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profit IN GROWING SUGAR BEETS. 
In these average conditions we include the failures 
The prospective beet-grower will probably judge that he can 
do better than the average. Large yields are regularly ob- 
tained by those farmers who do thorough, clean work.. 
Twenty to thirty tons per acre are not uncommon yields, 
while over forty tons are reported, on good authority, as 
being of proper sugar content and purity. 
In 1893, the Standard Cattle Company, of Ames, Neb- 
raska, R. M. Allen, manager, raised 500 acres of sugar beets, 
and shipped 7,514 tons, over 100 miles to the Grand Island 
sugar factory. The average yield was 17.46 tons per acre. 
Among the yields were 5 acres averaging 30.2 tons, 28 acres 
averaging 22.7 tons and 59 acres averaging 20.5 tons per acre. 
After reserving the unmerchantable beets and topping the 
balance, the factory shipment averaged 15.02 tons per acre,. 
net yield. After paying some $6,000.00 freight charges^ 
there still remained a net profit of $6.25 per acre, besides, 
over 1,200 tons of beets for cattle feed. 
BEET CONTRACT 
WITH 
UTAH SUGAR COMPANY FOR 1898. 
A cres Leki, Utah i 8 g 8 . 
This agreement made and entered into this .day of 
1898, between the Utah Sugar Company ( a cor- 
poration) the first party and 
of Lehi, second party, witnesseth : That the first party 
agrees to purchase from second party any and all beets he 
may produce ( from seed furnished by the first party at the 
rate of 15 cents per pound) on the acres of land 
hereby agreed upon, that do not weigh over 3^^ pounds each 
and contain not less than 12 per cent sugar in the beet and 
that have a purity co-efficient of not less than 80 per cent, 
paying him therefor at the rate of Four Dollars and twenty- 
five cents per ton, delivered and piled in a proper manner 
under first parties’ direction and unloaded at the Utah Sugar 
Company’s factory at Lehi at cost of second party in first 
class condition, with the tops closely and squarely cut off at 
the base of the last or bottom leaf. The beets so delivered 
shall reach all the requirements of this agreement, and not 
contain any diseased, frozen, damaged, or improperly topped 
beets, nor any beet that weighs over 3^ pounds, otherwise 
the entire load so being delivered may be rejected. The 
