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Show representative - of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. to the editor last week after spending a couple of days looking over tbe attempts to raise beets here, The farmers last spring promised to put In CO acres, and Mr. Austin says they actually put In about five, and none of the patches were properly taken care of. "There la no use of farmers putting In any beeta If tbey don't Intend to take care of them. Tbe land must be properly cultivated and watered and then the beets thinned to one every eight or ten Inches. No one had them thinned out enough." Mr. Austin thinks the land down here haa all the mineral elements to makelt the beat sugar beet land in Utah, but It must have humus In the soil before it will raise good crops. Tbe way to do this Is to raise alfalfa two or three years and then turn it under after the first cutting. We doubt if farmers who are Just putting out alfalfa will be willing to do this, although there Is plenty of old alfalfa al-falfa fields that would be better for this treatment, and would undoubtedly raise good crops of beeta. Mr. Austin also says that the farmer wl v ean raise 40 or 60 bushels of wheatVJ acre can make just as much that way. and with less work. The farmer who can raise four or five tons of hay per acre and occasionally a crop of aeed can also do better, so w do not see much prospect for a sugar beet factory fac-tory in here for some time. It would require 8,000 acres in beets to war-want war-want the erection of a factory, while as a farmer cannot afford to haul beets more than four or five miles we would need a railway. A man has to raise 12 tons per acre to psy expenses, ex-penses, and Mr. Austin thinks I. H. Jones' field may run that much, but It is exceptional soil. SUGAR BEETS. "Neither tbe farmer nor the land here Is yet ready for ugar beet culture." cul-ture." said Mr. Parley Austin, the |