Arizona republican., 1909-10-08

where there is such an equal division
 of labor. If a man will work hard and
 earnestly he will find as rich a soil
 as anywhere that is working just as
 hard to help him. It takes cultivation
 and lots of it to make ground work. Sugar beets are just now becoming | a wonderful crop in western Kansas. Until q few years ago they were un-
 known here. Now one can drive all day in almost any direction from Garden City and never be out of sight
 of sugar beet fields A reporter for | the Star drove sixty-five miles in a
 motor car in one afternoon last week
 west and north of Garden City and
 saw sugar beets all the time. and some of the time there were no grow
 ing crops besides.
 The beet farmers never had such
 a fine prospect for big returns as
 this year. He has been saved a lot of labor because there has been almost enough rain to mature the beets Or dinarily there is not sufficient rain in western Kansas to do this, but in
 July there were more than six inches
 of rainfall. It has hardly been neces-
 sary to turn the water from the
 ditches into many of the fields.
 field of sugar beets and a baby require about an equal amount of care. A sugar beet farmer is man who dotes on intensive raising. Beets and babies are naturally healthy and if given any sort of a chance will grow like weeds. The more care one gives the babies and beets the larger. fatter and healthier both become. Big fat juicy beets bring money into the pockets of the beet grower and family of healthy children helps a lot in producing that crop of big. fat beets.
 Around Garden City there are more than 10,00p acres of sugar beets. The prospects svere never so good for ex- ceptionally large crops. The beets are looking the best of any year since beet growing was established. The stand is better and the --beets are larger and firmer than in any other year.
 An average crop of beets is from ten to twelve tons an acre. This year it is confidently expected tha, tht PcOitsN AitiN Niir lNfVVO dNAtS will be twelve tons and yields from fifteen to twenty tons will not be the exceptions. Everywhere one goes one hears of the excellent condition of the beets.
 The United States Sugar and Land company, which owns the big sugar mills and buys all the beets, expects !, to receive more than 10000 tons of | beets this year.
 The sugar company has leased 1900 l acres of beet lands to Japanese and I 600 acres to Mexicans. The Japs are | proving themselves to be exceptionally | good beet farmers. Their farms this | year appear about the best of any | in the whole district
 The sugar company owns 333, ,000 i acres of land in the district About i 20,000 acres are under cultivation at | present. As fast as the irrigation ! ditches can be extended the other | lands will be put under cultivation. | The company does not sell any of it's | land, but leases all to the beet grow | CTS. The company receives as rentals l one-half of the hay, one-half of the i grain and from one sixth to one eighth of the beet crop
 It furnishes a four-room house for ] the lesseee, a two-room house for 1 a small barn, well and | The company also advances cash for the seed, horses, machinery and for labor employed during the and harvest season. It also water for its lands and to others. The water costs from S2 to g an acre a year, about two acre feet, enough to cover the land two feet | deep. Generally this is enough to grow and mature a good crop of heets. This year many of the grow CTS will get a large crop by using only about one acre foot of water as there have been sufficient rains. All but two of the irrigation ditches are dry at this time. as there is no de- mand for the water
 Work to Raise Them.
 The beets are planted in the late spring and early summer. After they get a good start the farmer and his boys and girls, wife and relatives and hired help go into the fields and work on their hands and knees They pull all of the weeds and thin out the beet | plants. They also hoe the beets Shortly after this work is completed it is time for second hoeing After that a cultivator and team does all the work It requires special make of blow for harvesting the beets. This