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1908

For all of Rock County, per county assessors' returns, tobacco was grown on 6,118 acres and sugar beets on 1,222 acres.

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Beloit1908During 1908

An addition was platted on the west side of Rockton road in South Beloit.

Beloit1908During 1908

Beloit College attendance in the four college classes increased to 341.

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Rock County1908

For all of Rock County, per county assessors' returns, tobacco was grown on 6,118 acres and sugar beets on 1,222 acres.

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This is a thickly populated town, with well improved farms, upon which are raised good crops of all varieties; tobacco being especially prominent among them. In 1907 "the weed" occupied 295 acres; in 1908 there were 278 acres of tobacco. The new crop, sugar beets, was raised the amount of twenty-seven acres in 1907, and sixteen acres in 1908, in Union. For the whole of Rock county, from returns made by the county assessors, the tobacco crop of 1907 occupied 7,818 acres; and in 1908, tobacco was grown on 6,118 acres. The area given to sugar beets was, in 1907, some 1141 acres; in 1908 that was increased to 1,222 acres.

Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.Vol. 2, PDF p. 207 / book p. 711

1908

Rock CountyA

1908

For all of Rock County, per county assessors' returns, tobacco was grown on 6,118 acres and sugar beets on 1,222 acres.

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Rock County1908

For all of Rock County, per county assessors' returns, tobacco was grown on 6,118 acres and sugar beets on 1,222 acres.

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1AQuotation found on a page of our own sources

This is a thickly populated town, with well improved farms, upon which are raised good crops of all varieties; tobacco being especially prominent among them. In 1907 "the weed" occupied 295 acres; in 1908 there were 278 acres of tobacco. The new crop, sugar beets, was raised the amount of twenty-seven acres in 1907, and sixteen acres in 1908, in Union. For the whole of Rock county, from returns made by the county assessors, the tobacco crop of 1907 occupied 7,818 acres; and in 1908, tobacco was grown on 6,118 acres. The area given to sugar beets was, in 1907, some 1141 acres; in 1908 that was increased to 1,222 acres.