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sample of seeds grown by the Utah Sugar Company, of Lehi, Utah, 

 is exhibited in the case No. 6. (See PL I, frontispiece.) The produc- 

 tion of sugar-beet seed has also been undertaken by the Spreckels 

 Sugar Company, Spreckels, Cal., the Peninsular Sugar Refining Com- 

 pany, at Caro, Mich., and perhaps elsewhere. 



Plates 5 to 13 of the exhibit illustrate the appearance of typical 

 sugar beets and the methods used in this country for their cultivation, 

 including the preparation of the land, the sowing of the seed, and 

 other field operations, as well as the harvesting and delivering of the 

 beets to the factory. Some sugar beets of great richness are shown 

 in case No. 7. (See PI. I, frontispiece. ) They were taken from a lot of 

 beets containing over 18 per cent of sugar. 



GROWING AND MARKETING SUGAR BEETS. 



Iii case No. 7 (see PI. I, frontispiece) a map is exhibited which 

 shows the areas in the United States probably suited to sugar-beet 

 culture. This map was published with the reports of experiments 

 with sugar beets made by the Division of Chemistry of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture in 1897. Since that time twenty 

 additional factories have been built and operated; eight more are in 

 process of construction for the crop of 1901. All of these factories are 

 located in or adjacent to the areas indicated on the map as probably 

 suited to sugar-beet culture because of their favorable mean summer 

 temperature. Subsequent experiments do not suggest, in general, 

 that any material changes should be made in the areas indicated on 

 this map as probably suited to sugar-beet culture. The Bureau of 

 Chemistry is indebted to the Weather Bureau for valuable cooperation 

 in the preparation of this map. 



Unless the factory provides ample facilities for quickly weighing 

 and unloading a large number of wagonloads of beets, the expense 

 of delivering sugar beets to the factory is materially increased. Some 

 of the methods employed for transferring sugar beets from wagons 

 to cars or from wagons to the storage bins of the factory are shown 

 on pis. 15 and 16 of the exhibit. The net method or some form of 

 the tilting platform are very much used in various parts of the coun- 

 try. The net method is now very generally used on the Pacific coast. 

 The net is placed in the bottom of the wagon and the beets loaded 

 on top of it. When the wagon arrives at the factory or other unload- 

 ing point, a rope is attached to the net, and by means of a horse or 

 other power the beets are quickly transferred to the car or storage 

 bin. 



SUBSTANTIAL CONSTRUCTION OF AMERICAN FACTORIES. 



The confidence of investors in the continued success of the indus- 

 try is shown by the substantial character of the buildings which have 

 been erected for the housing of the machinery used for the manufac- 



