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Show H i Tho present outlook for farm crops is B Tory encouraging, and every former B flhould now put in his best licks to raise H tis good a crop as possible. H Tho drum coips ami quite a crowd of H citizens gathered at the O.S.L. depot H to bid the recruits good-byo on Thure- H day morning. Tho boys wei o cheei ful Hj ns they took their friends by tho hand H and said farowell for the present. H K. G. Itaap of tho Crockett, Solano H Co, Cal, sugar factory has been H distributing seed among farmers who H have mado contracts for growing beets B this season. Experts are also at work H instructing farmers in sowing and H -cultivating the sugar boots. H I beliovo that an era of prosperity is H Pawning for the American farmer. Of H course certain conditions must bo com- B plied with and opposing factions ovcr- B come. The farmer is well able to do all B this if ho but thinks so, and ho should B learn never to stand in his own light, B !biu always bo ready to learn. Rev. J. B JJ. Crawlord, Now York. B Over 200 analyse, made at tho Wash- B ington agricultural laboratory, of sugar B beets cultivated in the south, showed B that most of them wnie worthless for B sugar manufacture. Monroe county, B West Virginia, appears to bo the only B locality where beets promise favorably, B and, in this case, nine samples averged B from 14 to 20 per cent sugar. B Tho full report from Anaheim and B Florence districts had not yet been re- B ceived yesterday, but such as had been B received, indicated that the wind of last B 'Week had done great damage. With B ' the exception of a few irrigated fields, B ;iio beets are expected from Anahiom, B At Florence where the crop was thought B to be safe, tho wind last week oadly in- B jurcdit. A rough estimate plr.cOB tho B damagoat frotnO to75 percent Chino B 'Champiou. ) im- |