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great diversity about Lehi, but is generally a heavier soil than the 
uplands of northern Colorado. 
The Eddy, New Mexico, sugar beet factory has been run for 
two seasons only, 1896 and 1897. The valley, though a natural 
fruit garden, lacks the farming population, and pernaps, too, the 
close, careful cultivation and knowledge of irrigation of the older 
farm districts of Colorado. In 1897 they grew 1,900 acres of beets; 
yield, thre6 tons per acre; percentage of sugar, 14.2; purity, 80 per 
cent.; percentage of sugar extracted from the beets, 10.53. 
The average cost of growing and delivering a crop of beets at 
Norfolk, Nebraska, is $26.50 per acre; the average profit, $11.04. 
The yields range from five to fifteen tons per acre. The net returns 
vary from a profit of $29.00 to a loss of $7.55 per acre. At Grand 
Island, Nebraska, the average was $28.73 per acre, and the average 
profit $9.27. The yield varied from five to twelve tons per acre, and 
the net results from a profit of $17.00 to a loss of $12.00 per acre. 
Mr. West puts the average cost of growing and marketing sugar 
beets in Nebraska at $30.00 per acre, and states that the officials of 
both factories put it at the value of seven tons of beets, or $28.00. 
The average cost of growing beets in Utah, not including land 
rentals, is put at $32.50 per acre. The average yield is stated at 
10.1 tons, but the yield for 1897 was 6.75 tons. Improved beet cul¬ 
tivating implements had not, at that time, been introduced into 
Utah, and this, with the higher land rental and cost of irrigation,, 
raises the actual cost to probably $40.00 per acre. 
Relative to the profits of beet culture, Mr. West says: Large 
yields are regularly obtained by those farmers who do thorough, 
clean work, and intimates that therein lies a big secret of success. 
It is also pointed out that the labor question is a most serious 
problem in this industry. It is too important to be entirely passed 
over, even in a summary such as this. 
Concerning the feeding of pulp to cattle and sheep he gives re¬ 
sults obtained in Nebraska and Utah. At Lehi the pulp is placed 
in silos with addition of about one-half per cent, of its weight of salt. 
The cattle always have access to plenty of hay, pulp, and water. 
They never feed a pound of grain in fattening the stock, unless the pulp 
gives out. 
John Reimers, Grand Island, Nebraska, had had three years’ 
experience in feeding pulp to cattle. He fed fifty pounds of pulp,, 
twenty pounds of corn meal, a little bran, and oil cake, and the 
usual amount of hay per day, as a full ration. Hake Bros., also of 
Grand Island, fed lambs a mixture of four pounds of pulp to one or 
one and a half pounds of corn meal, besides hay, as a full ration. 
