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Show Beet Prices. The price that factorio" aro willing to pay for su(far-beeta probably range from $4 to $5 a Ion, depending to Borne extent on the percentage of saccharine matter in tho beets grown. Can we raise sugar beets at snch a llguo with profit? No doubt we can if wo hnve tho right kind of soil and manage right. Some people can afford to raise sugar beet9 at $3 a ton, whilo others would not mako anything any-thing if they were paid $5 ormoro aton. Our aim must bo to groiv big crops, or at least full crops, and a. full crop should not bo lees than S00 bushels, or a bou twenty tone, an acte. An aero wilK thus brim? not Icps than $89, and perhaps per-haps up to $100, and over. If I hnu the right kind of soil I would not hesitate to plant ten acres in sugar beets if insured in-sured $4 a ton. Iudeed, I would rather grow ten acres of becta than that many acres of potatoes. And $800 io $1,000 seems like a nice littlo income for the average farmer, even if ho lnia to spend a small amount for extra labor in weeding weed-ing and thinning. Farm and Fireside. ' |