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Show Tho Beet Sugar Problem In Colorado. M Prof. W. V. Cooke, of the State Ag"""" H rieultural College, l-'ort Adams, Colo- H radb, iu a recent article in tho Irrigation H KOviow, discuss the above 8itbject ' Tho pjoieasor sitys that considerable interest M iii this industry is now manifesting itself in Colorado, and theieseemn little doubt that Cdorado etui ruise sugar beets M succepsfully, producing her own sugar M nstead of pending uwny a million and att H half of dollats to buy sugar as they do M now. He holds tiiut u factory should M have at least oue-hitlf its beets acccesable by oidinary wugon hauling, the expenee H of rail transit, iu his opinion, being loo cousiderablutodepfiul upon entirely. H We have long thought that Colorado H was tin ideul State for tuo development H of the beet sugar industry , The ex- H peiiehcos of soveial years at Lchi, Utah H fought tocoutiim our Oolorado fiiendsin H "this. Wheie the beets caii be produced H by irrigation, the control of their sucrose .. H cotueut is far.more certain than in tho H laiuy regions, Whereati excess of rainfall H frequently l.a'is to the production of H inferior beets. We had hoped to havo H 'earned ero this oi a sugar beet factory H in Colorado, Mid believe now that tho H uood pedple of that State ate loosing H time iu not devoting themselves more H actively to thij induitry. While on a visit to that Statu some ten years H ago the editorof this. journal endeavored H to impiess it upon his friends there that H the Colorado conditions are ideal for H sugar beet production, and "learned them H that the matter had been under cousicU H oration for some ten years previously, ' H Wutjthkf 110 'Jik'filUttJ. ImtfoL.'nflii AuiZn... , -B nM iimm 'in11 ifl'fT1 ' l!l W has. been successfully devoloped in Lehi H Utah, in the arid legiousaiid enormously H increased in California, where tlte rain. H fall is very limited H Colorado is already noted for her pro- H ductiuii of potatoeu iu the vicinity o- H Gieeley, wheio it was, atono time thougln M that potatoen could 'not bo pioduced; H they are now producing as high as 500 M bushels per acie and of yeiy .quality. M When they once get into sugar beets H tl.ey will doubtless lise; to similiar H success in their prod rat ion. Lousiatm H Planter. s? H |