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1908

Union raised 278 acres of tobacco and sixteen acres of beets.

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Beloit1908During 1908

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

County1908During 1908

A Rock County town (not named in the passage) reported 397 acres of tobacco and 79 acres of beets.

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Nation & world1908

Union raised 278 acres of tobacco and sixteen acres of beets.

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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

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1908

Union raised 278 acres of tobacco and sixteen acres of beets.

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Nation & world1908

Union raised 278 acres of tobacco and sixteen acres of beets.

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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.