Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19
r AMPA, Ida, Dec 15.-MarS
Nj Austin of the Utah-Idaho Sugar
u company makes the following

Cpllpdly lllhcS tiie loIloWluS
statements:
We are very glad to note the splen-
did results achieved III western Idaho
during the year 1908 by a great number
of our growers, notwithstanding the
fact that we had another worry dry
season; this is something we did not
expect, consecutively.
The table of results given below will
show that Notwithstanding these I'M
favorable conditions, the majority of
our growers have made excellent show
ings; there We're many others who We're
just as successful. but for lack of space
we cannot give them all. OF course
we realize there were some whose crops
were rather light owing to tho un-
favorable conditions OF the season, and
there We're some who put off irrigation
of the land before planting or replaiit-
ing, thinking 1t would storm, until It
was too late to get the results they
would have gotten had they irrigated
their lands q. few weeks earlier. No
doubt this will not occur again. as ]
think the farmers in western Idaho
realize that II they are short OF mois-
ture at the time of planting, the only
thing to do Is to irrigate the SOL
thoroughly, and they will see to it that
it is done carly enough in the season
to give the beets a chance to get large
enough before the hot weather comes.
so as to encourage their growth rath-
or than to retard 1t. Tho results show
that early bects that were on moist
lands made a good growth before the
hot weather struck them, and then
they grew more rapidly than the late
planted beets, as tho foliage being very
small, the hot weather seemed to re-
tard them rather than help them
While It was thought by many of our
growers that when the cooler weather
came on in the fall the bects would re-
cover and make their growth at that
time, they were mistaken, as a great
many of those late planted beets were
somewhat stunted. and they did not get
very large; while the tops looked fairly
WELL the beet itself was rather small.
giving light tonnage and disappoint-
lllGulS al SOi1le lll6lhuCGS, however,
we are very glad to note the prepara-
lions for 1909 which arc being made by
tho greater number OF our beet grow
ers, and the increase OF acreage that ia
being taken along the line of the inter-
urban railway along the Boise river in
the Boise valley, as some very fine
results We're obtained there this year
We also have some very heavy tonnage
tributary by wagon haul near the fac
tory at Nampa, showing that those
soils properly prepared, will yield ex-
cecdingly profitable tonnage.
AS the seasons are more mild In
western Idaho during tho winter, the
farmers have a fine opportunity to pre-
pare their soils for the coming season.
which is being done quite extensively:
We certainly have the right to expect
something like normal weather contli-
tons the coming season. which un-
doubtedly will give tho growers, II
they have their soils properly prepared.
good results; this we certainly hope
they will get, as 1t has been thorough
" demonstrated that the beet crop, un-
der anything like favorable conditions.
is far more profitable than that OF
grain or alfalfa, which are the general
crops grown In western Idaho, especial
ly in view of the fact that there is
only Il market for 4 certain percentage
of the hay, large quantities being car
lied over from 1907 to 1908.