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Show Watsonville, Colifornfa, 'n r 7.. 1 Beet growers-of Venture county nro, very doubtful about the senfcon, oing to lack of rain, j"j Thu portion of tho Moid Cojovranchj near tho ocean is expected tobejaem giyen over to sugar beets thijfyear. m .ni 1. Jf ' It s feared that the acreage will be fexoeedingly limited in the Salinas valley south of tho Moro Cojo ranch ., Tho Chino factory announces that it has 11,000 acres contracted for beets. If that section does not got more rain there will be much less than 11,000 acres in beets. Ohino has had considerably less rain than this valley. ! 'It is reported by the Gilroy Gazette that Olaus Spreckels has made an ofl'er of six square miles of Soap Lake tract ftear Gilroy, owned by. Henry Miller. It purchased the land will be given over to'uugar beet cultivation. The dry weather has made a big cut in the San'a Clara county beet acreage. Seven thousand acres had been reserved for'beets, but not over a third of it ia expected to be cropped in beets, unless hat section is soon favored with considerable con-siderable tain. ,The Western Beet Sugar Company is 1 offering farmers of this valley an oppor-i oppor-i tunity to contract for beet acreage this 1 year, and will strike out the objectional clause relative to delivery of beets at cither Watsonville or Spreckels. Tho beets will bo delivered at tho Watsonville Watson-ville factory and contracts will so read. This does away with the feature of the contract objected to by local growers, and it is to be hoped that Fajarc valley's boet aci cage will now be increaspd. Pajorian. |