per bushel is 76 ecu's, which will bring you $20.25 per acre for your land. . Now, wo will say your boot crop yields you 10 tons per acre and tho prico Is only f3.C0per ton. You would recelvo $35, for an aero of beets against $20.25 for nn ncre of wheat. Now 1 thini you will agree with mo that I havo made lay estimates in thn wheat crortnbovethe avcrage,.both as to quantity and prico, nnd I have moile tho estlmato low on beets, compared to what was done last year nt Spanish Fork. Hut wo still havo a difference of $8.76 per acre in favor of beet culturo. Do not understand mo that every one should raise bectsor any othcrjerop exclusively, ex-clusively, but so proportion your crops that you can get the best results for your labor. Makojtho, supply ot grain less and you will thoreforetjucrcaso tho demand de-mand for it and consequently inrreaso the price of it, ns supply and demand regular prices. Wo bolleve it will bo beneficial for tho farmers to study these questions and think, that after n careful Investigation you will bo nblo to see that you should at least givn tho beet culturu n trial, as they aro cash when harvistcd, which is mote than you can say of grain, nnd we bcllevo that they can bo raised nnd put on tho cars at olcaa, cost per aero than grain, and tho'fafmcr should rcalixo the greatest possiblo profit for his labor it ho nlUfst lw iicrrwfnl. .. GnAKQEH, Sit. I'leasent Pyramid. Tho possibilities ot beet culturein tho west, especially in Kansas and Vebraska arc shown by the decision of n Polish' syndicate, headed by Count Lubicnskl, to bring 200 families of Polish emigrants tp this country Jto engage Injtho growing I of Biigar'.lieets in Nebraska. The con" tract calls for tho erection of two factor ies in thenlute of the manufacture of sugar in addition to those already at Grand Island and Norfolk, which havo produced this year 0,000,000 pounds cf sugar. Tho negotiations for tho now cn-tcrpri("i cn-tcrpri("i wero conducted by tho Commercial Commer-cial club of Omaha, n worthy counterpart counter-part of the famous Kum8iib City Com-inci Com-inci clnl club, nnd furnish n good example of tho results to bo obtained by the right kind of work. The Champion says that some 00 men aro now employed enlarging the Chlno sugar factory. They are nearly all residents resi-dents of that vicinity and thn money paid out will be circulated in local business busi-ness channels. The beet secdors n.-e now busy at work pntiugNn the beet si-cd. The farmers havo prepared tho land and put In the best condition to receive tho seed. Tliojr should ho congratulated for tho marked improvement they havo niadu in thu cultivation of their farms slnro the Introduction' In-troduction' of the sugar induttiy. Not only In preparing their land (or tho beet ciop, but for other crops. If they con-tiiuiu con-tiiuiu to thus improve their land, Lehi farmers'and their farms will bo among the best in the territory. Tho beets that are ol the necessary (luallty for seed will be planted on tha land of Mr. William Taylors, and taken great care of, and should tho seed provo to be of a good quality, no doubt but this small beglnlnj will be the starting point of another industry for Utah, Wo hope It will prove ft success for should It do so it will mean thousands thous-ands of dollars for our Territory, which aro now scut to Germany each year for sugar seed, Layton, April 2. Mr. Austin of tho Utah Sugar Co. was hero last (reek to sec about the farmois raining tbeeln this year. Stanford. ' ' Mr. C. A. Granger cnllcil at'thls oftlco on Wednesday, lie sahlthnt whilo on his visit to Cal. hu visited Chiuo, Alvsr-ado Alvsr-ado and Wathbn'ville. Tho sugar factories factor-ies there are much larger than ours, but lie is more pleased with ours now than ho was bo tore going on his trip, Tho pfiiplo tlieie wcro very kind in showing tho details of their factory and how they cultivated tho boeta. Ho greatly enjoyed en-joyed tho visits and alio tho kindness ol tho people. |