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Show ft Eastern Sentiment. The people of tho east are awaking to the great posribilitlef of the sugar beet and aro now talking up that industry. in-dustry. Tho Drovers Journal of Chicago recently eaid : "The development Of beet sugarmaking on a very large scale is one of the things in store for tho near future, Our American capitalists are beginningtowakouptothoopportunities' they have allowed to pass by. It is absurd that this country Bhould be compelled com-pelled to buy vast amounts of augnr from Germany, Franco on any other country. " The sugar beet indnstry ib just in its infancy in this country. Beets wilj grow successfully where it is too dry to raise crops that require frequent rains, hence in Nebraska, Kansas, Now Mexico and other parte of tho West that are semi, arid in character beets have been grown profitably. It is said that land in Franco ond Germany, where beets are grown' ia worth $500 per acre, yet farmers make a fair living out of u amall patch that would bo termed a garden in this (.ouutry. Farming in experimental in a way, and an efl'ort should always bo made to grow that which ia best adapted to tho soil and climate. |