The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-06-06
BEET INDUSTRY
sEUi.ErAIy EusK FEELS CONFIDENT
or MS FINAL SUCCESS.

spoiisibiiity I'm the Development of the
lnhustry-Sugar to- BE Made In Grand
Island, Ncb., This Year-A Government
Report.
The department of agriculture has inst
issued q report dealing exclusively with
the agricultural situation in this country
ut the present time. An interesting feat
ure for the northwestern states is some
general suggestions made regarding tho
introduction of the sugar beet industry in
these states. The report n y the evolu-
ton of the b%eet-sugar manufacture is o
growth of the present century. 1t was
f%ostered early in the century ty science
and government Though invention and
occurred during the last decade. Profit
ing by European experience, this country
has n less difficult problem to solve.
There have btem no satisfactory expert
periments in tho manufacture here until
the success of Alvardo in California.
Those of Maine, Wisconsin and Illi-
nois were preliminary and inconclusive.
They were necessarily failures from lack
of skill and completeness of preparation,
and still more from failnrs of farmers to
cooperate. In the Maine case the aver
nge contracts We're for only a fraction Of
IN ncrc. n gnrden patch receiving ordinary
field cultivation, without knowledge of the
necessary culture or fertilization, ard with
out the adjunct of cattle feeding and utili-
cation of the by-prodnct.
The report adds That there promises to
be n general revival of the experiment in
the northwestern states since the repeated
successes in California, with high promise
of continued enlargement. Nebraska has
already entered the lists. 1t would be an
ignominious acknowledgement to admit
that the manufacture can be carried on
successfully throughout Europe and can not
be Il success upon the continent of North
America, when a good yield of beets having
n high content of sugarhas boon repeatedly
grown from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and good sugar has been made year after
yen ut II profit.
This agricultural writer believes that the
farmers of this country have some respon-
sibility in the development of tue sugar
industry. The product cannot be made
without beets, which must come from the
fields of the farms. Hence the farmer has
n large stake in the skill aud technical
knowledge which yields the best results.
The most extensive preparations for beet
sugar production east of the Rocky noun
tains are to he made this season mt Grand
Island, Neb., and Medicine Lodge, Kan.
At the latter place beet sugar was made
last year.
The report goes on to say that the pre-.
vailing error III agricultural practice, as in
some other lines of effort in this country,
is to look only to the present hour, and get
the largest return to-day. without q thought
of the future. The beet sugar industry in-
wolves somethiI 6 more than the price of
Il ton of bects the present year. ]. i'll
clnles:
y. Rotation, which insures large yields anc
clean cultivation.
:. Symmetry in rural development, variety in
production.
,. Fertilization, prosiding in large degree tho
ma;orialt through ca!tle feeding.
\. Fine lsltl and thorough cultivation.
!. liner, II ed snlrr nf land, from it's enlarged
en- ncity for proitict ON. and the chcunening of
cost of product and resulting increase of net
profit.
III would he easy to show the relative nd
vance in value of lands in beet sugar dis
.,icts, the increase of agricultural wealth,
and the general prosperity enhanced by
this industry. Rotation is n necessity, the
soil must DO enriched. though fertilizers
must be applied TO preceding crops and not
to the crop of boets dire city. Sugar beet
culture is only ore link in the chain of
production which gives variety and pros
pcr.ty to agriculture.
Secretary Rusk and his aids are certain
that the general results of the experiments
made this year in raising the beets will be
highly successful.