Show I BEET FIELDS SHOW FARMERS PROFI Great Tonnage of Sugar Pro Vegetables Vegetables' in Weber County SIXTEEN MILLION POUNDS The Years Year's Output of Refined Sugar in One County Reaches Big Total Total Ogden Nov o 2 25 Sugar Sugar beet r raising Is ono of ot the principal agricultural pursuits pur suits In the vicinity of ot Ogden and the thu city may he be regarded as the center for tor this Industry In tho Intermountain re re- re gion glon The Tho Amalgamated Sugar compan company com corn pan pany Is strictly an Ogden concern althou al al- al thou though h it i operates factories at Logan Logar and La Ln Grande Oregon as well as in ir Ogden Its Is capital stock tock Is wel It I employs people with wih a month month- I ly Jy payroll parol of ot To operate Its factories during the operating season seasor requires tons of ot coal cOl each da day and ten tons of coI coke The of ot operation manufacturing sugar sug sug- ar from beets beeta is an intricate process procesa Many an sub substances are aro used In the process varIous vari van ous stages stage of ot sugar suar making One Ono I is tallow which is used In ats vats where th the sugar Is being being boiled The tallow collects col eel on the thc surface and forms torms a a scum cum which prevents the mass from boiling over The This company compan uses about 30 30 pounds of tallow annual annually Limestone and sulphur are used ex fX- fX for tor purification purposes Tho Thc Amalgamated company uses nearly 13 tons of ono dally daily daly In Its Is factories facto facto- ries rice the supply being obtained from quarries near Lewiston Utah The quantity of ot pulp ur used each ench year ear IB it also considerable amounting to about aboul pounds Pulp Tn in J. J Utilized There Is I practically no waste at a a sugar fac ory the pulp or refuse from the tho beets beet being regarded as a hl highly hl article articie artcle of oC fodder for foT cattle It I Is 1 purchased by the farmers In catte largo large quantities and used for tor fattening stock for market It Is 13 estimated that 1000 farmers I supplied supplied sup sup- plied plod tho the Amalgamated Amalgamate amat l company compan with boots beets last year ear and or their crop they wez-o wez paid pali for This year the amount will wl greatly exceed that fig url ure Last year ear there were harvested In Weber count county alone more than 6 tons of oC beets beats from which was manufactured manu manu- pounds of high high- grade sU sugar ar Tho The farmers farmer received about for tor their crop This year rear ear there were ivore acres of ot land seeded seeded seeded seed seed- ed to beets an and the total tonnage harvested har bar vested rested In Weber county count will 11 be he about tons This quantity of oC beets will make about pounds of ot sugar The rho beet growers glower will wi receive 5 55 a ton or r a total of November ember o 15 was as the hl big pay day dayot of ot f the tho season on an and 11 more th than n was tas paid out to Weber county count farmers within the space of ot a n few tew hours The effect of so lar large c nn an amount of money being sud suddenly put into local circulation tion ton ion was a pronounced The climatic conditions and ami 1 soil soi of ot Weber are arE considered Ideal eal for fot su sugar iuar ar beet heet r raising i It I being helg of ot a Q silly lt character which dd much mitch to Oie ne uniform uniform uni uni- form orm purity of ot tho beet heel The Che b beet farms are comparatively comparative comparative- I ly 3 from rom ten to t twenty acres s he- he tb Ing th n er average re Larger beet heet farms are out iut out of oC th the ordinary ordinary- The Thc beets are rc grown rown ly by y Irrigation and ant as fl bern 1 ort or a n H Tko avra average o yield is about fourteen tons ton Co to the acre |