Arizona republican., 1910-06-03

should grow beets more than one year. They know it should go into
 other crops in a cycle or rotation,
 eventually to produce beets again. They look forward to the cultivation
 of additional land each year. and for | this reason they must aVise in re-
 gards to drainage, rotation, fertiliza- | tion. the selection of the beet seed. | and everything that has to do with | the success of every crop and the l progress of the entire community. | The factory knows that it must inn prove the methods of the agricultural 1 community. It appreciates the fact
 that the longer the factory has been established. the more its difficulties will diminish and the less it's advice will he needed one thing that is impressive is the wonderful influence beet culture is having on the class
 of farmers, tenants and laborers who
 may be properly termed beet grow CTS. It is generally improving the produCtiVenesS of the soil and the
 feature of greatest importance is the
 tendency to methodicaI production of
 all crops. A sugar factory not only
 intensifies the farming. b-t makes
 the land support d larger population
 In sugar beet districts the number of
 inhabitants deriving their living from
 farming is increased many times. The factory becomes the nucleus of set tlement The growth of the com munity leads to the industrial pros perity and general advancement Att the time the American Beet Sugar company built the factory at Rocky Ford, the yearly returns of the rail road were S97.000; two years later they were S600,000. The population of the town has increased 60 per cent. or 1000 people.
 The labor problem is one of the most difficult in general agriculture. The development of the factories and mines and the demands of commerce have tended to attract labor away from the farm by offering higher wages and better opportunities The sufar factory. unlike other factories. | does not need the advantages nor the | conditions of large city. but may be ! located where it's material is produced ! Many of these factories are built in ! small country villages, but still the | management must deal with labor i problems. The first difficulty when a | farmer starts to grow beets is that | there will be a shortage of laborers 1 for-this intensive culture and the fac | tory is compelled to make arrange ments to counteract this The effect | is that employment is given to men and boys that otherwise would have been idle in some congested city. The transports these some times in trian loads to the fresh. i'm vigorating air If the country The work is greatly varied. employing men | of different grades from the farmers | son to the unskilled Jap. In old com the farm hand usually be- II comes the skilled factory laborer dur | ing the winter months Thus the in dustry gives employment practically II the year around the crowded season II fitting nicely with other agricultural II work
 Fifteen years ago there were no Il beets grown in the Arkansas Valley Il Cattle raising was the only industry II The farmers sold their hay to the stockmen. but did not raise enough Il other produce to supply the home markets. The value of the land at that time was ten dollars per acre Since the introduction of beet culture it has risen to seventy-five to one hundred and firty dollars per acre II The local railroad revenues have in creased many hundred per cent The popula ton has increased greatly The community has grown, railroads have been built. and free mail delivery has been established. The farming has mostly changed from the old extrava- sant way to the most scientific meth Dds. The pulp. one of the by-products
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