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Show vVhat Others Say. f The Rural Worl.i in apoaking of tho cultivation and handling of sugar bcet has tho following to say about thO' industry. here: , "In Utah .the .one factory produces over 5,000,000 pounds of nice, while granulated Biigar every year. Moro than one thousand men, mow en and children are employed in producing an-1 harvesting tho beets and converting the saccharine roots into sugar. Tho local, home demand is sufficient to keep ,lva more such facfoi'ios in operation and no). flfilp ond pound of sugu'r from the state'. "Whero the soil is approprinte and the cultivation is correct hydrocarbon is gathered in sufficient quantities to give the tubers from 12 to Jo per rent o angar making properties. The tonnage per acre depends upon eoil, climiitc and cultivation, but generally averages fifteen fif-teen to eighteen tons m Utah, Now Mexico and California. Tho beets sell for from )3.50 to $1.50-per ton, depending depend-ing upon quality. "Winter moisture is sufficient to germinate the seed, and no irrigation is required until the plantw nro seven weeks old. Threo irrigations, by the furrow Byslom, are ponorally giyen during dur-ing the season, "yhen the plants got above thoground men anil "boys begin cultivating and weeding, and soon thin out to a 'Tcspcctablo distance between 'tho roota. A crooked iron welder fastened to tho hand, like a corn busker, does the best work, nnd the weedcr gets down upon his knees as in onion cul-tuio. cul-tuio. "Close cultivation ia nccosaary in tho beet fields, and thou tho lesson of intensive inten-sive farming aro learned and applied. small farmirs, owning ta'lftyVr thirty acres. They put in the'nercsenry labor on their crops, and leap from ten ncreB what tho average big farmer gets from fifty. Tho woods are kept down more in tho beet field than in any Utah crop, and tho laud is thereby beufitted; every year a good yield of heels is hurveUed. "UeetB do not impoverish', the soil as inuch.a3 fcthcr crops, lrat' fertilizers improve im-prove the yield" very materially. The best crop of beetB yet harvested in Utah weighed out tbirty-nino tons per aepj. which of couraO is double tne average among many faruaeia. The beets absorb much of tho alkali found in western irrigated lands, and of cotirso benefit the soil proportionately. "The Utah sugar factory requires $2?,000 worth of coal and coko ovory year. Limcstore, cotton cloth and other materials, coating $25, (100 per year, and produced in Utah, are used in the making and marketing of this product. pro-duct. One, of tho Inrgoet catto feeding yards in the state is operated in connection con-nection with tho factory. The pulp from 40,000 tons of beots i3 put in largo Hiloa and fed to stock and hogs. It woulii, bo almost nn impossibility to onumeralo the many advantages obtained by farmers in tho vicinity of a beet factory. Labor of thousands, home market for productn, plenty of cash, intpnsivo and beneficial cultivation, culti-vation, nn ora of small iarinb, and pb.vo and prosperity may be enumerated as somo of- the blessings from the production of sugai bectu." |