PRACTICAL RESULTS OF THE PRODUCTION OF SUGAR 



BEETS IN THE ARKANSAS VALLEY OF EASTERN 



COLORADO AND WESTERN KANSAS. 



BY JNO E. FROST. 



"The proof of the pudding is in the eating" is a homely old adage 

 which is an eminently safe and practical rule to apply to all lines of 

 business. There are few branches of farming, or of business, where 

 such accurate and complete information from actual experience can 

 be obtained as in the production of sugar beets and relative to the re- 

 ceipts from the sale of them to the beet sugar factories, because of 

 the systematic methods and accurate accounts employed between the 

 beet sugar factories and their patrons, hence the sugar l<eet pudding- 

 is easily sampled. 



WORK IN THE BEET FIELDS. 



The second season of raising sugar beets and o 1 ' the manufactur- 

 ing of beet sugar, in the Arkansas Valley in Eastern Colorado, has- 

 just closed, while the season of 1901 was the first season of sugar beet 

 culture in Kansas, under the act passed by the Kansas Legislature 

 one year ago, providing for the payment of a bounty of one dollar per 

 ton upon sugar beets raised in this State containing 12 per cent., or 

 more, of saccharine matter. It is interesting to study the figures ob- 

 tained and while it is a matter of regret lhat a complete statement 

 can not be presented in this article, giving the experience of all of 

 the sugar beet growers in the regions named; the tables herein pre- 

 sented will give the reader a very fair understanding of what has 

 been done and of the results to the farmers in those regions. 



The following tables, showing the results obtained in 1900 and 



