Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-03-17

E''% vccles. president Of the
NJ paw paw, company, in his annual
ogden sus. .hareholders, makes some
r''H 70 . ~, assertions. First ne
n1 vas in hopes to show SUI,
~ ~ lacrosse over last year ine"
f'n'al nv ,Se proats Of 1899 do not ex'
',a ST.. ne d 1873. he proceeds in his
81 'no ~. live the sugar beet raisers a
NON y me belt He alleges thar
W. D.,s aid not top their bee's' ana
Dc a them to excess, so that they
.,,Inei comparatively no sugar a.. S ave-
S'. ISIS that when the farmers nave
J r -sen experience and raise las, as s ,,9,l
. nu,n ~ beets as Lehi, they VIII
, s.4' came price as the Lehi factory
y. before the Lehi factory started
p.ne ,..,e raised here and sent py the
S IN, States mail to be tested se,.i LOT
1D'.' and the returns were seven
Hs" ,ert sugar. When beets were
'.- T, ,o,e for the Lehl factory there
''.'' .sysr any complaint about the
~ There was no growl from the
ven sugar factory about the quantity
4 sugar in Weber and Davis counties
A.e,s until the farmers resolved
i-sa tSs ner ton at the factory ana
usl syracuse was not enough Tor
y. a. ishor Then he tells about let
llsu ntracis for four thousand acres
" sssts. that they were planted thrss
2 ~ 100 late, and that one thousand
w. we're a failure and much OF TINS
20 ~. ,srsets 10 state that this thous'
yves and replanting came as a
roon the farmers and not upon the
factory. lie omitted TO mention
Ss farmers paid the Ogden Sugar
. ,a- afty cents an acre for plant
- snd two dollars and twenty-five
y an acre for seed, and for replani-
70, Inc same rates; that the COM
- elanted when they thought It was
~, and how they liked, All the beets
~, we're planted before the wise man
- rom ogden were all right, This
~ man told the planters they were
,r,rlng the drills too deep, and To
s,rre them to two inches deep. The
,-r.sSuence was that where one drill
i,.rrsd the seed two inches deep the
i,,'ree were left within an inch OF
4. ,op Of the ground where II lay until
a, heavy rains In November caused II
a snnut. When winter set In, | hao
,.,5t four acres OF beets In two and
svr leaves when, II planted at The
r,.i time and in the ground they would
l,,. teen In that condition on the first
AN Of Nav. And this alone was the
r,l cause OF the loss OF one thousand
r,s, Of beets 10 the farmers. | hurl
h,k The charge that the beet raisers
~ 10 blame. IL Is hard enough TO suf-
" he loss OF thousand acres OF
rur beets-counting blowing, harrow
4 planting and seed; II amounts 10
sgsands OF dolars-wlthout being
NJ he absurd nonsense about there
n being the percentage OF sugar, ac-
srslng 10 contract. The fact Is well
hsan that the company inspectors
ne and selected bcets to be tested,
VII DO not think any person was or
Ia 10 bring beets 10 the factory TIL
aT we're according 10 contract and nc
n could deliver til they were author
tby them As a matter OF fact there
sm better sugar beet, tomato or fruit
M 10 the United states than that
thhlay south Of the Weber river "a
Kysille, Davis county. This talk
ihGi there being no sugar in beets
hage they were irrigated Is all baby
an am fully aware there are num-
lsr Of people here who ignorantly
safe they never irrigated their beets
he same land will raise the finest kind
What without irrigation, from then
riit90lnt But the facts are. all said
ha1 Is irrigated by the best irrigation
h The world namely subsoil or soak.
&C. Any OF this land. from the time
be water Is turned in the canal in the
srlng IN winter Is always moist
within two inches Of the top Of the
FJnd II the water were kept out OF
he canal for three years every tret
ta1ld DIE, and all crops would burn w
June OF course. II is an established
i,ci that this kind OF land will produce
lventy tons Of beets 20 the acre and
tVtIage four or five pounds TO the beet
SUI ] should be very foolish to think
ney were the best quality Of sugar
ICES. Some o. the men who own this
IND Of land are the ones who do al
ne footing about raising beets without
insatlon. In time the officers Of tbs
Nsar company win learn by experience
nat their best heets Will come from
ans tha, have TO be irrigated on thu
surface the latter part of July and
"tly IN August ! saw last year 81,
a'ies Of as fine beets as any in thl
WHY They were watered once early
u July Tim one Of the wise men tolt
,l' grower u he watered them agar
q would SPOIL them. The foolish maj
1syed the wise man. BY the first o.
august said beets was ripe. by the las
august they We're dead ripe. II
September they were wllted and soft
nhea they were ordered TO be delivered
lis rain had swelled them out to thei
,slufal size when harvested they wen
,'lI tons 70 the acre. Had they beef
irrigated late IN July and again II
a.sasl they would have made nine o
va Ions 70 the acre, and
Nts'er percentage OF sugar. Per
sns who think tina. suga
sn can stay in the ground thre'
nah'hs waiting for their resurrection
,Wnout injury think as the foollsl
IAnk Beeis are like everything els
me universe. as soon as death take
Nsee' decomposition sets in.
Hgaln. ] VIII state OF my own knowl
,,uss The best beets raised In Provo an
IN are Irrigated As a matter OF fact
~ ~ hot wish harshly to criticize Nj
s IS because ! know he mas had n
,. aaaee OF knowing any more obou
vslhg sugar beets that Mr. Fred
ssl of Mt Job pingree, and that /
ny nothing at all. But must ADM
~, ~ qule amusing 10 read about NUT
i. vehtilt 20 the farmers and company
- 'eoEs 70 Inc very much like a Jus
~ handle Is all on one side.
Wv ~ W The sugar company stock ad
40 N value seventy-flve per cen
AZ paid ten per cent dividend.
s1l ol1 The beet raisers make? No
e,u day for man and team. c
49,. ! Include the cost OF plowin.
tlhg, seed, thinning out, weedlnl
,,,is culilyating. blowing up. pilln,
siY,s loading,hauling and unioadInl
ny,sn et me tossing paragraph OF ST
- hctlss annual renort contains a
ny g nllk Of the eocoanut
Ns,ss' MN, 1 quole IRON the Deser,
sTs Of February 9Th:
be.,s H' abstraction OF sugar from n
sreo. "a been very low this seasol
riss ' mug on the average to only
esp,,S ~ W Der cent. This result
ierio.g l Principally. Of course, by the II
hr,N.y o. The beets delivered AZ m
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