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Show Vi "YPx Good Prospects. V IT Though we have hnd a very dry spring the condition of the licet crop ia very favorable and in tfioslt caeca it looks 1 a though n good crop will be raised i The thinning Is. drawing to ti close in I t Jicarlyall districts. In Lake Shore the ' rop A'ight be a little better. At Provo a field' belonging to T. Vincent will be partly lost as there was not enough mojsturo is the eoil to a.tart germination. i 1 Oneof the best fields in thidi&trict is owned by Charles Turner and is mar 4 ' tho asylum. Eft has a splendid stand K ' -and tbe beets look fine. The beets in v " , the Springvillo district are larger than 'any as the sandy, warm soil is favorable 4o early growth. The fluid belonging to Kichard Thorn contains a splendid atand" and the largest beets. Those in tliclowor fields are not ho early and HOmore not thinned. Tlieio will notbc any lost n this, district, At Mapleton the dry weather has been particularly bard on them. The soil is light and sandy and dried out very quick ilot giv-( giv-( 5ng the seed a good chance to germinate and some fields had to be irrigated and replanted. Generally the prospects for a geod crop are not as good there as last year, b;:t though the crop may be thin in places the bee,ts do not usna'ly grow very rank on the soil but it is some of the best in the country for sugar beets. The farmers are not discouraged at all, jjjg , ., , imt are out in the fields doing all they ? an to help the crop along. They have H tjonio fine farming country and the i$f j, j lovely and comfortable homes bIiow t 4 ihat the farmers aie prospering. |