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Show This week Mr. Herbert Myrick has a splendid article in Brad-street's Brad-street's on "The Beet-sugar Industry In-dustry nnd its Prospects," among other things he says: During the past ten years sugar beets have been grown repeatedly in a great many places in about all the states and territories west of New England and north of the thirty 'fifth parallel, in all sorts of soil and climate. Thousands of analyses of beets have been made by the United Stales Department of Agriculture and by the varjous experiment stations. In some states the expeiiment Stations hare done a remarkably comprehensive compre-hensive work along these lines, notably in New York, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Washington, Colorado, Utah and California. Over much of this J vast area, including also Kentucky, 1 cniii'sacc, 111c viruiuis, tiiiu jiu- bably North Carolina, it has been conclusively shown that beots of proper quality can be grown in profitable quantities sufficient to fully supply any number of well-i located sugar factories that is to say, ten to twenty tons per acre of beets containing 12 to 18 per cent or more of sugar, with an average coellicicnt of rllr'lJ' f 80 per cent or above that. |