Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-10-14

to ~ ions ailer DIS uTbb gbaIs W. HiS
paying the largest price ever paid for !
beeto, so far as / know. In California |
they pay "a, and ip Nebraska $3.50. |
The seed is furnished by the com
pany at cost and imported by
us from Europe. Tie farmer gets Il
for IS cents pound and paysus when
the beets are delivered. He requires
from 10 to Is pounds Ier acre. The
beet crop can be handled, including
every expense, from lime Of planting
TO the time when the beets are laid
down at the factory, for $40 an scre'
You ssk me how much labor Is re-
quifed. answer that after the first
thinning one mau can take care Of 10
/ t. Is ser--. For the first thinning a
man must devo.e four or five days to
sn acre. Nearly all toe farmers Tell
me that they are so well satisfied with
thi. year results that they viii set
aside four or Fl We times a. much land
for bee:s next year.
BETS AND IRRIGATI n.
"Now, you ask me how about irriga-
ton in the cultivation of the beet crop.
You know, probably, that up TO this
time sugar beets have never been raised
by Irrigation, eli her in this country or
in Europe. So you see, IL wss a some
what daring experiment to undertake
the cultivation Of this crop in the arid
region, where the main dependence
must be upon artificial means Of water
ing. But am prepared u say now
after a most careful study Of this
chase of the subject, the past few
. mohths, that, with irrigation, th'
n Utah beet will stand first ln th'
worId-first in amount Of saccharin'
4 matter, first in tonnage 10 the acre
There are some things, however, /
4 seems difficult to make the farmer IN
derstand. The chief difficulty is hi
4 desire to raise big beets. Now, tn
. beet that contains the most sugar
' the one that weighs from three>quar
a quarters Of a pound to IL pounds
q Above that IL ceases to increase II
n proportion to it, size. A good bes
this size will 20 IA per cent. in suga
q and so per cent. IN purity. Beet
/. weighing 4 to 10 pounds show nc
II more than 10 per cent. Of sugar an
At As to So : er cent. IN purity.
= These beets are # DO earthly use
sr any factory, aud yet almost every di
i some farmer comes to me triumphan
p ly with a beet nearly as large as a pa
- Ior stove, and be thinks IL contains
or barreIl Of sugar. he has forced Il
al grow th of this beet by giving IL 10
AZ of water, and by every other possio
n. means, and he has raised u beet tn
he we could not afford to undertake
.ir make into sugar.
nd ain Utah, beets can be planted
av early BIS the MIDDLE of Marct and Il
he lst Of April on the benches. Tney c'
Itv also be planted as late as June lst al
n mature iD time for factory use. o
irrigation will produce a fai- crop, b
two are really required for the best
suits. Evea then the farmer c
osl make water go twice as far for beets
nt- for gram. This is a most imports
ehl consideration in a country where
AK water supply is liable to be short. L
lse' years experience has been a great
mo ucator for our farmers. IL has tsul
OF them 10 keep their fields c.ean OF
Is weeds, and it has also taught them
1eo advantage Of deep blowing and th
ough cultivation. II is absolut
ced decessary for them to plow land in
A fall, and when this is done they
all get splendid results, even In viz
'en- land. Beets do not impoverish
oe- land much, and 1t is still an
5 oil question whether it will be necesf
ing in Utah to rotate the crops, as is d
tnAt In Europe. The constituents OF
ter soil go largely into the leaves
the crown Of the beet. which are lef
the ground after the harvest, and su
sent quently plowed In."
niles