Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-25

sary TO provide sufficient capital to erect
| suitable works, and to understand how
| TO manufacture sugar in the most eco
! nomical way, TO make the thing gen.
| eral success. OF course it must be pre-
sumed that our farmers will act II hearty
cooperation with our factories, and that
they will fully realize the great impor-
lance and benefit it is to them to have q
beet-sugar factory located in their i'm
| mediate vicinity; and that they take
| hold OF beet raising in friendly spirit o [
rivalry and see who can raise the best
| beets for sugar. With sufficient capital
| to erect suitable sugar works, and with
farmers interested in furnishing full
supply OF good beets, there can be no
| such thing as q failure of the beet-suger
| industry IN California;
| In addition to the foregoing we have
bulletin on the same subject prepared
| by the Salinas City Board of Trade
which says: "Machinery for a great
| California beet-sugar factory has just
| arrived from Germany-too late for this
seasons operations, of course. Almost
| every county in the state is clamoring
| for beet-sugar factory. The whole
country seems to be aroused on the sub
| ject of sugar-beet culture. Orders for
! seed haYe been received from as far east
| as Ohio. So strong has been the run for
sugar beet seed that there is now no
more seed in California to let out. 1t
is estimated that fully $500 acres will be
| planted to sugar beets in the vicinity of
Westonville for the coming season. Last
! (this) season there were only 1000 acres
| planted. An immense acreage will be
planted TO beets in other localities. This
year the factories, owing to limited sup
ply, will have only about run of forty
days, but the outlook ut present would
seem TO promise them a run of three
| months for next year.
So, you see, the California failures,
SO much pointed to by persons disposed
have not at all discouraged the Cali
fornans.
All the regions of the So called sugar
beet belt are rousing themselves. Utah
Is into it, and the Daily Tribune of Salt
Lake City 'hopes that Mr.. Stayner will
succeed in establishing his farm and his
beet-sugar factory, and make CON-
plete success of the business. 1t would
be great thing for Utah if ali the sugar
used IN this territory could be manufac-
tured here. 1t would save sending away
a great many tens of thousands of dol
lars annually The Statesman of Boise
City, Idaho, SAYS: 'The interest felt
in the cultivation of the sugar beet in
this section suffers no abatement as the
season advances. All who have had any
experience in beet culture know that the
soil and climate of the Boise and other
valleys OF Southern Idaho are well
adapted TO this industry. There
is no doubt about the very large. yield
per acre in beet roots, and especially
-.
est size. What remsins to be tested is
the percentage of saccharine matter in
the roots. This seasons experiments
will fully determine this, and then ar
rangements will be made looking TO the
erection of factory N Boise for the
manufacture of sugar. The Telegram of
kansas, says: "The Topeka sugar mills
are to be rebuilt at once, and the COM
pany is arranging to plant q large acre
age TO sugar beets with varieties i'm
ported direct from Germany. If the ex-
periments with them are successful, 200
acres more will be planted the year
after. The idea is to have the beet crop
to work on after the sorghum harvest is |
over
From other documents in our collec-
ton it would seem that our Kansas |
friends will make mistake in their i'm |
ported seed Those who have expert |
mented with sugar beets in this country |
seem to be pretty well agreed in the |
opinion that imported seed does not give |
the best results, but that the best results |
come from seed raised through two or |
three generations in this country, say |
third year seed. 1t takes about three |
years 70 bring about proper naturaliza-
ton to our peculiar conditions. The
Grand Island people are fully down to
this conviction, ard Rev. &c ,rge w. |
Chalfant tells us, through the ebraska
Leader, that ''the best variety of sugar
beet found among those now being
worked up at the Grand Island, Neb.
sugar factory is the sea beet. - The
original seed appears to have been OBJ
tanned from Holland, and Mr. Chalfant
says the variety seems TO Improve with
every additional year OF Its culture here.
II is scarcely necessary for us to state IN
this connection that the sugar beets be-
long to varieties olherlng widely from
the ordinary peets OF our garden culture.
They are usually OF Whltish or yellow
ISM color, ana nnuer treatment Win that
end IN view may De grown to enormous
size. we once raised sugar peet that