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per ton for every cent per pound wholesale over eight cents. A 

 fair yield of sugar beets per acre is twelve tons, which means about 

 $75 to $100 per acre gross. 



There used to be an old fashioned notion among farmers that 

 growing sugar beets exhausted the fertility of the soil. This notion 

 has been disproved by the Federal Agricultural Department and 

 other authorities. 



Today it is a well known fact that in localities where large 

 quantities of sugar beets are grown the farmers are more prosperous 

 than in other localities, and their soil is in better condition for 

 cultivation and yields larger returns of all other crops. 



Sugar beets are a crop which in Marinette County have never 

 been known to be a failure. 



The manager of the local sugar beet factory states that the 

 soils of this locality are especially adapted for the culture of sugar 

 beets, and that the percentage of sugar in the beets raised here is 

 higher than in those raised in any other locality. 



In the grow r th of sugar beets Wisconsin makes the best showing 

 of all the non-irrigated states, and when allowance is made for the 

 cost of irrigation, the best showing of all. 



The last report of the Menominee River Sugar Company shows 

 that the sum of $485,000 nearly a half million was paid out to 

 farmers for beets in one year. A total of twenty-three carloads was 

 received by the factory from the town of Loomis, in Marinette 

 County. This town is settled almost entirely with people who have 

 bought land from the Skidmore Land Co., in recent years. Five 

 years ago not one carload of beets was shipped from this town of 

 Loomis. This is only one indication of the great development of 

 the beet growing industry in Marinette County. It is a cash crop 

 here, second in importance only to the potato growing industry. 

 You can make big money every year growing sugar beets in 

 Marinette County. 



WHEAT. Wisconsin now ranks third in the United States in the 



production of wheat. The soil and climate of Mari- 

 nette County are well adapted to the profitable raising of wheat of 

 a superior quality, and with present high prices the acreage is being 

 increased every year. 



OATS. Oats are one of the great grain crops of Marinette 



County. They are a never failing crop in this locality, 



and instances are common in which Marinette County lands have 

 yielded from 100 to 120 bushels per acre of this grain. The cool 

 nights keep the grain headed out nearly twice as long before ripen- 

 ing as in warmer countries. The result is a much heavier yield, 

 often from two to ten pounds per bushel heavier than oats raised 

 elsewhere. Yields of from 50 to 80 bushels per acre are common. 



