Tombstone epitaph., 1892-06-19
SUGAR BEET CULTURE.
An Industry that Should Commend
 I,seIi 10 Cahise Capital.

! btSh tJSOshS ah try of great importance to Arizona. l Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa anG other western states are offering as an in- ducement to Inc cultivation of this plant bounties 10 ali farmers who en- gage in 1t. When the fact is taken into consideration that the United States imports sloO,OOO, ,O00 worth of sugar a year, the immen<ity of the field of promIse can be realized. And wEen Germany, with an cd worn out soil, can, as she ooes, ship into the United States 100000 tons of sugar per annunn, how vast are the possibil- i ties of the rich virgin soil of Arizona.
 Here is an industry that would be we'll adapted to the vast acreage of the Sulphur Spring valley. where thousands of acres of rich land are now lying idle, and where irrigation conducted on large scale with steam pumps and reservoirs could be cheaply accomplished. The product of the sugar beet should be abont fifteen tons to the acre, hlving value of Si to s per ton, which al, the lower esti- mate would be S60 per acre, and if every available foot Of suitable land in | Cochise were devoted to this culture the product would meet with s ready market, providing the business was | gone into 10 that extent that would warrant the erection of a factory, which is an expensive plant. costing from $jO0.000 mp.
 From an address of Mir. Richard Gird, delivered before the Souther.. California Farmers Institute, we clip the following cogent points relative to the ministry:
 "rhe rule iaiI d ,wa by V.imorin, who has bsea for many years a great beet seed "a ser in Europe. is that the percentage ol sugar is inverse to the " fight of the beet. I can grow beet as large as my finger so sweet that it will be just like stick of can Jy. l had whole loads of beets on the Chino ranch last year that went go per cent crystalizable sugar.
 "rhe proo.r weight to work for is F 10 pplnds; beet over three pounds i. too large to cary . profitable per cent ol sugar want to illustrate to you the proportions of sugar beet. A beet should be equalized so that the area of the leaf surface is in p!opor- l ton 10 the root-sutficient to secre c the carbo hydraie from the air and deposit it in the root. This is why we work for large tops and small roots. We pro luce richer b-el than they raise in Europe or the other states of this country, because we have moro sunlight.
 The amount of seed that should be sown to the acre I, about l5 pounds. You cannot transplant the sugar 1eet. The trouble Is that in pulling beet i up the point, which i, very Ii ie anl ca sly broken, breaks of and sprouts, [, wh the beet grows out of shape and is worthless.
 "fhe blowing ana putting in of the beets take two months, and thinning and cu.tivating two months; that is, four months in the year. l am blow Ing now to put in beets where 1 have taken off this year two ani q halt tons of bIrley hay to tine acre. and on this same land I shall raise $6O worth of beets to the acre. We generally call crlaie to leave the stubble on the ground, still last year I turned the laad over again and put in beets. T.ie calculaii ,n is to blow the stubble in as fertilizer.
 "roo mach stress cannot be laid upon the benefit that the sugar beet culture is to the land in improving i; for other crops. have seen land thai has been cultivated Tor l6 years, and the last crop was batter in sugar than the first
 "I feed the pulp to cattle, and il m .kes splendid feed. My plan this year Is to run it into silos and let il ,ay there ab ut six months, and calculate to feed it tn my catt.e during
 the winter m"nths.
 "I expect to have 10000 tons oi sugar becIs this year.
 "Iu blowing the land for bee,s the calculation is 10 blow from 10 10 l. m ches deep. Now. land must not be
 pgpwed too deep; found last year turned up too much cold ground.
 fou can tiil new ground eight inches, next year 10, ani the following year