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Show BEET SUGAR ITEMS. H Interesting News from Various H The sugar company distributed 600 J small bags of sugar at Salt Lake during When told that we did not have a very good beet crop here this year Mannger Goetz remuikcd that if they had had such a one iu the Pecos Valley they would think they had u very good, jH one. They may have it when the fanners H have been iu tho business a few more H years and become better acquainted H the sugar beet H Tho Drovers Journal of Chicago very H aptly remarks: "if anybody knows any H reason why this country should pay millions of money for sugar from sugar H beets that are grown in Germany, and can be raised as woll in this country as H anywhere, let him speak up. Manager Phillips mado several tours, H out among the sugar beet misers last week, and reports the crop in good con- clitiou, In some lacecs the beet tops. stand 12 or 14 inches high, while in. others, of course, the plants are not iur healthy, and iu a few places the seed did not come up, all m-idently owing to tho H soil conditions. Wifecomsu Loader. H Agricultural Superintendent Kisbet ' H states that the beet crop is coming along H nicely. The planting was later than H desired, but tho condition of the crop, ' H as compared with the same period last-' ' H -Xe tt Stj'Hi? r - ?i?iPll lint-? h ucrc"""Jgll4yT"' ---''. B dou DleVW(leJB ia li l e a uy 'an a ly X'dJarofPlFr H running high in saccharine matter, H showing that they two storing sugar rapidly. Much valuable experience hnn been gained ihip year which witl be put H to good advantage next season. Pecos - fl Valley Argus. The Berlin correspondent to the '' Louisiana Planter states that in con so- quencc of the lateness oi the sowings, '' ' the young plants have not acquired Biifliciout strength to bo able to stand H hot and dry weather for any length of H time, and, although the ground waa H soaked some time ago with moisture H tho sudden heat is dangerous, as it H hardens the soil, and thus is impeding H vegetation. The reports to hand this ' H week are for theso reasons less favorablo ' H and if copious rains do not Bet m in n. ' H short time the fato of many a beet field H will become ut least doubtful. A littlo M less satisfactory is, ulso, tho tenor of ' the reports from the other beet growing H countries of Europe; but, whilst in the western part of tho continent good, ' U warm rains aru needed to improve the situation, in Russia dry weather is longed for, heavy raing being said to ' H have done already considerable harm. H The beet season for 1807 began on H Monday, when J. A. Long drove in with H the first load of beets for tho season of ' H 1807. Apart from tho credit of being H the first load of tho season there was H nothing tho matter with the saccharine H qualities of tho beets, for the polarisoopio H test showed them to contain 18.4 per H cent, Mr. Loom is' beets, which wero H the second load tested, went this some- M what better, tho pohriscope showing , them to contain 10.0 per cont., and Mr. M Jossups' beets exceeded both with a test M of 20.1 per cent. Many samples of beets M wro brought in from Buena Park, all oT M them going vory high. Mr. Goodwin's M polarizing s0 per cont. and others nearly M as high. Anaheim Gazette. M |