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Show . , , i , . Raising SugariBect Seed. Hi , "ThoTJtah Sugar company have here- H tofore imported all tfieirsugnt-beet seed , from either Fiance or Germany, just ns H -all other beet sugar people in the United Kv Slates have donl. Such imported seeds .cost, laid down in Utah, from 14 to 17 'Centd per pound, and i3 sold to farmers c 'on credit, witlfbut interest' dnring'the D J growth and delivery of bevts to the H " factory. Fa merr nro' cl)hrgod .only H " .about the cost dTtheedd. yiie.queatioiK Eg . , , rni). -of prudueing Beeilrhere has bei. one of H deep study and experiment, and has i (proven quite sjejceajful in operation. B r ' In the season of ISilO tho company B Tailed about nine tons of teed, while the Iffi ' Wk couiug season they expect to produce . .about twenty-five tons. To do th!s they H 'selected the very finest and best beets H -raised, to the extent of fifty-seven tons ' These beets show a polarization of ISVj B . percent auoroie and S5 per cent purity, B which, is snid to be the highest, known. B 'These "mother" beets, as they cu'i fl them, were ha J vested with the tops left jHj on, and were then packed in dry sand jB o as to keep the beets from touching H ' -each other, and then left to await plant- B ing. Great care has to ba taken in stor- I . ing beets. Here and there are tubes so B iplaced in the sand as to pet mil the M dropping down of the thermometer to H -tell whether the sand and beet pyramids B -are too wirm or too cold. It took three B .men two months to pack away these MJ 'beets. In March they will bo taken out B 'l and each one tested to see if it still re- B - tains its strength and purity, after Bjfc- , jg , -, which they will Ikj planted over a m nffrnwr llL'' i mM'mmrtll'i "' !r'wenty-acro field and properly cultivated. LIJIBfiBffMMBHM i'f 7T?iW!; been sent to California and .New Mexico Wb '' ' -to be tested, and now everything looks B ' favorable for sugnr-beot seed becoming j! . 4i homo product and for Utah to carry B -oir the honor of being the lirst State H ' to raise sugar-beet seed It certainly am is gratifying to know that beet seed B raised hero is superior to that im- B , ported . Mfl H . , Jtf. W Ingalls. chief engineer, and H Henry A. Vnllez, chemist, ofthoLuhj Bj -sugar works, have invented an auto- jB' matic diffusion battery which promises jfl a large saving in the manufacture of Bj -sugar . It means to that factory the SJ ' .saving of tho labor of twelve men eah jBj twenty-four hours. Beeidcs the expense We of elevating tho pulp and pumping the B . extracted juices so high as has hereto- fl ' fore been required under the old system. Jfi It also produces far better results in ex- 'jfl tracting sugar from tho pulp. Tribune 9B |