Utah: facts to prove that the youngest of the states is progressive and prosperous /issued by the Utah Commission for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition held in Portland June 1st to October 15th, 1905 . following fig-ures as to cost and profits of the farmers in beetraising: The average yield per acre of beets inUtah is from 12 to 15 tons and runs as high as 25tons. The factories pay $ a ton, amounting, onan average, to $50 an acre, but to more than twicethat in instances where careful cultivation is prac-ticed. It cost $35 a ton to produce, harvest anddeliver the beets, as follows:
Utah: facts to prove that the youngest of the states is progressive and prosperous /issued by the Utah Commission for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition held in Portland June 1st to October 15th, 1905 . following fig-ures as to cost and profits of the farmers in beetraising: The average yield per acre of beets inUtah is from 12 to 15 tons and runs as high as 25tons. The factories pay $ a ton, amounting, onan average, to $50 an acre, but to more than twicethat in instances where careful cultivation is prac-ticed. It cost $35 a ton to produce, harvest anddeliver the beets, as follows: Plowing $ 2. 50 Preparing seed bed 1. 50 Seed and planting 2. 75 Thinning Three horse cultivations 1. 50 Three irrigations 1. 50 Topping S. 00 Hauling to factory Two hoeings 4. 00 Fertilizing Water 1. 00 Total $35-00 Farmers, on an average, cultivate from 10 to 15acres. As all the above items of expense are laborcosts, and the farmer and his family can do thework, they make all the way from $150 to $1,500 onthis one crop. Beets will grow on heavy clay, loam,or sand. Reclamation projects are in the vicinity ofthe factories and will throw a great acreage open tosale. 40 Life on the TOCKGROWING —There werein Utah in1903, 245,159 headof cattle, 73,508horses and mules,and 45,718 monopoliza-tion of the publicranges by the sheepis creating a revolution in cattle raising. Former-ly the 45,000,000 acres of Utah public domain af-forded a range for the cattle of this State of aquality to keep them summer and winter withoutshelter or care. Gradually the cattle are being drivento the pastures and cultivated areas. A fine gradeof stock is taking the place of the former scrubbyrange cattle. Winter feeding is becoming a regularfeature of the industry and better prices largely range during the summer and arefed and sheltered during the winter months. Anacre of grass land will, on an average, support twohead of grown cattle a year. Young cattle i
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