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Show ft'iutM Induainr. C. F. Balnr, the beet lugar expert of tbe department of agricaltnre, hat prepared pre-pared a rot'gretiional document entitled "Progreetot the Beet Soger Indnttry in 1003," wbl'-h will b distributed among tngar beet grower! and mahufartnrare. Regarding tht Indattry at a whole, tbe report among other thlngt tayt: "Tbe tocceii or failure of beet lugar product!; In tbit country reeolvet it-eelf it-eelf Into purely agricultural problem. While we poMtbly pay higher wegri In the latt ryltnll, the effect ol thit will be retetl'tly email ; and betide tbit disadvantage it largely compenaated by tbe toprrtor artlian ability ol the workmau In tke American tngar fee-lory. fee-lory. The problem that mott deeply concern! ui li the lupply and quality ol the beeti, problem which affect both th farmer and the lactory. The factory II. inttreited In tecuring a lufficlent amount of beeti to maloUla ita operatloa lor a hundred day or more. Itaotonly requlret a tufficient tupply, but It riqulrei been ol a luS-clant luS-clant quality. "In man; of the commuultlei lur-roonding lur-roonding tbt older fartorlea tbe average aver-age tonnag hat been Increased lour or fiv toot per acre. At to per ton, th prevalent pric for beeti In th It country, coun-try, thit meant in increaae of 120 to 26 in tbe earning power of an acre of land groelng tngar beeti. Th average av-erage tonnage in Germany It about thirteen toot per in. Th average tonnage 11 thit country ran from eight to nloetoni per aer. I think it it only fair to awuma that wbea oar farmer bin been educated to ate tb earn cart la cultivation, fertllliation, etc., w any expect from our land a tonnage at u: iqnal to that of ear-many." ear-many." . |