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ent great cost of beet sugar factories, and how to reduce the 
handlabor in the fields, or do away with it entirely. 
That a sure supply of sugar beets may be obtained 
every year for factory uses, where raised by careful, thorough 
farmers, having an ample supply of water for irrigation. 
That many localities in Colorado and adjoining states 
have every qualification necessary to establish a paying 
beet sugar factory, excepting the laborers to raise the beets. 
That a single beet sugar factory will produce enough beet 
pulp in a single season’s run of lOO days, to fatten 35,000 head 
of sheep — the pulp filling the place of hundreds of cars of 
corn, now shipped to this State every fall and winter. That 
this pulp would be produced just when needed for feeding, 
and should be a stimulus to that industry and a profit to a 
Colorado factory. 
That to become a leading national industry, it must be 
so simplified as to be beyond political hazard and the need 
of a protective tariff. 
That a closer relation must obtain between the producer 
of sugar in the field and those who extract it, at the factory, 
so that the profit may be believed to be more equitably 
shared. The present enormous expense of factory con- 
struction invites this, since the beet grower risks but a 
few dollars in farm machinery, and can stop growing 
beets any time, while the greatest risk to the factory, under 
proper management, is a shortage in its supply of beets. 
That when the conservative Colorado farmer under- 
takes to grow sugar beets commercially, he will as surely 
succeed and top the mark and market in that industry, as 
he has in the growing of wheat, potatoes, fruit, and melons,, 
and in the feeding of sheep on alfalfa hay. 
