The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-05

LSau OF Oeets the farmer brings
IN Is analyzed- The contents of every bat
.ery, TANK, pan aud boiler is constantly
tested. Expensive Dolariscopes. delicate
microscopes. barometers aud the full nara
pnernalia OF the analytical chemis. ia in
constant use. Each operator has before
MN chart that shows from hour 10 hour
low closely be has kept 70 the mark set by
MIR. Oxnard. In the manufacture of bee.
sugar. scientific skill and experience are
quite az essential as capital and ponderous
machinery.
Each sack Of sugar Is tested with the DO
iarlscope by the United States revenue off,
Ger. ana marked as II going to a bonded
warehouse, and check samples are sent to
the government chemist at Washington.
TEE PERFECTION OF THE PROCESS
and machinery at Grand Island will be ap-
preciated when it is known that the govern
ment officers books here show that the
sugar is all from SO 6-lO to 80 $40 pure.
The factory this year will run ebout
seventy days on suger and a couple Of
months more on molasses. Next year they
expect to run ninety days, or even one
hundred. In Germany the factories run
from sixty 10 seventy days. 1t is impoSsi-
bic to go through this factory, or in fact re-
main In town day without realizing that
this enterprise is revolutionizing one Of the
". renewing
the farmers Of one large district from some
OF the burdens Of transportation, and Great
Ing a healthy. active home market. The
factory distributes over $500, 600 among the
farmers this season, and they 10 turn dis
tribute good share Of 1t to the laborers
who cared for and gathered the crop. In
spite OF the drought OF last year and the
excess Of moisture this season, the farmers
have done well, better than many expected.
The profit any average season Is larger than
many are willing to believe, although they
are ready to admit that IL the people of
Europe can raise beets on costly land,
manufacture the sugar, ship it across the
ocean, and make profit, that the industry
should be a source Of wealth to our
farmers.
One affidavit handed me showed that the
cost to ono man near Grand Island per acre,
including seed, planting, thinning, hoeing,
cultivating, harvesting and hauling to fac
tory wes a little less than S25 per acre
Some atfidavits go as low as GA and $15 per
acre.
THE FIGURES
at Cassingny, France, according to NJ. E.
Du Ray, are SAY 81 per acre. The beets bring
this year "a per ton at the factory. or from
$50 to $50 per acre for the Nebraska farmer
Fifteen to twenty three tons of beets at "a
per ton beats corn at Il tons per acre, pease
at $50 bushels, or tomatoes at 800 bushels
The work is to be carefully and thoroughly
done. The roots cannot lbe left to grow half
above ground for exposure means less
sugar. The fields require a black, sandy
loan, deep blowing, regular fertilizinR, and
careful harvesting. The tops are left in the
field to enrich the foil. The shreds from
the factory are bought by the farmer for %
cents ton, and prove as good food for his
cows as the old mangel wurzel. Even the
lime products from the filter presses are
hauled to the farm as they are the best
fertilizers known for the beet. In no
other industry in the land are the in
terests of farmer and manufacturer so
closely related. The farmer gets cash for
his product and sendl his wagons home
loaded with the bye products of the factory
to Zurich his soil. The cultivation of the
sugar beet improves the soil for the oultiva-
ton of other crops instead Of exhausting IL.
Alkali soils are benefit rather than an in
jury, and many farmers are using for this
crop the very portions Of their farms that
they formerly mourned over.
The educational value Of the experiments
that were carried on for several years, and
Of the personal supervision given each field
by Mr.. Oxnard's agents Is shown in the fact
that the farmers are
KEEPING MORE COWS
and hogs by using beet shreds and are SELL
ing more cream, butter, cheese and meat.
They are learning that one acre we'll Guilt
waited Is worth ten half worked, that brains
can be used to advantage in farming, that
the scientific farmer is neither fool nor an
old fogy, but has come to stay, and they
arc diverslfying the branches of their work,
raising different and better paying crops
and finding a good home market.
The industry has even purified the polit-
ical atmosphere. The beet raising farmer
Of Nebraska appreciates the fact that there
is sugar in tho dead-beats of democracy
and are in favor Of no alliance except with
the capitalist OF the factory. They are fast
becoming bloated monopolists themselves
aud are very independent as TO whether the
rest OF the farming world likes it or not.
Is there danger Of overproduction? No.
Every cit zen of Nebraska has sweet
tooth developed or growing, and in spite
of the fact that a second factory has just
OxnArd, that is larger than this parent
one, yet both together will be unable at full
capacity to supply the state OF Nebraska.
Thsre is plenty OF room yet, especially for
factories of smaller capital that will pro-
duce syrup and raw sugar and send its pro-
duct to the larger rehneries. Suoh factories
would do just as much good to the farmer
and do not need as much skill to run. Mr..
Oxnard even offers to take half the stock in
all that are erected in Nebraska.
Other states will soon follow the example
set until, like Germany, the United States
will become an exporter instead Of importer
of sugar.