Nitrate of that, with the exception of cattle breeding and cattle dealing 

 Soda for an( j eyen j n t j lat Branch retrogression has of late been 

 Sugar-Beets , , . -111 ' i 



- observable agriculture has become so little remunerative 



6 that farmers have almost lost heart, and the cultivation of the 

 sugar-beet is the only resource that is left to us. We would, 

 therefore, hope that, by an intelligent adoption of the new 

 sugar-duty law, those parts of the country in which the culti- 

 vation of the sugar-beet, although they are suited for it, has 

 not yet attained due development, will have the possibility 



A Field of Young Beets on the Upper Gila in Graham County, 



After Thinning, April 22, 1901. 

 Bulletin No. 51, Arizona Experiment Station Me Clatchin-Fabbs. 



open to them in future of taking it up to the fullest extent. 

 The prospects of the law passing are, it may be said, not un- 

 favorable; they have, so far as I can learn in Reichstag circles, 

 distinctly improved of late, as regards the grants which are 

 to be made and which will allow of the establishment of new 

 factories to a wide extent. We, in the province of Saxony, 

 in no way take up a narrow-minded position ; we know 

 what advantages the cultivation of the sugar-beet confers on 

 agriculture generally, and we are far from wishing that you 



