Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-12
IWichita Eagle. Feb. !. ism.


and the result is that the Medicine
Lodge company is going into the sugar
business
''The going into the sugar business
expression was particularly emphasized
to give it force, when the professor con-
tinued: The company has sent to Ger
many for ten thousand pounds of sugar
beet seed and this will plant twelve hun
dred acres in beets, and just that many
acres will be planted IN beets. From
this alone over two and half million
pounds of beet sugar will be made. The
company will plant $500 acres of cane
which will be worked first and then the
beet sugar making follows and Cen last
until the beets commence to grow in the
spring. which Injuries their sugar max
ing properties
las to the improvement to be made
at Medicine Lodge he said: The de-
partment for handling beets will be In
creased to handle the immense crop, the
improvements to cost $25, OO0o or possibly
more. This work has been commenced
and there is no doubt but that it will be
| completed by the time the beets can be
handled. In addition to the increase IN
this department the company will put
in small refinery, but large enough to
refine the raw sugar of the plant, and
possibly can accommodate some other
plants. In the refinery the animal char
coal filters will be used, and the estima-
ted cost in this department is placed at
$4,000. The department making sor-
ghum sugar will be increased and it is
expected the output in this branch will
be one and half million pounds which,
added to the beet sugar, will make three
or four million pounds for the plant. In
the state this year, in the entire state,
one and half million pounds was the
output and one-third of this was made
by the Medicine Lodge company
"Of the new plants and improvements
being made he enumerated AT Ne
leigh, Nebraska, beet sugar plant, cost
ing $25O,OOO. The company having the
matter in hand has a capital of $780,
OOO Also large plant at Grand Island.
Nebraska, to make beet sugar. Geo
B. Lord in Hamilton county, Kansas, is
at the head of a company going to put
in $780, 900 plant to handle cane and
beets to be raised on irrigated land.
The business in Pratt county, as far as
L know, is getting along nicely. The
plan there is for five plants for sorghum
sugar. The question is now being agi-
tated in Harvey county. A company is
figuring on putting in large amount of
money there and go into the sorghum
and beet sugar business. was recent
ly at Conway Springs, and l am salts
fed the business will be reorganized
there and next year that plant will be
numbered among the most successful in
the state. attended recent meeting
there, which was attended by the farm
ers and many others interested in the
sugar plant, and it was the general ex-
preston that all the help and encour-
agement possible for a community to !
give company would be given. Think
the new company will greatly enlarge
the plant and its ability to turn out SUI
gar in a business way. | am prepared |
TO say that every company, under reas-
onably fair conditions, going at the bus
mess in business like way, has sue
ceeded. The plants must have the best
Of machinery for the purpose, suitable
cane. good location as to water, and the
should know something of
the business. Good management is as
necessary in sugar making as in any
thing else.'
Summing up the situation and
plants! i think by this time next year
over two million dollars Will be invested
in sugar factories in Kansas. This |
believe low estimate. Sugar making
is now fact, and capital formerly re-
luctant is pow seeking to go into the
business
Mr.. Fred. HlnZe, who is connected
with the Medicine Lodge plant, and
who is graduate of sugar making
school in Germany with a four-liner
name to 1t, was present at Prof Cow
gll's talk and on the beet question said
to raise beets with best results should
in fall pillow the ground from one foot to
inches deep and ir.the spring
harrow the ground, then roll it and drill
beets in one and half inches deep. rows
eighteen inches apart aud beets in the
row about one foot apart Necessary to
keep weeds out from time of planting,
asst of March, to the harvest. about the
irst OF September. He said the depart
pent at Washington having the natter
n charge was greatly encouraged over
he results in the beet sugar line. lie
lad quite q correspondence over the
natter. as also had his brother Henry,
Who bias charge Of the beet sugar de-
'artment at the Medicine Lodge plant. ;,