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Show ' M. A. Lunnof Nebraska is among tho H 'farmers of Colorado talking up sugar H beet culture. The farmers around H Greeley will likely form an association H and experiment in growing beets in H 1808 with a view of working, fqr a factory H At fie site of the now sugar factory at H Loa Alamitos, CM. they have secured a M flowing well at n depth of 443 feet M Recently a lively speckled trout was H tiisen from the overilow epout of Huh H 'well and considerable guessing js going oii as to how, it gottheie. t H '(tThe distribution of, tho sugar Weetteod t VH lms been commenced 'this weekthwigh jM now one being rejfjlveiP dlmy.nim "'"!r company lias Hiu-ceeded iifnlistiug be- -M tween 500 and OOJ farmers in the nr'sing H of beets tor tho f.i-story .this year, and H though the average acrago to each H farm is not large, tho total foots up to a H very satisfactory amount. Wisconsin H Leader. H Slowly and not always safely tho M cultivating of the sugar bent is becoming M a permanent farming interest in tho M United States a country which con- JM Humes so much sugar that it must still H get moat of its raw material from abroad, M although FranccJ mil Gci many ami other H back-number countriea have fully or M n..nrlv met their homo demand Oer H nearly mui- tuuu !.. h here the trouble is that the' fanner M assumes that any I'ind of soil ought to M produce anything that will gr6w from M seed. There can be no doubt, IVowevcr H that on proper soil, and within' easy M i each of a sjigar mill, thero is.a hand- H some profit for the growers of sugar M beets. Ono pot tion of California is H paying beet-farmers at the rate Of H twenty-five dollars per acre clear prolltf H which is more than any ono in other H StateB make on corn, wheat or cotton. H This is' a good year lor expeiimenting H everywhere, in a modest way, on sugar H beet culture, for a small area w ill kcop a JM sugar mill busy and tho new tariff law H will undoubtedly increase tho duty on H Imported sugars and consequently help H thobeetgrowers. Colliei's Weekly. H |