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EXPERIMENTS WITH SUGAR BEETS. 
The experience in Kansas has taught them that 
there should be an expert chemist with every diffusion 
plant, in order to insure good results; that there must be 
a beet-sugar expert to take charge of the work, for while 
such a person can easily make sugar from sorghum, a 
sorghum or cane sugar worker will have great difficulty 
in getting good results with beets, on account of the par¬ 
ticular treatment they require. Prof. Cowgill, State Sugar 
Inspector to the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 
recommends the following conditions, which are as valu¬ 
able for us in Colorado as for the farmers in Kansas: 
“ Select carefully the location as to ability to supply 
good cane or beets, and an abundance of good water. 
“ Provide sufficient ready capital. 
“ Contract with a thoroughly competent and responsi¬ 
ble machinery company. 
“ Secure the best business management. 
“ Secure competent, skilled operatives. 
“ Contract with reliable, careful farmers. 
“ Secure carefully selected seed of known purity. 
“ Observe the above requirements, and you have gone 
a long way on the road to success. The absence of any 
one of these conditions will entail loss, and probable 
failure.” 
The single success and several failures prove the 
truth of the above position. 
C. L. INGERSOLL, 
Director. 
