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Show Big Beet Tonnage. I Hon. Geo. Austin Draws Down Over $7,000 from 89 Acres. The farmers throughout the sugar beet districts are now closing up their records of tonnage and acreage for the season of lfiot-5, and many very excellent excel-lent records are being reported. Some of the best showings as usual como down from Garland, and among the list none thus far equal the record made on the private farm of Hon. George Austin. On 89.(1 acres of land, Mr. Austin dug 1,527.22 tons of beets, an average of 17.4 tons to the acre. As the entire lot of beets was delivered by wagon to the factory, ho realized $f."jpcr ton, or a gross sum of $7,-25.'t.25. $7,-25.'t.25. Six acres of tho land realized 25 tons of beets to the acre, a result due the fact, as Mr. Austin says, that he poughed under his second crop of alfalfa which was giowing on the land In August, l'JOl, and re-ploughed it late in the same fall, the planting having been done early in the spring of the present year. Mr. Austin will naturally exert himself him-self to increase his acreage for the season of 1000, anil his land is even now being put In readiness for next spring's planting. |