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Show beet" sugar items.' I Interesting it.ws from Various . H sources. H A Louisville, Ky. firm has written to H us tiiilung for information about tho , H sugar beet imittetry. H m -.H Some Benefits of a Sugar Factory- ('H The Rural Woihl writns it follows: H The Utah lic-t Sugar Co, of Lehi, Utah, M jiroduces 1,00U tons of sugar a year. Tho H growing of the beets and the making of H tin-sugar j.dves einploymonttoover, 1,000 .- tl periuuM. The home demand is sullicient .''' to keep Ihe more such factories in J oneratioii. r H The sugar contents is tiom 12 to 15 H per cent and the yield per acre from 15 I H to 11) tons Tiie betB fell from .'fS.oO to H t'l.oO per ton, depending upon quality. H Winter moisture is sullicient to goini- . M untethobued, and no irrigation is re- 'ijH quired until the plants are seven weekH B old. Three irrigations, by the furrow h H eyetem, are generally given during tho i H season. When the plant get above tho N-"H ground men and boys begin cultivating . aH and weeding. A crooked iron weeder, H fastened to the hand like a corn busker, H does the best work and the weeder gets H upon his knees as in onion culture M The small farmer, by the most in- H tensive eulttlie, reap from ten acres M what the ayei age big farmer docs from H I llfty acres. Theio sue fewer weeds in H i the beet fields ibau in anv other Utah H I crop, and the hind is thereby bciielitted- ll Beets ilo notimnoveiitjh theHoil as nuich , M'H oTth'e txll.jtTT louud in the western tr- H rigated laud? benefit, it cumcwhnt, still "1 lertilizHiri mi prove t Hit . yield very ml mateiially. 1 The Utah siiar factory requires H fiL'T.OOO wuiili of coal and coke H every year. Lime.stone, cotton M cloth and oilier materials, costing H '",000 per year and produced in Utah,; H are used in making and marketing ot H this product. One of the largest, cattluj H feeding yards in the State is operated' H in connection with the factory. ThnJ: H pulj) from -10,000 tons of tn ts is put'itF H large s'noj, and fed to ntock and hogs.- H It would be almost in'possible to M euumeiato the many advantages obTV H tainned by fur.ueis in the vicinity ofin' H beet factory J.abor foi UiousandB'on'1 H persons, home market for products,1 H plentv of cash, intensive an.i beneficial' 'H cultivation making an area of sinah l farms, and peace and prosperity, . may hoenunieinied as some of the blessings fro.n the production of' sugar beets'.' ,,' H (.Good foa Utah! Other .States will'not H let our Mormon brethien have all tho 'H good of Hiignr pioductiou fov vhltfs'ca.. . v . . H Willett&Gray.) TVH |