The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-03-30
Il GIANT SUGAR BEET.
O'Shannasy RaSieS a Marvel
through Accident.

lHTouen aCCiuGnts
"Thot shtory av Cinderella guin. tn
tina ball in 4 punkin," said o'Shan-
nasy, "aint wan circumstance t phwat
happen'd out me way in Colorado wild
sAugar bates. Now we moind, eiugar
bates sometimes grows big. an tn
| bigger ye grows thin tn more money
We are shure t get from TIL facthry.
But, me farm down by TIL Gunneson
had all tn ither farms in tn Sthate
hate L dith s. far as size av shugar
bates was consumed. Why. don't ye
knaw thot tn wather av thot river
IS richer'n sthrong hkid manyure. an
whin / uses ut for arygatin' me farm,
somehow ither | 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
OF il wan corner. Why, don't We
Lnaw somehow ither shugar bate
Islde got mixed wild IN soil an crowd
so quick wild tn rich arygatin' Gun
uison wather thot didn't get tn
rlgrce L sthrap it down. Yis, sir,
an whin it got so big l says t. meself,
71rs !, I'll let er go clane throo {
Chlnay: I'm goin' t see jist how
hIs III bloomin' bate kin grow. An
would We behave it, whin tn tonne
r7ue I gather in tn crap. tho I
hated L DO it. it took nearly me lasht
clint huyin' fGive hundred pounds av
ll1Im.te t blow thot bloomin' thing
outer tt groun'. An thin twas a
.rht L see. Twas sphlit into big
PAGES. an naybur Smith was so good
as L bring over his saw mill an we
RI Ered up his gaserline injin an by
next mornin' had cut up that bate
f,f-
owned 1--WE tames and naybur Smith
had three. so we had Z go Z me ither
naburs until we had thirty-three double
team wagons filled up t tops wild
good shugar bate planks. l can tell
ys We was tn gran sight whin we
drew up Z tn factry at Rocky Ford.
well. whin tn factry people wint
ahead an made tn shugar from thot
late they found it phwat we call o
"Shugar Countent" as high as forty
t1ive per clint. Ye knaw ordinary bates
are good whin thay give twenty per-
clint 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 fthey made two car loads from
It / belaye) because twas so swate-
twas so swate thot half n tayspoon
would swatch quart av coffee.
"Y.s, sir an tn factry people didn't
want tn poolp. afther thay had taken
m sBuEar out av it, rottinin' in tn
hUi'En' an bein' as thay didn't have
m room Z sthore it outside. thay
paid me foive dollars tn load t haul it
away. which same I did. Now, phwat
lIl / do but take tn stuff back T.
me farm an put 1t N me twIIve silcs.
Thin 7 snoors III country an buys
mp g1-2 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
farten'd thin, an gets two toims
as much as l pays for thin.
Not countin' tn money / gets for
tn bate an TIL cattle, l tell ye
made money tn next spring furnish
in aryPatin' wather t me nayburs
from tn rizevoor I made out av tn
hold tn bate made in tn groun'. I
tell We arygatln' is a success in Col
orado. This year / be goin' to plant
more bates.
Come aroun' some time an I'll
tell We how onct lived in wather-
melon growed on me farm. IT'S a
foine sthory."