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Show PLAIN CITV REDUCED Plain City, Nov. 1.'.. The beet harvest har-vest will bo concluded here Wednesday. Wednes-day. The crop this year as regard tonnege Is conslderebly below that of hist year. Only 211 ears have been loaded at Plain City this year, where as .111 were loaded lust year. Me-sJde.H, Me-sJde.H, only small cars averaging about 21 tons each, were loaded this year, while Ihe average lot for last yenr was about :lo tons to the car. Nnone of the larger cars were loaded this year because the farmers mutlule! against heaving beots Into "skyscrai-ers" "skyscrai-ers" unless the heaving could be dene from the elevated platloritH The sboit crop this year Is due to a number of causes. Of these the protracted drouth of last pummel- Is no doubt the principal. The yield per acre this year Is little better th:ui hair that of normal years. The drouth and reduced fertility of the toil oc-rasioncd oc-rasioncd by repeale.i plantings to this crop are responsible for Ihe low. yield. Tills Is the first year thai Pla'n Cit w has reduced her acreige. .Vh it sm-wlll sm-wlll do next year in this regnrd Is problematical, ll the chances are that an increased uumber of acres will be planted, although It Is doubt-I doubt-I fri If the number will J e Increased to that of recent years. Persistent rumors are In circulation here to the effect that the Plain City branch of the Ogden Ilapld Transit svsteni of railways will be electrified tills rail. Thl. woik. it Is said, w II be begun a? soon as the I larrlsvlll.1 cutoff Is finished. In that case. lo.k out for the trolley this side of the Short Line In a few days. |