Show BEET BT BOOSTERS KEEPING ACTIVE ornery county sugar beet enthusiasts conti continue quo to grow more active and well vell attended are being held continual JY in every town in the county to boost I 1 tho lie proposition at latest reports 2000 acrea acres exclusive of the austin acrea acres had bein feigned up for 1017 and thu the various i t committees will not let up until em ery err county bas las done more than her share the druery county progress ii boosting bard hard in every issue and ij 1 st week gave toe the following figures As near as a thu progress can figure t thore there must bo be nearly 2000 aerts of beets now signed for in emery county ty exclusive of tho the austin farms land where acrea acres are guaranteed to belp make up the acres I 1 fusary mary to secure tho sugar factory vind railroad and though this is a i pretty good showing for the work ilo neIN Is 9 far short of what wu wo have got to havo to bold up joinery coun tys end and of the proposition emery county wll will have tp to secure at least acres of what the austin awitin interest have bave promised to mike tho the thing of a sure go mr jensen gave some figures which wo we take pleasure in reproduce ing beaw showing the actual cost of 0 balsina aa an aero acro of beets going IU 13 teas to the acre a but vo we want to impress the taut faut upon our that all but the 3 24 75 hollowed for the fed ped and planting is labor that can be ile by the farmer and his own family in most cases and must bo be as ax such the figures ore are extremely comma conservative tive too and mid we are confident thero there is not an acre of land in tho county that cannot be worked for these figures which are also based on a good wage rate tho figures follow fertilizing the ground 7 00 Plo wine twice CO leveling eveling 14 bonce once ao 40 marking off ott vre preparing paring seed bed wed nod and irrigating before planting 36 thinning twice irrigating three times 75 cultivating five ave times plowing owing Jl harvesting and haul two atiles CT iles 18 00 total for acre W 44 15 at a total cost of 44 per acre this crop of beets at 12 tons to the acro which is a very conservative tonnage and 5 per ton will bring M 60 netting the latiner 16 cash to the acre or 16 per cent interest on land or 32 per cent interest on 50 land and this besides paying him and bis family and team well for every bit of lacor performed we doubt it t there ic a single sincle farmer in A the tile county doinik this well with any crop but seed and field is uncertain us as to yield and market while the market and w market arket price is guaranteed to the grower of beets before the crop Js Is planted we are pleased to note that miss fama johnson has again been honored by being permitted to enter the state contest this timo time as a debater and ve v e hive lean teen informed that chec the C 01 U S which school jhb represented came out second in the contest and that miss emma had bad been classed ae as a star debater cle cleveland veland ite items in emery county progress manager rex miller of the eastom rutih telephone company transacted business siness hu in rains tuesday bishop samuel dugmore price on bu business sines monday |