Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-02-15
As TO BEET RAISING.
A Utah County Farmer Has His Soy
About Seed, Beeis, Agents, Etc.

NAPOLEON, Fob. o, 1895.
E,itor DCssFoi NcpG
The subject Of sugar beet culture
seems 10 arrest the attention Of the
wouiI-bc friend OF tho farmer Just now
40 well as the farmer himsel. 10 cor'
talnly would be amusiug, were ii not
for the gravity oil tno subject, 10 zee
how MrWuilc, Brown or Smith fushe'
into print aud essays Co ,oll tho farmer
as O. the bust method 90 muiuH bueA
anu als0H what price he can ptouuce
them when no states Ina Tine hul
paragraph that be has no pncilclI
know ledge OF beet culture. ltueoma To
us that thal little gem found ia ihu Zee
ment ot canslstency could pf0Itaoly
ndorn some people,
But Mr. Editor we 10 admire .hc
pen production Of friend ID. B. jones'
~ south Cottonwood. aud had Dee
carried the subject q little farther our
admiration would have been intunt.lifl
and this article would n0t have been
euencsted. lie states In hls summary
that the seed Tor hiH Two hofui cost
s7sD. which means all Jos. 90 Sd cents
prr b contract pfirtl What ( wish
10 say ia this rogurl %. To the c1u-
traot the provisJ "i0r bsDib ftiHud
from seed furnished tbs party az tue
frat part (iarmur) by the party ui
the second pnrih (aur1r clmpanyl'
This, you fur, abu0ivuf oil Obligations
OF tue augar company To uuy bguls al
the farmer should he got bic seed lf0m
any other source; which might ba very
drsirablo. The reason I cay might boo
desirable 10 because ! recall tine 90
that about one year ago 1 read, ID
mistake not, in the lEsEnEr NEWbi
and n not, in some other rcapucinpie
paper, II some eastern capitalists me-
gotiallng with the farmers Of W. irn
Colorado, having In Wow tue putghg
up of a sugar plant and guaranteeing
~ purchase all VI their bcu.t % hdiliu.
lated price and % iifnish beet seed
from Grtmany at 10 cents per pOuudi
TO DO pnid flr after the beota were dug
aud paid for. Now tue Lohi company
can get seed ~ cheap 40 any company
but give them credit Of having TO pay
Ia cent? Der pound and allow them /
cent for intefosl, making 10 oenis, they
then sell them 10 thc lnTmur ut 20 cents
per pound, clearing cents Tor every
pound sold 10 the t,rmet
lt takes pound 4 seed on an aver.
age 10 every ton " boota raised, and na
the company bought 81, 800 ton Of 0urts
ia 1894 the farmer paid them the "a udust
little sum II 81 5000 At least In excess
Of what the Huud cost the company
Rfler allowing them far margin. ~
you zee where the farmer 10 on thc
seed question.
Another thing. Should tho farmer
get a push hoe, which most Oi those
nave who raise buets, he gets 10 from
tho SUGAR company nc the hguto Of
$500, whom In fact there n not us much
cost In manufacturing them a. there IL
ia an ordinary 20 cent shovel another
benefit 10 tho farmer.
Again, n the bools do not attain tho
IL pUr cent Haocharine and 80 per cent
purity the company need not and DO
not take them, and they alone (the
company have the say ~ 70 wuen
that quality IL attained. Now, ~ to
the amount OF sugar that II contained
10 epch ton Of beeta, according ~ the
report OF the Chino Sugar company Of
California, Ne found IN the AMERICAN
kgroulturist, 10 every per cent OF sac.
chaTine with tue necessary per cent OF
purity, one pound OF GRADUATED sugar
was produced. Hence Tor oyory ton OF
beets purchased by tho Lehi Sugar
company under the contracts there was
go hounds Of sugar manufactured, OF
ut IS per SACK (market price) sll for
every ton OF heels purchased by them.
Now, another thing tho contracts
aay that beets that weigh over -
pounds will not DO received. There
again the farmer 10 discrimluated
hgainsl. ~ no can hardly govern the
growth Of his beels aud there art
many tons thrown out on that account
Why not take them at reduced price
n not ne good quality as tho smaller
onet2 And Oh! how some OF Ga,
agents do like 20 show their authority
going from car 10 car With their hand
noalos hanging 20 n buliUnhole oil
their coats, win their thumbs I'm IA,
hrm holes OF their vests and thcil
fingers spread out, as much rs ~ say
"Look at mel"
The Sugar company say! awe mus
cut down the price OF thB beeta, for VI
have not received one cent OF dividend
from our great outlay OF capital
No. should think not, nor will they
until they nniHh buying land ouougt
~ raise what brets they viii need &
work up, which viii not DO long At th'
rate they have bought land,
Ne suggested by Mr.. Jones, 'lt lookl
one Bldrd;" and the right OF the party
OF the first part 10 overlooked by In,
party Of the second part. IL seomp tina
there il no real ground Tor cut,lnl
down the price Of our beelg, anu th'
farmers IN each beet raising die
triot should unto aud Tom0nstratr
and not lilo supiuely down and let 1
appear that beet raising 30 q plcult
aud nll that Is needed IL TO tickle tht
farm little, aud the golden plum vii
fall IA our basket; Otherwise 30 80 only
matter Of another two or three years d
most before there will BIO repetition
" this years cut.
Respectfully,
IS. ID. FuLLNEH,