Show FARMER WAS GREATLY BENEFITED what beet culture did for the harrisville farmer the same results are to be for every section of weber county dwiere the farmer raised sugar beets that the ogden sugar factory has been of great benefit to the farmer of weber county is beginning to be fully realized by the people on the farm as well as those who are in the city the factory turned over a great deal of money to the farmers this year even with a short crop and the farmer though he was practically experimenting received good pay for his experiments there was a profit in all of it the following letter from peter later at harrisville will show what he has learned about the matter in that district and the same deductions may be made as to all other districts and almost it not all the farmers who attempted the new crop this last year harrisville utah dec 1898 editor ogden standard operating as the statistical reporter for weber county la behalf of the united states department of agriculture I 1 have taken much pleasure in getting information relative to crop reports and as the sugar beet question has assumed paramount importance I 1 have spared no pains to get accurate information as to the yield of sugar beets and have had a sample sent to washington D C for chemical analysis with no returns as yet I 1 have operated this tall under the direction of the sugar company in weighing and shipping beets from harrisville ris ville over the oregon short line wo have shipped abs tbs of beets in 26 cars being an average of has to the car and received from nineteen persons there was an average of 2700 ibs to the wagon load and a yield of 14 tons to the acre the highest yield over 20 tons to the acre waa raised by the guthorle brothers from 2 acres on the farm of our noted townsman mr dudley chase mr also brought in the largest load nearly three tons with one small team of not over 1000 abs tbs to each horse sir artley G daxon had the largest tonnage of any of the nineteen beet valsera ral sera the amount being near 02 tons surely the promoters of this enterprise amongst whom may be numbered the ogden standard are entitled to the highest tor it has changed the tide of business depression and established the wave of prosperity in weber and surrounding counties |