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Show BEET SUGAR ITEMS. Interesting News from Various - Sources. Contracts are being made in California to tend bei'tb for 00c a ton. Pecos Va'ley farmers will grow 2500 acres of beets this year. Oregon is to have a beet sugar factory with u capacity of 000 tons n day. Spring eeenis to be opening up and our f'irinera are getting -ready for their beet crop. lk'ot sugar factories in New Mexico are to be exempt from taxation for six years. This is a wise move A sample of beets grown in the proinceof Nonosk, Russia, contained :J0.63 p-r cent of sugar- l.ehi is going to have plenty of water this Glimmer and this indicates well for the sugar beet crop. The efforts ot tho Springvjlle people to secure a sugar factory is causing the people of Fayson to wake up and con-eider con-eider this important subject. Aue tra'iti is the last country to go in for beet culture. The government will aid in tho const' uuting of a .'150 ton factory in tho colony of Victoria. ' Those interested in the sugar industry at Springvillo held an enthusiastic meeting last week. They are endeavoring endeavor-ing to secure the aid of tho adjoining towns in their efforts to secure a sugar factory. Beet 6Ugar factories sluuld soon be dotting the country because Congress will afford Protection to the domestic! sugar industry.'" It will be a goodjtlm! for tho country when farmOrs can selj their beets at the village factory and buy tho sugar that baa been made there. Economist. Some of the Lake View farmers are kicking at raising beets at the present prices. They are mistaken, however, m thinking that the factory people want to "do" them. The mnnaeement renliscs that tho fanners and factory must work in harmony to insure success The Pecos Valley sugar company have got out some excellent instructions for beet raisers and give about the same advice to farmers there as bas many times been given here regarding how to successfully niiso this important crop. A. copy is furnished with every contract they issue. If theyurecaiefully followed greater success will attend their labors in that valley and will continue to show the world that irrigated beeis are n success. |