The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1890-05-30
THE SUGAR BEET INDUSTRY
Secretary Rusk Feels Confident
OF the Final Success of
the Experiment.
Sugar To Be Made at Grand Island
Neb. A Government
Report
Net Decrease In the Total County
Debt the Last Ten Years
General News.


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The department OF agriculture has jnst
issued o report dealing exclusively With
the agricultural situation IN this country
at the present time. An interesting feat
ure for the northwestern states In some
general suggestions made regarding the
Introduction Of the sugar beet industry In
these states. The report says the evolu-
tion of the beet-sugar manufacture In O
growth Of the present century. II was
fostered early In the century ky science
and government through invention and
bounty, yet half OF its development has
occurred during the last decade. Profit
ing by European experience, this conntry
has q less difficult problem to solve.
There have been no satisfactory expert
periments In the manufacture here until
the success Of Aivardo In California.
Those of Maine, Wisconsin and ILL.,
n0is we're preliminary and inconclusive.
They wers necessarily failures from lack
OF skill and completeness of preparation,
and still more from failure OF farmers TO
cooperate. In the Maine case the aver
age contracts were for only fraction OF
an acre, garden patch receiving ordinary
field cultivation, without knowledge OF the
necessary culture or fertilization, and with
out the adjunct OF cattle feeding and utili-
zation Of the by-product.
The report adds that there promises 10
be eeaerai revival Of the experiment. In
the northwestern states since the repeated
of continued enlargement. Nebraska has
already entered the lists. II would be an
ignominious acknowledgement TO admit
that the manufacture can be carried ON
successfully throughout Europe and can not
be success upon the continent Of North
America, when o good yield Of beets having
. high content Of sugar has been repeatedly
grown from the Atlantic TO the Pacific,
and good sugarlhas been made year after
year as profit.
This agricultural writer believes that the
farmers OF this country have some respon-
sIbilify In the development Of tho sugar
iRaH5iEy srsx xhe lRE2dass la cannot Be nsde
sslds 81 ths farms. Hence tEg fkmssr hAs
q large stake in ths skill and technical
knowledge which yields the beat results.
The most extensive preparations for beet
sugar production east OF the Rocky noun
tains are to be made this season at Grand
Island. Nsb., and Medicine Lodge, Kan.
AZ the latter place beet sugar was made
last year.
The report goes on 10 say that the pre-
vailing error In agricultural practice, as In
some other lines of effort In this country,
Ii to look only to the present hour, andget
the largest return to-day, without thought
OF the future. The beet sugar industry in
wolves something more than the prise of
q ton of beets tho present year. IL In
cludes:
1. Rotation. which insures large yields ana
clean cultivation.
a. symmetry IN rural development, variety in
production.
3 Fertilization. providing In Large degree the
material through cattle feeding.
d Fine tllth and thorough cultivation.
& Increased value Of land, from it's enlarged
capacity for production. and the cheapening Of
cost OF product and resulting increase OF net
profit.
II would be easy to show the relative adj
vance in value of lands In beet sugar dis
tricts, the increase of agricultural wealth,
and the general prosperity enhanced by
this industry. Rotation Is q necessity, the
soil must be enriched, though fertilizers
must be applied to preceding crops and not
10 the crop of beets directly. Sugar beet
culture IL only one link In the chain OF
production which gives variety and pros
perity TO agriculture.
Secretary Rusk and his aids arc certain
that the general results OF the experiments
made this year In raising the beets viii be
| highly successful.