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Show J13BET SUGAR ITEMS. Interesting News from Various Sources. This year the Nebiaska sugar factory is contracting for beets as near the factory as possible. Beets for the Grand Island factory will all bo grown in the county. W-i want to raise in this country something besides wheat and com and hogs. We want varied industries so that when one fails the people will derive de-rive support from others. When wo think of sending $100,000,000 to Europe for sugar made out of beets we realize how we are impoverishing ourselvee. Think of spiiidiug the bulk of that in wages for American working men. Be Moines, Iowa, "Stato Register." The report from the Norfolk, Nob. sugar factory is better than usual this year as tliy have had an especially good run. The farmeys are freely signing sign-ing contracts for the coning season. They work Hard for the industry in that State and this year have leaped the results. re-sults. Our boil and climate is much better than that of Nebraska and we? want to take advantage of it for there are few places in this western country can touch Utah for raising beets. Let us have more factories and give the farmers e chance to raise more beets. The factory people have determined to cut down the acreage of beets for tho coming season but are having' quite a 1 time to enforce this rule as so many farmers want to increase their acreage and others to start in the business as they can see this crop has been the salvation of many farmers. The days of experiment are over and we are now on a progressive road and the best methods will be considered to increaso the tonnage ton-nage and sugar contents, If any of our farmers can advance tne cause by giving giv-ing their experience we will be pleased to publish it. The colossal fools are not all dead yet. Some of them want the Michigan legislature legis-lature to abolish the agricultural college and devote its buildings and 040 acres of land to a beet sugar plant to be operated by state's prison convicts! And a Nebraska legislator has put in a bill for a sugar factory to be built by tho state and (of course) to bo run by a lot of politicians! Both are good plans for givjng the industry a black eye. Both schemes would utterly fail. And its for reducing the competition of con. vict labor by setting it raising beets not much 1 Is there's any class of workers who must bo spared such competition it is our fanners. Strange what a lot of idiotic schemes aro advanced ad-vanced to take away from the fa.mers anythirigthat promises to bo some help to them, Tho place to employ convicts is in building good roads that won't be had in any other way Orange Judd Farmer. Corn is selling at in cents per bushel in Nebraska, and tho farmors down thoro aro burning it for fuel, as they find it cheaper ' fuel than coal. It is said tnat the move on the part of the farmers will lesson the doinand for coal in tho neighborhood of .200,000 tons. Tho "Wyoming coal fields will feel tho shortness in tho demand tho most. A memorial will moro than likely bo soul from our legislature asking congress, to open up the 'Ft. Orittondon military reservation for'sottlemont. This embraces em-braces most of tho land in Cedar valloy. : M , ji-i- |