Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-12
BEET SUGAR.

meyer, Tile chemist.
Anything in regard to the growing OF
the sugar beet is particularly interesting
to the people of this section of North Da-
kota because of the fact that the conditions
of the soil and climate on the Missouri
slope are particularly adapted to the sue
vegetable. Prof. Meyer, the chemist. con-
tributes the following article to the st.
Paul Globe:
Very seldom in the history of our COM
merce has there been such a great increase
in the importation Of an article as there
has been in the raw sugar from Germany
Importation amounted to 81, 800, 900, and
last year it increased to $16, 100000. Sugar
is manufactured in that country exclusive
ly of the sugar beet, and only a small part
OF the raw sugar we import comes from
that country. What an enormous capital
is lost to us every year.
The question rises. what can be done to
correct this evil? May we not, even in our
own state, try the beet sugar culture, which
has been such a great success for years in
Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Den
mark and Russia? In extensive expert
ments made the last twenty. five years is
disclosed the fact that the sugar beet might
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the United States, and it will especially
thrive in the coast valleys of California,
Oregon and Washington, in large districts
in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Illinois, etc. 10 make a failure i'm
possible, experiments ought to be made by
the farmers to ascertain in what districts
ent day the beet barons, like Claus Spreck.
els, the sugar trust, ETC., had the whole
benefit, as there is no tariff on raw sugar,
and they can keep up the price by control
ling the market. The .tillers of our soil
ought to reap, at least a part of
these profits for themselves. by trying
the rational cultivation of the sugar beet,
to INDUCE capitalists to invest in the enter
prise. 1t will pay the farmer to raise the
beet as fodder for his cattle; they eat them
with eagerness. especially the leaves. The
following experiments have been recorded
by DR.. W. Tod: Six cows of about the
same weight and from eight to twelve
weeks new milchers were selected and fed
daily with thirty five pounds beets (press
refuse at a sugar factory, five pounds
beet leaves, six pounds Of barley straw, for
four weeks the constant quality of milk
received being about the same. aThen
three COWS, we will call A, got for four
weeks forty pounds beet press refuse, six
other three (B), where fed with twenty-six
and two-thirds pounds beet press refuse,
six pounds barley straw. In addition, the
three cows named B get for four weeks
the first week thirteen and ope-half pounds
beet leaves (the leaves had been sailed
down, the second week sixteen and two
thirds, the third d. twenty and and the fourth
rem remark peb oay The ie auanti tsSot Of m Mns
received from the cows (A) In
the four weeks trial reduced from 2b.78 to
about 70 pounds each during the last week
while the Other rl three 3D. with the addi-
quality from 26.09 to 81 40. The beet needs
a we'll cultivated soft soil, which will not
hinder the tap root from entering the
ground to the necessary depth, and to ex-
pand the volume of the beet, which is
essential with the development of the
BILE to the atmospheric air and the neces-
sary moisture, and as a matter of course,
kept from getting crusty. The plant will
not thrive when the tap root strikes rocks
or stagnant water. Heavy, sour or wet
soil Is not adapted for the cultivation of
the beet, but if there is a soft, black, sandy
loan Of reasonable depth, of easy access to
we might call a natural-beet soil. The
seed must not be drilled too far apart, as
the beets must not grow too large, in
which case they contain more water than
sugar. Inc fOrmatlOn OF the sugar lies
mostly on these conditions: Warm wealth
er n warm rains. A warm, moist May
will give the plants a hearty start, a hot
July furthers the development of the seed
stalk; abundant rains in July and August
will bring good sizes, and a dry Septem-
Der is essential with the formation Of the
sugar. The manufacture Of beet sugar.
promises a great future, so farmers, try
beet culture.
Menoken Itoms. s&
Mr.. Frank Rawlings of Sterling took
charge of the Menoken school Monday,
with a large number of new scholars. !
Very little wheat coming in, owing to
the decrease in price.
BE-. Scovil, the enterprising Mckenzie
merchant, will ship about 1000 dressed
poultry to Butte, Mont, to-day.
True Waldorf has accepted work on the
Clark farm for tho Uintar 't-E A.ttLLrr.HT