Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-01-22

Correspondent on sug'r.ueet raIoing'
am afraid many OF your Subscribers
may think, according 20 your correa'
pondonps calculations, that there DO
nothing no profitable ne raising sugar
boots. But lot the benefit Of your c1r'
respondent and subscribers generally
Will ondcavor TO give you q correct
statement Of thlugs, from my own pore
sonal experience.
In the nrst place, the iarmor hp6 60
rign contract with the sugar come
pany. and ibis is tho nature Of the con.
trac':
Tho Sugar company hereby agrees TO
purchase from ............ Of l. hi oI else
whore any ami ali tit beuta Doe may /
produce, from seed utnlauul ~ a. I
that du not ga over OurrH anu uuu'
hall Iluuu.l hni that contain not le.H
than (ultvru plr cont sugar with /
purity illCIrut OF eighty pul cent, I
paying MIN therefor ht the rate %, ,...,.
see. Dor ton. AN boots are 90 uc luuv. ]
cred ht the factory iu u marketable /
condition, with tho tops closely aud ]
fQuAruly cut Oh, and are 90 bee pied 49, /
OF uul0nIud Boz "a proper manner under /
our direction. Al diseased. irOzHu OF /
uamsgei bpotB Will be refused, AuI nli I
brets not properly topped OF with dirt |
ollngiug ~ them Will be- subject ~ du'
count.
The land has also 10 undergo special
preparation before planting tho suoi ur
Il will not gUTminalu. Then the farmer
Lns 10 take mis- cuaucUa na 10 whether
he gets his seed planted iu good time
~ tue sugar company employs crttniu
men 10 DO all the plnnuuRi anu ! eau
assure you that unless you gro Ouu Ui
the iavOted, we'll you aro liable 20 have
10 wait until late Ia tho season before
getting your seed planted
Well, We Will suppose tue farmer gets
hls seed planted at a reasonable time,
which should bu about tue Uud OF
April. Il takes tho seed about tom 90
fourteen days 10 terminate in fair
weather, anu AZ soon BH tho plants nrD
about two inches high they should Ou
thinned right away. They have 10 b8
thinnud 10 ABOUT eight or Ten iuChrH
apart. The thinning takes consider.
able time, and any one having in "a
number OF acres requires considerable
help, ns a mau can only thin Out oight
10 ten rows day forty rods
long, and it takes forty rows 10 the
acre. After the thinning Il the cult.
waiting, which has ~ DO uuno by hand
chiefly, anu some horse power l may
tny here that the farmer needs special
implements 10 cultivate sugar boeH
which are not necessary Ia tue cult
walton OF other roots (plautcrt, cult.
vAtors, hoes, toppura anu beet plows Tor
ligging the beotsl.
1 may cay sugar boetH need more
caro- Huu cultivation than any Othur
root, vegetable or cereal grown. / havo
raised nearly every kind OF vegetable,
root or cereal grown either IN THIS cOuu-
wy or In England, ~ can speak fr0m
experience. 10 n also necessary TO
be most particular about irri-
eating, or the brot will not mature.
The early beoia rlpun late 10 September.
When the heels arc SUM- cieutly riro
for the factory then comes thu testing
and digging, pulling anu topping, ami
the becth have 10 be- handled fivo Or six
times before being finally delivered at
the faotory-plowuu, pulled, topped,
loaded, unlOadud.
The factory people are very strict
and unless the bUuis 20 "A certain por.
ceuthge according to the contract, oven
60 the smallest fraction, the farmer BE-
liable 90 have nll hiH brots lrit on hi.
hands, AMI no market whatever Coz
them; aud all hIH TINS, lAUDI ma-
ohinery, etc., b. l0ss, You viii nee,
Mr. Editor, tine farmer runs n greater
risk Ia growing sugar bgrts thAu any
other farm produce, aud there Do alWuyi
reduction for dirt OF from two &.
seven per cent.
Now, last year I raised alK acres Of
bOots Tor the sugar company, bad
many Of the farmers around sald hal
ono OF the pruttiost stands Of bee. ll
llshi Geld, But last year was u dfy
epriug aud wet fall, anu / WAS out y
pocket on my bauin nearly $50 whom
labor, planting and seed wgru paid Cor
not inoluUing my own time audp.0w
ing, etc, / got u per ton fur uarIs ut
livoroi, but owing 10 She season mi
boOls dill not mature. Yet 200 mY
other vegetables, roots, etc, ulA, LIul
OF the farmers besides myself wuru AI b
loss from the Same cause,
Now, y .urClillapJulontb says 10 llHE
reasonable that DO gu acre Uf Ian
coulI hu made 90 produce I'D IIuH o
boota. Yes, 10 certainly lul.H .U.s0uauI
enough, but where will yUu iui IAN.
% produce tWOnty tuuauf uurls FOB tu
acre, that 30 f1r the 'aDtlIy es ".u WI.
see by the C0utrHC. tuu factory vII
not receive buulH weighing Over tuTu.
and bali pounds uacH3
The Sugar com ualy plants IuH.g.s
OF acres, and on lu0 br.s % luI, GOO
ana their bUets receive tIn worry uu.l .
cultivation and they only raise from
eight % twelve tome o. .le ..ru an
sometimes leHj aud llla.D GIrr.H
very good cTIu indeed tD 900 hIo.u Com
20 the acre. 50 you will now ay., ga
Editor, that rect raising, sD far aa SOC
farmer % concerned, iB not no O.
profitable an industry after Hli Boa u ,u
or course / know we'll uuUu Do t.s. a
present prices 'or sugar the Uf4n clm
pany cannot run their factory sJgCgF.
fully or 10 CIV. n uIetr tuH Quot of uII
duo ION. Sull they can Har.Iy cEIu,
the farmer Go grow ugu'BiJ 80 ger Co.
under tho same contracts uH hi hertz
the gOmpluY have hitherto ubru pan
tirular care 10 run no riaE, ana GA
farmer has had 10 siaui gli lUg Doe
such should NOT boz the cast, md j nI
u0tsutpriseI 20 the iarmru not weI
ing TO grow b-,t8 ut a reduction uudt
pUH. conditions. P. FIgUIE,