Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-10-17
The Analysis of the Sugar Beets
Sent to Washington Show q Pay
ing Percentage of Sugar.
Cheap Fuel and State and National
Bounties Will Make the In
dustry Profitable.
Comparisons Between Denmark and
MinnesOta-The Climate Here
is Favorable.
The Tribune Man Listens to a. Tariff
Debate by a Number of Our
5'. Citizens.
The Slope 6 Beet.
from Sundays Daily.

The Slope Sugar Beet.
from Sundays Dai!y.l
John Yegen sent a sample of sugar beets
to the United States Agricultural depart
ment for analysis, and Friday he received
a report of the analysis. John is jubilant
over the report and it shows that, with the
advantages enjoyed by the slope-items of
cheap fuel and free landslide farmer here
can compete with the world. The beet
grower of the old world pays the profits of
his industry to the landlord, while here the
farmer gets all that his labor produces.
The commissioner, in making a compar-
ison Of the cost of production of beet
sugar in Minnesota and Denmark, says
the high rate of labor in the north
west would add considerably to the ex-
penses, but it is quite different in regard to
other expenses than laboring. He says:
"The cheapness of land in the northwest
as compared with expensive land in the
old country will, no doubt, do much to-
ward reduce the expense of the growing Of
beets in Minnesota. In Denmark the rent
for good land amounts to 81 to So an acre.
In Germany as much as $16 an acre is paid
yearly for a rentage lasting ten or twenty
years. In the northwest improved land
could be had for less than half the rent in
Denmark"
The slope has thousands of acres of the
richest soil in the world, which can be had
for filing fees. So this item-and a very
considerable one, too-would be clean
profit to the beet grower.
Again he says: "In the factory coal
plays a prominent part among the ex-
& penses other than labor. In Denmark this
item amounts to $1.20 per ton on beets, or
"a of a cent per pound of sugar-the price
of coal being Sc per ton. This price being
reduced to $6 per ton. the expense of fuel
would be 40 cents per ton of beets, or II
cents per pound of sugar."
1t would be safe to say that a manufac-
turerer of sugar could get his coal for 50 a
ton on the slope. In fact, he could build
his factory over a bed of coal-raise his
beets on top of the earth and dig his fuel
/ underneatfl-all OF the same section of
land.
In summing up, the following figures are
{ arrived at by the commissioner in favor or
an disfavOr of the sugar industry in Mime
sofa, as compared with Denmark, pro-
vlded . per cent. of sugar per ton Of beets
Is realized in both countries:
Minnesota. Extra expenses. Savings.
Labor in held. 90 S..
Labor in factory. l Is 49,.
Fl Hea -. - ~
5g Z uoA. -. ~
Duty ............. ..........".... 80. 5 go
Deductine the extra expenses 50 from e th 30
savings, the real savings in favor of Min
III noSOta are SS.4S.
He further says: "But the whole calcula-
ton depends upon the question, can beets
be grown in Minnesota which will yield 8
per cent. of sugar? The most careful
ture, and OF analysis of the soil can. not de-
eide tile question. The only way is to
VI try"
Mr.. Yegen is nothing if not progressive,
and here is the report received from II. w.
Wiley, a chemist of the department:
average weight of ~beets-grams ........... 1853
i Cane sugar. per cent. of Deets 1914
II Cane sugar. per cent. OF juice .............1O.9
Ash, per cent. of inice.........."........ !. 80
n Coef6cient of purity 1913
The above analysis is very favorable lie.
s# The average cOetficient of purity of Kansas
grown beets IS 69.65 and the highest CO.
efficient of purity, 75.l1. The above analy-
SS8 per cent. being all that is necessary to in
sure profitable manufacture.
me slope Is pre-eminently a sheep and
cattle country, and here is where the sugar
beet industry would be Of incalcuable
value. The leaves OF the beet as a source
the attention they deserve. Professor
! Maerker, in giving the results of his expert
ments to the Central Agricultural society
OF the duchy of Brunswick, SAYS: Gin feed
ing ten sheep with beet leaves, allowing
the animals to consume what they liked,
TVRQ nnInho WQr0 Onnc,,poo1 urSk1,N,,k lo~o
age to health, and yielding an increase of
weight OF from Alt to 4.8 pounds and a
money value of from II to IA cents. In The
leaves Of the beet is thus found Al excel
leDt article of diet for the feeding of cattle.
The leaves may be valued at from Is to 80
1 that one acre will yield varying from H.
500 to $4,000 pounds, that amount would
represent a food valve per acre of from 1926
The climatic conditions of the slope for
the cultivation and growth of the beat are
almost perfect. As q rule the fall months
n Dakota are dry. Uncle Jerry says "that
9 wet September and October are more
likely TO injure a crop of sugar beets than
g moderately dry July or August, A wet
autumn Mast succeeding a dry summer is al
charine qualities of the beet before it can
be properly harvested. In this regard the
two Dakotas are more favorably situated
than Oregon and Washington" The sam
pies sent to the department by Mr.. Yegen
he will experiment with the beet on up
land. BE is sanguine that the Dakotas
will be the sugar producing states of the
union. He says: "Why shouldn't we.
My analysis is 2 per cent. better than Ger.
many. The soil needs no fertilizer. 1t is
"a rich sandy loom that is not equalled
anywhere in the world. I tell you I think
I'm on the right track, and before long
you will see the brewery q sugar factory"
Amen, John. Push the industry, and If
no monument to keep your memory fresh
In the minds of future Dakotans. Z
The Great Tariff Debate.
From fridays Daily.]
Half q dozen men were gathered yester-
Ilday in the Sheridan hOnsa talkin0. IL