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Show H MONEY IN BEETS H Farmers iu Point Lookout are H proving that tiiere is money in I MB growing sugar beets Two men I 9 there luive rented 77 acres of jH good beet laud. It will cost B k them all told about $1,500 to H I harvest their crop including HB f rental on the laud. Thc C-.H- njR a mate ao tons to the acre not an jtfHir unusual yield which at J 50 I a tou means $6,930 Deduct j,jooaudou have ?t.43 fot one season's work on a capital of $2,500. Talk about a gold mincl lloxelder New s There is food for the thought- ful farmer. You, who have mi 1 from o to So acres of laud ami Hf have sous growing up, ougut to 1 do at least half as veil as the above, besides you will not have H to pay rent ou the land but Hj have it, aud what are ou grt. w - ing upon it now'' Perhaps alfalfa al-falfa at SO per ton aud three tons to the acre Why, you do not realize but little more than half off that 80 acres than the parties above pay for the rent of the laud aud labor. Think of it? Yon are actually losing between fi.ooo and f t.ooo a vear. I low much better off would you be how much more independent von would be vou would be able to give )our children a better education and instead of your Iks having to roam about the country in search of euiplov incut fin most cases very undesirable at best) instead of at home making a good living for himself nnd'vou how much better farm implements imple-ments aud horses, 111 fact, how much happier would farm life be if vou possessed these things? And they are within your reach. |