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Show BEET SUGAR" ITEMS, 1 Interesting News from Various 1 sources. . H Yesterday the painters began work an M I the sugar company's float. J i Insect pests hayu been causing injury l to beets in France and Belgium and the M 1 crop ia making but slow progrcse. 1 Tho sugar campaign has opened in H J California. H The night operator at the R. G. W. was taken on" on Thursday night, tho H excursion rush being over. H There ia nut little beet pulp in the H factory silos. It will take but a few H more days to feed it out. H There is a decrease of .'!, pr cent in H the acreage of snuar beets in Ktiropo H compared with last year's acreage. H Messrs. L. H. ISfoorcand John Whipplo H are working on tho tloat now being built H at the ' sugar factory. When in the HH paiade it will show :i beet wheel, a granulntor nnd a pan in operation. The sugar waiehouse at the factory that gave way under the large load of sugar, will be taVcn down nnd rebuilt on a rock instead of a woodem foundation. H A number of distinguished gentlemen, comprising a delegation sent by thu Queen of Holland to investigate thu H beet sugar industry of the United States H visited this district last week spending 'lie day heie. They were shown .through H the factory .anil fields by-Uie factory, .H eople and enjoyed the visit ery mueli. H Tli .vcro particularly interested in our H success in growing beet seed, tin industry H v .uch tliey thought we would, be afraid H to try, but nvi.ait to the tlejds of beet seed H soon proved to them that we are making H a success of it They will spend a week in Utah and then go on to California. H The two laige outside stttling tanks at H the factoiy have boon drained and the H syrup nas gone down tho creek. This H is bo mo third pyrup which was heated and run in these tanks home five years H ago to see if it would fuithcr crystalizo und settle. The result is about six H inches of sugar crystals in the bottom of each tank which will be lefiued when, the factory starts Ono tank had began, H to c:i7c so this otic hab been taken out- H but the other remnius intact. The H results show the experiment to bo not a H very great, success. It is unfortunate H that thousands of gallons of this syrup H aniuuill, goes into the creek. Somo H munna should be adopted of turning it H intomonev. H |