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Show A force of men are working at the factory cleaning and repairing the machinery. The people of Merrillan, Wis. are rejoicing re-joicing over the bright prospects for a sugar fartory there this year. Active work will bo commenced at once. The mother bucts on the Murdock farm have como up nicely and are now looking fine. It is a nice oven Btan.l. Thinning has began on some of the farms and will soon be in full blast and ovcry avuilablo boy in the country will bo dewn on his knees in the beef 3. Very encouraging reports have come from Pecos Valley, N. M. regarding the seed sent them from this district. It wasHoed produced hero last season and the report says it germinates better and quicker than any Beed they have used this year. Thoy havo just tele graphed An order for another ton of seed. Of the beets destroyed by tho wind here the company will loose about half of them. Thoy say that tho storm ruined 12 acres for them on tho bench and 25 acres in tho field on land on the souih side of tho creok. About 72 acres will no doubt have to bo replanted here. Tho company is furrowing the land preparatory to irrigating it before le-planling. le-planling. "To beet Bugar, or not to beet sugar that is tho question. Whether 'tis more economical to import our saccaharine from foreign hinds, or, by constructing factories of our own, to produce it at home?" is the way n Shukespoaroan lover puts it, At which tho ghost of Hamlet's father turned thrice in his grave, Itiiicou Weekly. ' . ., -' A'iK ... ',! |