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Show Factory Notes. Sugar beola as n forage crop are, in many sections largely taking the placo of other root crops, oven in parts of the country whcro.no sugar ii made. Hogs can be wintered on beets alone, nni if the rdota aro boiled, with a small additional ad-ditional latiou of grain, they moduce Bpl8ndid-.1re8tltH in tho fattening pen. Oattlp and young stock, horses and colts thrive on, and relish them. Louisiana Tlanter. According to official lufoiiuatiou tho area under beet cultivation last season in Huropfcn Russia amounted to 1,081,-000 1,081,-000 acres, against WKJ.OOO acres in '07 and 87-1 ,000 acres in '00. Tho new beet sugar enterprise at Peoria, III., I. as finally taken form, incorporated under- the naiuu 61 the Illinois sotfur iclininj; company. Most of thti'cupitul is furnished b,- the wholesale whole-sale giocers of Peoria, i who expect to lmr.dlG the produce, of tlie factory. Tho capacity of the plant, according to press dispatches will be 1550 tons boots .laily, but tho woiks will be j-o hnilt that thin may be doubled. Work will be begun as soon ua a sito can be secured. Through tho courtesy of Field-Super--intendent Austin ve wero shown o"er tho grounds adjoining the factory yesterday. Up until Monday morning there was on tho ground 13,000 tons of beetB, aboat 2,000 Ions of which wore in tho new shed, the rest forming a pile 500 feet lang ajid, nearly 00 feet wide, and ranging in depth from.10 to 7 feet. Of these 11,000 tons about 0,500 tons were encased in.twcvbulkhoada G00feot long and are covored by cases formed from bullruhed fustonud together in wooden crates. About ."00 of, these bullrush crates are used, each being GxlO. Tho boots protected by thuso crates are in Just as good conditio as tho day they were doll vored, whilo thoso not ao protected shoyv the damaging effects of snow and fiost. The 2000 tons of beets now in the now shed aro tho finest lot on tho grounds and will be tho last worked. With tho exception of two car loads expected yesterday all the beets have boon delivered for tho season 13,000 tots aUogothoi 150,000 having already been cut this Benson. Down at the stock yards there are being fed by White and Haywood 1200 as lino cattle as has ever been Been in this section. lroi tliia feeding there is used daily 100 tons of pulp and about 7 tons of hay . Tho same firm are feeding feed-ing in an adjoining field 700 sheep, the pulp alone being uaod. in tho .feeding. The siloa aro now nenrly filled with pulp iand in another two weeks, tho., pulp will bo dnmpod into a hollow jtv a-'tk'ldeputh a-'tk'ldeputh of the silos and will b sold frdm there to the farmers for feed for StOCK. n The; wind Saturday night tore about (10 feet of the cattle shed roofing from its fastening and.carned, it about four or (iva,rods over into an adjoining field. There ane about lib days run yet, although the cutting may bo finished by December 21. The total crop for thiB year anunints to some over -IS.OQQ tonswhiah is abort the fnjiio as twO y6'a"ffe ago. Of this 'itBmH finmo 12,000 tons yere raised in Lrtil. In thia district they lime been short of watri whirh has caused a do-o.nnsed do-o.nnsed tonnage in many instance? but for all that ti.e ci.p h i" avei V d !'. tons per acre. Thw is by far tho best nvarngo for this district and is an excel- i lent showing for the good work dono by ' H tho fanners. They have given much H time and attention to thia crop and are ' H now reaping the toward of their labors. H Tlio recent dishursment of thotiRands of .dolUta among them has been a great' '' H encouragement to them and a stimulus H ,for the future Work. The company will H have no trouble in contracting for all ' thu boets they want-next year. H , The first of tho improvements sHg' " gosted by Sit. Vallex has bet-.n mad. n( H Tills in several largo coolers for the " H syittp. These wre plated in position in. " the cooling room somu time ago and H have already been filled with syrup. H'f M Last week a party of distinguished ' gentlemen from tho east were shown through the factory by Manager Catler. H Thiough a bioken tail a O. S. L. H engine was thrown from the track at tho H factory yards On F.riduy evening. It took several bonis of hard work to get) it back ou again. Up to date tlie factory has worked up H 110,500 tons of beets. This is an uveragu H of 408 tons per day including all stops H since the mill started. This is by far H the best average made here and is tho-'- H best record for a factory of the. same - H capacity in this country. H About ICO tons of mother beets hare been selected and are stored in several ' H long silos in tho Held1 south of the factory. Particular euro will be taken ' H of them and in the spring all that are' i H i;i a litcondition will be planted fur seed H and sjipuld yield the largest crop of ' H seed ever raised in .America . , H |