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sugar percentage and purity, the grower sometimes thinks 
the factory is unjust, and rates the beets too low. A check 
chemist is permitted the growers at such factories, but he 
is seldom employed, especially if the contract states that 
the factory test shall be final. 
Some of the factories furnish quite an amount of the 
seeders, cultivators, and pullers, charging a rental. The 
Lehi factory seeds most of the land for the growers, charg- 
ing 40 cents per acre, besides the seed. 
BEET MACHINERY. 
The best machinery we saw was at Norfolk, Nebraska; 
there are three seeders used there. The Jewell four row 
beet planter is made by Jewell Brothers, Platte Centre, Neb. 
The Superior Drill Co., of Springfield, Ohio, a 
a four row beet drill; and the Moline Plow Co., of Moline^ 
111., sells a two row beet seeder and a two row beet culti- 
vator. The Deere & Mansur Co., Moline, 111., sells two 
varieties of two row beet cultivators. They also sell an 
adjustible beet puller, a cut of which is shown herein. This 
is an adaptation by Theo. Hapke, of Grand L'^land, Neb., from 
the more cumbersome beet pullers used in Germany. A 
puller is made by the local blacksmith at Norfolk, Neb., 
