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Show We arc pleased to welcome the Norfolk, Neb. News to our exchange ex-change table. It comes from a beet sugar district and is working hard for this important industry, which has done so much for that state. It has the following to say about growing beets : "After the experience of the past few years, it will be difficult to to discover a farmer in this locality, no matter what he may believe politically, who will not admit that beet growing is the most profitable crop ever grown upon Nebraska soil. An acre of ground planted to beets will produce from 10 to 15 tons, worth at the market price in Norfolk from $50 to $75. Suppose the cost of production and harvesting is $25 an acre, a high estimate, then the crop has netted the farmer from 25 to $50 an acre. What other crop could be selected that would yield him him as much? None, absolutely none. It has been demonstrated, besides, that beets are the suiest crop that can be raised, because the' readily adapt themselves to the season. They will grow in dry weather or they will do well in wet weather. And always the farmer knows just what he will receive for his crop, knows that he will find a ready market, before be-fore a seed is planted in the spring, whurcar with other pioducts the whole feaion is a game of chance." !- 1.1 I II I J III' |