Show sugar beet notes each besk brines reports of new sugar ventures in california many of them with every prospect of becom tug certainties tain ties at an birly date the latest ie that the the etora of the chino guear factory havo decided upon building another large factory at hueneme in ventura county vivaion ti of acres of beets for five yeara has been guaranteed for tho use of the at a asic rate of 3 25 per ton the beets to analyze not less than 12 per cent saccharine with per on additional for each per cent above 12 A site of acres bae been ib bated and work on the necessary build ings will commence at once the initial capacity of the works will be 1000 tons of beets per day and this will bj doubled soon as possible the works are to ba in operation for the 1898 the southern pacific will build a spur line five miles long from the main line to the factory and the augir company will continue this another five miles to tide water large quantities of beets have been produced for several yeara past in the neighborhood and shipped to chino for working so it ia bottled that good beet land in abundance exists here articles of incorporation of ile crochelt Croc kelt sugar refining company with a cagial ot been filed at sw francisco the interest inte iest iu the sugar beet in the middle states is rapidly on the increase about examples have ben at the cornell experiment station of beets grown in various parts of new york detate the par of sugar in the juice ran from 16 to 18 per cent and in casee even higher only in comparatively ively few instances was the saccharine content below 14 or 15 per cent the beet sugar factory at rone N Y continues its successful operation but the average yield per acre in that of crops grown on a commercial scale for the factory promises to be around 11 or 10 tons compared to the extravagant claims of 20 to 30 tone calculated by bome enthusiasts alio have grown small plots under exceptionally good culture at the ohio experiment station numerous 1 bhola bebis from ak parts of the buckeye state to ba running quite high and in some cases the results are extraordinary in both the coefficient of purity ia excellent we are not surprised to learn that many localities are already making strong efforts to secure the establishment of a beet sugar factory while the season has been exceptionally favorable in localities for this crop yet he most liberal discount for all these conditions warrants the opinion that new york and ohio have already demonstrated their adaptability to this new and promising prom sing industry the sugar campaign la BOiU hern california has closed after turning out ibs with a promise to do better by dt least 25 per cent next year the Wae onville sugar factory is still running and turning out 1000 tone of augar per week athe largest weekly output yet reported from an american factory local papers in many parts ot the country havo taken an active inte reet in promotion experiments with beets during the past notable among them 1 the publican lle of waupaca wie which prints a number of analyses of beets crown in that section some of these are good others poor the average high from these testa it would appear that the sand and clay and aandy soils mixed are better than the heavy clay for raising beets rich in sugar the very labeet ie an immense beet sugar factory proposition in ventura county cal not far from the site chosen by the large capitalists have been interested in tho enterprise ter prise by mr holabird who haa been very successful in enterprises of this kind |