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Show BEET CROP IS TAXING I win of ti 8 FACTORIES m, m I v'3 The factories of the Amalgamated ;X!. Sugar company are in the midst of a H .1 successful sugar-making campaign I'-'z-H'S and the 8upP1.v of Dets at this time ir'l warrants the conclusion, as 6lated by '.-Sjjl members of the company, that each '?: m mill will bo taxed to its capacity to handle the crop from the farms ex tending from Kaysvllle In Davis county coun-ty to Burley, Idaho. The fall weather ha been Ideal for beet dlggine and the farmers have taken advantage of it. The digging is still in progress and it is said by the farmer! that if good weather continues con-tinues another ten days or two weeks the entire crop In Weber and Davis counties can be gathered and placed at the disposal of the sugar company at the factories. There are now on hand at the Ogden Og-den factory 20,000 tons of beets, and a large tonnage is being delivered each day All the beets taken from the fields in Plain City, Farr West and Warren have been shipped to the factories fac-tories at Iyewiston and Logan and. i ' cause of the heavy crop in the vicinity vi-cinity of the Ogden factory, It is likely that more beets from o'hpr districts will be sent to the northern mills. While the saccharin percent age of the beets is not as great as the company desires, it is said thai the harvest will be satisfactory to the company and to the farmers." |