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Show 1 DRY PERIOD HAS ID I BAD EFFECT ON I ! SUGAR BEETS H 1 The Amalgamated Sugar company H is to open the Ogden and Lewlston (j factories about September 10 and tho BE !' Logan and Burley factories a few ff 1 days later. Beet digging orders have jmt f been sent out and the farmers will 1K begin work in the fields this week. )K 1 Secretary Fred G. Taylor states, ?R however, that there is a question as j to whether sufficient water will be available at tho Ogden and Lowiston factories to Btart the machinery at I tlio time planned. He states that it i f requires about 4-secoud feet to oper- ate the Ogden factory and that the supply at this time Is considerably be- low that Field agents are now en- II dcavoring to get a greater supply. f Tests of sugar beets, so far this ft year, have shown that they arc far lower in sugar content than in previous previ-ous years, due, the chemists say, to I continued dry weather. The average aver-age saccharine percentage In the test so far made has not been higher than 13. The normal percentage Is about ; fifteen. nn |