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Show Hon, T. E. Cutler.! Mgr. of the Utah Sugar Co. Visits Alyarado- Utah versus California. Utah Beet Farmers should he Congratulated. j Having just returned from a brief: visit to the Alvarado Sugar Woiks j Califc r a few vords by way of a encouragement 1 3 our freinds who are cultivating beets may not come a miss. Since my return I have been questioned ques-tioned closely by quite a number of farmers as to how our beets in Utah compare at the present date with those that I saw in California, to whicn I can answer unequivocally, that ours are as far advanced as any that I have s.'en, lock equally as healthy, and my opinion is that ours grow faster than theirs. Thcar land is, generally heavier, soil harder to work, and more inclined to clod, and at this time of the year the trade winds, which come off the Pacific Ocean are cold and do not give the beets the chance of the sun that we get in Utah. Thy have as many f not more weeds than we have,, owing to the humidity of the cli mate. Their lands retain the moisture mois-ture well but they do not get any rains at all though the summer and the only chance for them is to work the soil well so as to keep it loose, I am convinced that our own soil will surprise us if we work it thoroughly, and just as long a,s we have moisture at all in it, it would only injure the beet to irrigate. In regard to rotation rota-tion of crops, I saw one pie ce of land that has rained eight consecutive consecu-tive crops of beets and they were seeding it again this year with beet seed. I talked with quite a number of their farmers and one in particular who one season raised 3&0 acres oi beets and who received from his crop i22, 000. He. told tie there1 was money in it arid aUo said: "Tell your farmers not to be afraid to y-ut the necessary labor on their land as it will pay you well.'. I saw gangs of men thinning beets which they did with a small hoe with the handle cut off. In regard to implements they are trying to get hold of anything that s labor saving, but there has been so little call in the United States for any tools of the kind until this year that I think at a rule that what we have seen is crude. American ingenuity in-genuity will invent in the near future sush implemants as will be the most suitable for an industry that will as-; as-; sume within the next two, or,, three 4" - years such immense p,r o or o n s as everything portends. ' . The Alvarado Factory was, commenced com-menced eight years ago. When but. little was known, o;f the Sugar industry in-dustry and the owners have kept on improving until one gets the idea Iliac. Ilic riiuiy is sioiicu luu iuu of machinery to be- ittilized tO' the be ft advantage and I will say to our readers, however, do not be at all nervous about our Factory. I am eatisfied as to the ability of Messrs E. II. Dyer & Co., that they have studied every detail completely and that we shall have a plant that will be thoroughly complete to make as fine a quality of Sugar as ever was brought to Utah, and again do not be nervous about the Sugar in your beets. you will find our climate par-iculary par-iculary favorable for storing that essential ingredient in the beet whilst you are sleeping in your beds: With best wishes for your prosperity and the success of the industry Your fiiend, T. R. Cutler. I.ehi, June Tst,. i8gr |
