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Show - : 1 IMMENSE planl oi the Amalgamated Sugar company, jus1 ipesl of Ogden, showing the facilities Ik necessar Eor the handling of beets arriving al the planl The gigantic structure is used entirely U in the manufacture of beel sugar and is rln'- largest industrial establishment, the second lafgesl MX nigai Eactory in the intermountain stale. j' 'r : : - tj I i mmm . . - 11 because after having been sold for the sugar contained In the beets, farmers' haul back to their farms the by-prod-j nets which contain all the elements extracted from the soil, and the feod-l Ing value Is but slightly diminished' by the extraction of the sugar. VAIiE OP ROOT CROPS, The culture of sugar beets In Eu-rope Eu-rope taught them tho advantago of; having a hoed root crop In tho rota-j tlon, and now In the districts where there are no sugar factories, they raise sugar heets, mangles and turnips tur-nips for stock feeding purposes, as do also the British farmers, but American Ameri-can farmers cannot be Induced to grow a hoed root crop, except where a sugar factorv is at hand to contract for the product at a high price. As a result of sugar beet culture, the areas In Europe whkh formely BSWpywsogyw 1 iimm 1 ' were regarded ns worthless have been, brought under cultivation, thus greatly great-ly Increasing the cultivated area, the thrnercron system of rotation with I one year of fallow has disappeared, anel fields now yield four crop.s In four years instead of three crops in feur years. Where formerly only the better lands would yield 12 bushels of cereals ce-reals three years in four, or nine- hush-els hush-els yearly per acre, now, with all the poor land added to the cultivated area, the worn-out and worthless soils have been so rejuvenated that tho present combined average yield of wheat, rye, oats and barley In western west-ern Europe. Including the yield of tho less progressive states of the south, is 27. 9 bushels per acre, while in Denmark Den-mark it Is. 36.3. In Germany 39.4, in! Holland 41.9 and in Belgium 51.9 bushels, as compared to an average ield of but 21. C bushels of the same crops from the virgin soils of the lalrH I'nited States. Biit'gSa! In the farming districts of the nM I nlted States where sugar beet cul- Kld'ssa ture had been Introduced, tho yield I of cereal crops grown In rotation with . 'v H Sugar beets Is greatly in excess of th yield In western Europe, or even In B'lDssl Germany, in 1909. from 200.000,000 KS"fl acres devoted to corn, wheat, rye, KmH oats and barley In the United States. iftuH crops were produced to tho value of Blil Had this area pro- UgSSsfl duced as many bushels per acre r,f WiH each crop a were produced In rota Is lion with sugar beets by the sugar ",iBSll bet I farmers reporting to me, at the fl t-amo price per bushel, their yield lkkV would have returned them $6 900,000,- lielH 000, an lncienss of $3,900,000. H |