Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-09-02
SUGAR BEET.
A Crop That Pays Seventy-hve Dollars an
Acre IN Utah.

Captain J. =. Mills, collect-r Of in
ternAl revenue for this district. which
includes Utah, has recently returned
from an official visit % beet sugar
plart located az Lehi, Utah, snd while
there by keeping his eyes and ears
open and asking questions ne learned
cUBsiderable about beet culture and tire
manufacture Of beet sugar. Ths FOL.
loving excerpts, taken from be Hell
ena Independent, will No doubt be OF
Interest TO the many farmers in this
sectior who have grow sugar beeis thi-
year:
AS 70 the cult tivatiOn OF s gar beets,
Captain Mills obfaiued quite num-
Der OF DOints. There are under culti-
walton in u ah 300 acres In beets, 800
by the co paDy and the balance d.
vidsd among the farmers in patches
OF two acres and upwards. The esii-
mated product Is fifteen tons 70 the
acTe, the average of the sache rine mat
ter being Is per cent. II requires one
man to cultivate every two scres of
beet. ana the company he's contracted
10 pay the farmers FIVE dollars per ton
for the beets delivered At the works
The wages OF these engaged ia beet
culture is 81 IS per day, the men find
ing themselves. The beets range from
one and a half TO three pounds in
weight, those weighing more than five
pounds not being acceptable. A sanoy
loam soil Is considered best adapted TO
beet culture. tnrough a considerable
acreage planted In grAYelly soil aud
bar land looks fully as well as the bot
tom land crops and analyzes as high
In saochAriue. The soil is ploughed
fifteen inches deep. Frost does not
seem TO injure the quality Of the sugar
beet, though in thawing the saccharine
matter is thrown OF. fducing lite sugar
producing value. Thf seed used was
imported from Germany and France.
rs it 8 cleaner and cheaper than that
grown In tue United States. The
Utah works employ q polarlscopist.
who keeps testing the beets all during
the growing season. Every day
samples are brought q the factory, the
entire crop being covered and when
! the test eq0ws they have reached ma
turity and that the saccharine IL not
increasing IN quantity the crop IL
gathered.
There ls no question Of the suocess
OF the Utah works, nor Of Utah's
ability 20 raise the sugar beeis In
spector Norton says the beels are
superior 20 thoee raised In NebrasSa q.
As 70 what Montana can 90 in the
matter OF raising sugar beets, only q
pi tactical test can determine. The
question with Captaiu Millsis whether
fharr .aara hn arns.ru1rn -
frOet. II they can, there Il 20 reason
Why the growing Of snRar beets and
their manufacture into sugar should
not be a. profitable as it is in U.Ah.
Quite q number, Of the nelghborinR
ranchen went into the sugar beet
culture on something more than
an experimental scale this year, 10
the belief that the legislature Of laEt
winter provided = bounty Of two
cents a pound on all up to a certain
amount that could be raised in the
state, but enquiry into the matter
develops the fnct-so we are told by
q legal gentleman-that the law re-
ierred 20. while Il fxed q bounty a.
was supposed made no provision for
the payment Of Il. 30 that its only
purpose ls 10 show the good inten-
tons Of the lawmakers. II the crop
raised In this vicinity shows result
under the polarlscoplc test Of fifteen
per cent. or more saccharine matter.
there is no reason why a sugar factory