The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
BIG KANSAS GAINS IN SUGAR
Garden City Factory Extracted 1900
600 Pounds from $1,000 Tons of
Beets Last Year.

Topeka.-Thirteen million pounds
Of Kansas sunshine, sacked and ready
for the family sugar bowls, is the re-
suit of the sugar making campaign Of
the beet sugar factory of the Garden
City Sugar and Land Company that
has just ended.
The factory received 81, 600 tons OF
beets, grown in F'inney, Kearney, Ham
ilton, PaPwnee, Lyon, Chase and
Greenwood counties, which produced
I3O, 900 bags OF 100 pounds each OF q
fine quality of gTanulated sugar. This
was almost twice as much sugar as
was produced last year. as the ad-
verse growing season Of 1913 cut the
production for the year to 1900
bags
The average yield Of the beet fields
was twelve tons TO the acre, but many
| fields produced from fifteen to twenty
tons per acre. The factory paid $3.50
q ton, which places the market value
/ Of the sugar beet crop at $2T5.0O0- To
this is added 50 to 50 per acre as the
value of the beet tops, left in the field,
| for stock food
The beet pulp, a by-product left
after the sugar is extracted from the
beet root, when dried made 5,e60. 900
pounds OF nutritious stock food. which
is mostly shipped TO Eastern states,
where it is in great demand, espe
/ cialIy by daiTymen to increase milk
production
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For Grain Rate Inquiry.
The Kansas public utilities commits
/ sion has decided TO set aside s., 600
out of its contingent fund to investi-
gate grain rates OF railroads running
out Of Kansas. Increases In these
rates, along with other commodities.
4 have been filed with the interstate
commerce commission, but are now
under suspension until March 81,
pending a hearing
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c. B. Lusk, a farmer near Parsons,
broOding over the death Of a son, re-
Gently hanged himself
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Girls Average s. Week
Miss Lenna Bressette, state factory
inspector. has completed an investiga-
ton Of the five and ten-cent stores IN
Kansas and finds that the average
wage Of the girls employed in those
stores is only 50 a week and only n
receive more than 81 a week Girls
employed In department stores make
from $6 TO S25 a week, she says. Miss
Bressette investigated ,O67 cases. She
found that 7e9 receive less than IS q
week, while fifty-three receive more
than s25 a week
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Would Lop on Two Boards
The aboIishing Of the state barrier
board and hotel commissioners de
partment and the consolidation Of
their work under the state board oi
health is advocated By Governor
Hodges.
Upon the application OF the Kansas
railroads, the utilities commission has
continued the 2-ceat fare case unit
April g. The railroads said It would
take their Accountants that long L
work up figures on their side OF tbs
case.
The month Of December, 1914. bas
the greatest snowfall. and the NOS
eloudiness OF any December on reeors
IN Kansas Only one other Decembei
was colder than the che just closed /.
the twe1ty-eight years the govern
ment has maintained weather reeer
IN the state.
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Tree Kills Rich Farrer-
While moving fallen tree. Ikies
had lodged against another neartv
Sam Apler vas crushed 10 death
vas cae q the Eea1tAfest Esrrssrs s.
this section OF Kansas