The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1910-01-28


gross amount of from $75 to $50 an acre
in order to make the crop at all pay
ing one and they are insisting that the
land shall pay at least $50 per annum or
they will quit growing beets. Field and
Farm.
A number of business men were in con-
ference yesterday with Messrs. Cline &
Hess on a proposition of an alfalfa mill.
Mr.. Cline is the gentleman who was
here several weeks ago and who pro-
posed to contract hay at 81 per ton for
three years. w. H. Hess is patentee
of an alfalfa mill for which he makes
large claims Of efficiency and economy.
He hailes from Wichita, Kansas. The
proposition has been modified for put
ting in an alfalfa mill. Mr. Cline now
hay at the market price from season to
season. Mr.. Hess wishes to have the
contract for putting in the mill includ-
ing building and machinery. Messrs.
Cline & Hess are putting in a mill at
Merino, work having been commenced
already. Fort Morgan Times.
The city council held special meet
ing Tuesday morning to close con-
tract with the Union Pacific company
for water for use at the round house
and in its engines. The company has
been patron of the town system for a
year or more, but objected to renew
ing the contract under the old scale of
charges. Rather than lose the patron
age, more liberal rate was made.
Hereafter the company will pay eight
cents per thousand gallons. 1t was
that or nothing and the financial inter-
ests of the city are better served by
accepting this rate than to lose the pat
ronage of the company. For the past
several months the Union Pacifid COM
pany have paid in the neighborhood of
three hundred dollars month for wat
er, and this amount goes long ways
towards the maintsnancs Of the
system. Sterling Democrat.
The last of the sugar beets grown
for this years campaign were run
through about Tuesday noon and the
completion of the campaign was signi-
fed by the usual blowing of the factory
whistle. The campaign has been a
v,,o,< o,,ccaoof,,1 NM toLon from, tho
standpoint of the number of tons
sliced in a given time. Ordinarily the
mill runs one hundred and twenty days,
but the present campaign, however,
has been a little shorter, about one
hundred and ten days. The number of
tons sliced, however, has been about
the average for this district. The cam
paign although somewhat shorter than
usual has been longer by several weeks
than that of the other mills of the
Great Western Sugar company. The
Sterling plant was the first to be put in
operation for the seasons work and it
is the last to shut down. Brush and
Fort Morgan factories went out of
business some weeks ago. In Morgan
county, and in fact all over the state
with the exception of the Sterling dis
trict, there was short crop. Here
the crop was about the average. Dur
ing one hundred and ten days run 82-
600 tons were sliced, making an aver
age daily cutting of 740 tons every
twenty-four hours in a mill with rated
capacity of 600 tons. The record
speaks well certainly for men who have
the running of it--Sterling Democrat.
Donald L. Currie, a fourteen-year-
old boy living at Tarkio, Missouri, took
$12O worth of premiums at their recent
state corn show. He won 500 in gold
on the highest scoring corn, any color
or variety. He won $40 on the best
ten ears of white corn and a like
amount on the best ten ears of yellow
corn.
In an opinion written Friday the
attorney general holds that if the state
stock inspection board so desire, it can
use certain of the flu nds in its possess
ion for the prosecution of those stock
men who neglect to feed their stock
and for the purchase of proper food