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Show BEET SUGAR ITEMS. Interesting News from Various Sou rces. Ereo seed for sugar bfets is being distributed to farmers in Ohio. Tire Spnr.gville branch of the. sugar association now has a membership of fifty. Wyoming has a new law ' exempting from taxation lam's and factories employed em-ployed in t'le beet sugar industry. The Alamedo sugar couipany will en-largo en-largo its factory and hopes to handle 800 tons of beets a day the coining campaign. cam-paign. Tiie Washington legislature has appropriated ap-propriated $60,000 for premiums on sugar from home gto.vn beets at 1 . ent per pound. The sugar importers are beginning to get in their work, as well as the wool men. When the new tariff bill goes into effect there will be foreign goods enough in tho country to meet the demands of many months. Denver News. To encourage experiment work the lown experiment station at Ames has 'decided to supply farmers with BUgar beet seed free of charge to test this year. If the crop can ho readily grown attempts will be made to secure sugar factories. Yesterday two Messrs Goetz, Mr. West and Mr. Summers of Iowa were visitors to the Sugar city. Their object was to investigate the sugar industry. They visited our factory and, of course, were delighted with what they saw. They think the location and. surroundings cannot be surpassed. They say there is a bright future for this sweet industry. indus-try. We think so too, and when it does come Lehi is going to get in on tho ground floor. Mr. West is interested in the Bear river canal. The gentlemen left for Salt Lake over tho It. G. V. Tho can Francisco Chronicle says the Idea is gaining ground that tho prosecution prose-cution ol the beet sugar industry in California Cali-fornia will prove more profitable than mining for gold, and men with capital are investigating tho subject with the purpose of investing. Our contem porary further remarks that it takes a large sum of money to prpvide a beet sugar plant and operate it, but the success suc-cess already achieved by those who have gone into tho business will tempt others ; and says it is not a rash prediction to make that in the near future many beet sugar factories will bo profitably aper-ated aper-ated in California, and not a few of them will bo einduoted on the joint stock plan, so as to permit small investors to' take an interest iu them. In Nebraska tho improved machinery and methods have greatly reduced tho cost of beets delivered on the cars. In 1803, at Ames, the cost was $3.00 per ton, the yield 13 tons per aero in 1804, $3.80. In 1895 they were fed to stocK and in 18V0 tho cost delivered on tho cars was $1.50, the yield being 20 tons per acre. This shows a wouderful progress prog-ress in the matter of cutting down the expenses ot culture nnd harvesting. Beets are now dug with a plow which has a share made of a piece of steel in the shape of the letter U. This plow cuts oil' tho ema'll roots and lifts tho beets so that the pullers raise them without with-out effort. The "topuors" follow, cutting cut-ting off tho tops just below their point of exit. Tho wagon follows into which tho roots aro loaded. Contracts for tho care of tho field have been made as low as $22.50 per acre which glvs an average ave-rage of profit with 10 tons to tho acre at $4 per ton of about $35 per aero. Ol course every farmer has to m.iko hie own experiment at first. i - 1 Mr. George Austin goes to West Jor. dan and Itivoiton to-day to inspect the beet drills and make arrangements for planting. A drove of sheep will go from tho factory fac-tory feeding yards to tho Salt Lake City market this week. They may also ship some to Denver.- |