Amador ledger., 1906-03-30
4 GIANT SUGAR BEET.
O'Shannasy Rasies a Marvel
through Accident.


"Thot shtory av Cinderella goin' tn
tha ball in punkin," said o'Shan-
naSy, "aint wan circumstance t. phWat
happen'd out me way in Colorado wild
shugar bates. Now ye moind, aaugar
bates sometimes grows big, an tn
bigger ye grows thin tn more money
ye are shure t. get from tn facthry.
But, me farm down by tn Gunneson
had all tn ither farms in tn Sthate
hate t dith s. far as size av shugar
bates was consarned. Why, don't We
knaw thot tn wather av thot river
is richer'n sthrong likid manyure, an
whin l uses ut for arygatin' me farm,
somehow ither 1 do be afther strap
PIN down me plants, they grows SO
quick
But twas lasht year thot somethin'
remarkable happen'd on me farm way
off in wan corner. Why, don't We
knaw somehow ither a shugar bate
sade got mixed wild tn soil an crowd
so quick wild tn rich arygatin' Gun
nison wather thot 1 didn't get tn
chance t. sthrap it down. Yis, sir,
an whin it got so big 1 says t. meself,
says I, I'll let er go clane throo t.
Chinay; I'm goin' t see jist how
big tn bloomin' bate kin grow. An
would ye behave it, whin tn tonne
came t. gather in tn crap, tho /
hated t do it, it took nearly me lasht
cint buyin' foive hundred pounds av
dinimite t. blow thot bloomin' thing
outer til groun'. An thin 'twas-a
sight t. see. Twas sphlit into big
PAGES, an naybur Smith was so good
as t. bring over his saw mill an we
rigged up his gaserline injin an by
next mornin' had cut up that bate
into thirty-foot slabs. Now. 1 only
owned five tames and naybur Smith
had three, so we had t. go t. me ither
naburs until we had thirtK-three double
team wagons filled up t. tops wild
good shugar bate planks. l can tell
ye we was tn gran sight whin we
drew up t. tn factry at Rocky Ford.
"Well, whin tn factry people wint
ahead an made tn shugar from thot
bate they found it phwat ye call a
"Shugar Countent" as high as forty.
foive per clint. Ye knaw ordinary bates
are good whin thay give twenty per-
cint shugar and the Agricultural De-
partment calls the coeffycient of pur-
ity in thot shugar was somethin' gran.
Faith, didn't tn facthry people COM
plain afterwards thot their customers
found fault wild tn shugar made from
tn bate (they made two car loads from
it 1 belave) because twas SO swate-
twas so swate thot half a tayspoon
would swaten a quart av coffee
"Yis, sir, an tn factry people didn't
want tn poolp, afther thay had taken
tn shugar out av it, rottinin' in tn
buildin' an bein' as thay didn't have
tn room t sthore it outside, thay
paid me foive dollars tn load t haul it
away, which same 1 did. Now, phwat
did do but take tn stuff back t.
me farm an put it N me twilve silos.
Thin I scoors tn country an buys
up 2013 head av cattle, wild tn, money
l gets from tn facthry people, an fat.
tens thin up on tn poolp. Thin !
ships thin back t. Chicago, afther I'd
fatten'd thin, an 1 gets two toims
as much as I pays for thin.
"Not countin' tn money 1 gets for
tn bate an tn cattle, tell ye !
made money tn next spring furnish
in arygatin' wather t. me nayburs
from tn rizevoor l made out av tn
hold tn bate made in tn groun'.
tell ye arygatin' is a success in Col
orado. This year I be goin' to plant
more bates.
Come aroun' some time an III
tell ye how I onct lived in a wather
melon growed on me farm. 'Tis q
foine sthory."