Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-12-09
SUGAR BEET MEN LOOK
To MASON VALLEY
FOR ACREAGE

Last Saturday party of gentle
men. headed by |. H. Kent, the Fallon
merchant, arrived in Yerington Tor
the purpose of talking of the matter
OF raising sugar beets, with the farm
ers OF aMason Valley. Alter having
! individual talks with some of the local
business men. it was arranged that {.
| public meeting be held at Eagles
Hall in the evening. The. meeting
was not very largely attended, but was
very interesting Mr. Kent, while
by no means an orator, is a very flu
ent and convincing talker, and he ex
planned the sugar beet business in a
plain, busines mans way, talking from
the standpoint of dollars. and how
| they can be accumulated Messrs
Brambwell and Burney, OF the sugar
company, also did some fthe talking
Anonq the facts brought out, were
the following:
Sugar beets should yield not lie S
! than twelve tons to the acre on rel-
sonably good ground This is the
minimum figure, with good cultiva-
ton. In the Fallon district as high
as Is tons has been gathered from a
large tract. The selling price of tie
crop, delivered on the cars, is 81 per
ton, the company paying freight tc
the mill. This will give a minimum
yield of $84 per acre.
"a great deal of hand labor is neces-
sary in the cultivation of the crop
The company offers to see that the
necessary labor is found, and will
advance the necessary money to pay
| for the help, taking its pay when The
crop is delivered. The cost of thin.
ming, wedding, hoeing and gathering
is S2l per acre, for the first II tons
Each additional ton ctsts 90 cents
iris labor cost puts the beets on the
wagon, ready to haul to the depot
The company furnishes the seed
the machine for planting, and does
the planting, for S2.75 per acre. The
farmer must furnish the horses, wag.
ons. and all necessary team work
To sum it up, the farmer must furnish
the land, do all the team work. ard
haul the produce to. the cars. The
company practically does the rest
For this, the land owner gets 81 for
every ton of beets delivered at the
cars, less the cost Of production, which
he knows ebfore he plant sa seed
In the beet business there is no
sorting of the product-no culls. A
beet is a beet, small or large, and
goes to help with thetonnsge
In addition to the above offtrs of
tire beet company, part OF the price
OF the b cts is advanced othe grow
err during the months of May, June
and July.
After introducing Mesrs. Bran
well, Burney, and Hansen, and jap
anese named Nishiyama, who is the
| the head of a japanese contracting
firm to furnish labor, Mr. Kent left
for Fallon. and the other gentlemen
have been busy during the week, max
ing d canvass of the farmers, to ar
range for the planting of beets. The
potato crop having paid so well this
year, many of the farmers have dis
PLAYED reluctance to changing their
crops, but small acreage has been
promised, sufficient TO give the new
departure a trial This is what the
beet men want, for the present-to
get the cultivation of the big roots
stai ted in the valley, so that in fu
ture they may have a big. supply for
their mill. They say they do not
hope to make any money next yeai
from the beets shipped from Mason
Valley, but that when they have
shown the agriculturists of this d
trict how profitable it is to raise
| beets, they expect to see a large acre
age, and then they will get then
profits.
1t is said by those familiar Will
the. culture of beets that it is very
beneficial to tired soil. A crop OF
two of beets raised on piece of tir {
land will give it the elements it needs
! the most, and for years afterwards ii
will yield greater grain crops than
ever before This is caused bv the
deeper cultivation necessary for the
beet crop, and by the action OF tho
sun. and the fact that beets absorb
from the atmosphere elements which
the wheat or otner crops have take'
from the soil.
A committee of citizens has been
busy, assisting the beet men to meet
the farmers, and they have become SO
enthusiastic in the mater that small
company is being formed for the pur-
pose of putting in tract as an ex
pertinent. The idea is that it will
show up the possibilities of the valley
and encourage diversity OF crops
which is the thing necessary in devel
oping the country.
Messrs Bramwell, Hansen, and Bur