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Show BBh m The following from he Ilucky BVE Mountain Fnrmer will ho of a. A pecial iutorosts to our renders: Bf "Sugar boot farming has given B now inspiration to the American B farmer. Whatever may be its B' future, tho development of this H special farming within tho pas- BK fow yours sliows what the Anion- B cn fanner is capablo of when on- B courgBilby tlio experiment stnt n lions and backed by American capital. In 1HHO there wore four sugar factories in operation in the Tinted Slt. In UMJO llioro were thirty,Hud thciof aio nt lifty-rour. Some 100,000 am r laud weie in bods the prosoiii year, and the estimated luoduot fiom the factories is .116,000 ton, of sugar. Mcue ihnjl half the sugar is prOdilcOiPih -tho arid region, ('olorado is far in 'the lead of any other stale, (here bo-ing bo-ing now lifteen factories in that statu with an estimated yield ol sugar of 110,000 Ions. I'lah ha. live factoiies i 1 1 1 an estimated pioduct of .U),000 tons. Idaho has four factoiies with an estimated esti-mated pioduct of 17,000 tons. "Tho beet crop, of course, is insignificant in-significant when computed with some other farm ciops. The rapid ra-pid growth ol the iudustiy is ic-maikable ic-maikable chiefly in bringing to gclher the farmer, the 'scientist and the capitalist. The oxpeu-ment oxpeu-ment stations showed that sugai beets could be raised in this conn, try as well an in any other, hut H required money which the limners limn-ers themselves were unwilling oi unable to raise. But far-seeing men with capital came forwaid and built the factories on the promise that the fanners would grow the beet", and thtj did H "The whole industry affords a striking illustration of successful co-opetation between capital and labor, and teaches a leeson on the value of organization that the farmer should not forget." |