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Missouri adapted to a commercial success of this business, although Prof. H. J. Waters, 

 director of the state experiment station, writing us Dec. 29, '98, concludes: "The results 

 of all the work done by this station and the United States government indicate that there 

 is little to encourage the hope that Missouri will soon become a sugar producing state." 

 Some 1200 farmers grew boets in an experimental way in '98 and about 1100 in '97, but 



GLIMPSES INTO THE OGDEN 

 (UTAH) SUGAR HOUSE. 



Center illustration shows lower floor, look- 

 ing toward base of diffusion batteries. Upper 

 picture, two of the four large evaporators. 

 Lower view, crystallizers. 



the results of '98 were not as good as the previous season. Out of 150 samples analyzed, 

 only seven showed as much as 12 per cent, of sugar in the beet. The continued wet 

 weather of spring greatly delayed planting and the warm wet weather in fall pre- 

 vented beets from maturing perfectly. 



Kansas is another state that, like Missouri, gives conflicting results. Prof. J. T. 

 Willard, director of the experiment station at Manhattan, writes us Jan. 2, '99, "I know 

 of no serious efforts at present to establish beet sugar factories in this state and should 

 discourage such until a careful test of the proposed locality had been made." He 

 submits tables of a large number of analyses of beets grown in Kansas in '98 and '97, 



