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portion of New Mexico which is not unlike the Transvaal high veld, 

 although much more broken and rugged. All along the route you see 

 Mexican navvies who live in trucks and work for $1.25 per day. Close 1 

 to the State line we reached the highest point, that is, Palmer Lake — 

 7,224 feet above sea-level — and then descending slightly we passed , into 

 Colorado where the glorious " Spanish Peaks " seemed waiting to bid us 

 welcome to this wonderful land of sunshine, deserts, and snow. 



At Pueblo I was happy in again meeting Mr. Wilhelm K. 

 Winterhalter, Consulting Agriculturist to the American Beet Sugar Com- 

 pany, who was a delegate to the Dry-farming Congress at Cheyenne. I was 

 specially interested to meet Mr. Winterhalter because he had been 

 operating the Fowler double engine steam tackle for several years past 

 in southern Colorado. He spoke in terms of the highest praise in regard 

 to the Fowler system ; only he stated that he had just purchased a still 

 more efficient and economical tackle made by a Breslau firm which works 

 with superheated steam. Mr. Winterhalter kindly promised me 

 a report on this new outfit within the next ye?r. Mr. Winterhalter 

 is an interesting example of a German- America;!. Born in the 

 ■old world, after completing a college career, he migrated to America, 

 and in order to gain a thorough insight into irrigation he worked as a 

 day labourer in the ditches in California at 75 cents (3s.) per day 

 for a period of three years. He then took a posf-graduate course 

 in the University of California in chemistry and allied subjects under 

 his distinguished fellow countryman — Professor Hilgard — who is also a 

 German- American. With such a training it need not be wondered at 

 that his rise was rapid, and to-day he is consulting agriculturist for six 

 large sugar beet factories. Mr. Winterhalter's field of operations is at 

 Bocky Ford in the Arkansas Valley of Colorado. Nine years ago there 

 were only some 4,000 acres under sugar beets, now there are 65,000 in 

 this region alone. Six factories have been established having a daily 

 slicing capacity of 5,000 tons of sugar beets, which is equal to 1,500 tons 

 of refined sugar. 



Mr. Winterhalter does not favour the growing of sugar beets on dry- 

 lands, but he was much interested when I remarked that I believed 

 that the Transvaal had a good future before it as a sugar-beet country. 

 And he agreed that if the three essential factors (1) sunshine, (2) good 

 deep loamy soil, and (3) water were present, there would be every likeli- 

 hood of success in this enterprise in South Africa ; although t is doubtful 

 if beet sugar will ever seriouslv compete with the cane-sugar inclustrv o:' 

 Natal and Zululand. 



In Denver I had the pleasure of again meeting Mr. John T. Burns. 

 Secretary to the Dry-farming Congress, and spent a most interesting and 

 profitable time Avith him. Leaving Denver at 2.15 p.m., I journeyed to 

 Akron which I reached at 5.30 the same day — a distance of ninety miles. 

 This village is on the direct route of the Burlington Eailroad to Chicago 

 where a hundred snow-capped peaks sentinel the surrounding plains. 

 Next day along with Mr. John Cole, Field Assistant of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, who so kindly came out from Denver as 

 my guide, I drove out to the Akron sub-station. This station is situated 

 four miles from the village of Akron, which has a population of 500 

 inhabitants. The Burlington Eailroad runs through the station. The 

 station comprises an area of 67 acres — all of which has been ploughed — 



