The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-05-16
SUGAR INDUSTRY.
The Practical Operations
i'm Nebraska.
a Letter That will be Read
With interest by the peo-
pie of Utah County.

subject in Utah, consequently any in
formation associated with it is of loca
interest. The Omaha World- Herald
contains lengthy correspondence il
relation to the operations of the Nor.
folk Beet Sugar company, of Norfolk
Nebraska, from which we produce the
following:
1.-The Elkhorn valley is most beauti
full at this particular time of the veal
when it is taking on it's spring gar.
ments, and it seems as if every farmer
was alive as we ride up this beautiful
valley, and see them blowing and pre-
pairing their ground for the various
crops they propose to put IN. al
arou- the factory is just one great
field of beets. | counted forty-sil
teams at work from the factory build
ing yesterday morning, some blowing
some narrowing, others planting anC
preparing the ground for the seed, ot1
erS with Seeders actively at work put
ting the seed in where the ground haC
been made ready.
The company has spared no money
nor effort to make this year a telling
one III the agricultural part of thi.
great industry; for they realize that
this is the great question tC be solved
and they have supplied the farmers
(who have been unwilling to purchase
at reasonable figures, with a most com.
plete and perfect seeder, which vii
seed about fifteen acres per diem in Z
ve,y satisfactory manner
After this comes the cultiyator
which is another new implement, anC
which is very perfect continuance fol
sugar beet culture, materially saving
in cost and labor-seriOus obstacle.
heretofore in the way of this crop.
"Other agricultural companies are
now busily at work in perfecting :
harvester, which is expected to take
the beet out of the ground and cut the
top off. Thus, it is believed thai
within very short time-possi
bly, this year, but certainly within
a very limited period-beet culture vii
become much simplified as compared
with present and past methods. II
Europe where this industry has thriveC
to such great extent, good beet lane
is worth from $500 to 800 an acre, anC
even then has to have soMe S25 to S3t
extended each and every year for fer
tilizers. while in this great state O
ours we have, the richest land that pro
djces a beet varying from to s pei
cent more in saccharine matter thar
any in Europe and grown on land tina
can be had even here in this section a
from $50 to $40 an acre, and when 10
Gated at some distance from a railroad
station can be had at very much lowe
| figures; so that this new industry bid
fair to bring to us great many immi
grants.
Secretary Hamilton has told mt
Lat the French people doubt that III,
sugar beet can be produced in thi
! country as rich as has been alread,
demonstrated, and adds that large
and wealthy corporation in France has
stated i'll recent communication t.
| Linn that there were several hundred
families that would like to come t
Norfolk and buy twenty and THIRTY
acre plats Of ground for this purpose, i
| they could be assured that the beets
can be raised as rich as we here know
they can be produced; so that this new
and great industry that has come tt
our state means more than would ap
pear at first glance-it means grea
influx, not only from all parts of the
United States, but from the sugar pro
dncing section of Europe; it means
that instead of a farmer producing
crop that is more or less dependent
upon Chicago spectators he will pro
duce crop that is contracted to bt
sold before planted, and on which witt
our Yankee Ingenuity, he can make
from five to fifteen times much pc
acre az on any other crop he now pro
duces. And then again, the pulp tina
is partially given free to the farme
producing the beets is something tina
must not he overlooked, for it is a wei
known fact, and has been largely com
menteo upon recently by some of on
most authoritative agricultural papers
! that hog cholera is absolutely unknown
where beet pulp has been fed. This
alone, were factories in sufficient mum
bers established in eur western coun
try, would save millions of dollars t.
the farmers. Being located as we are
without minerals, timber, coal or rive
navigation, such local factories meal
more than those who do not think serl
ouslY of the question can comprehend
for the soil produces the raw maleria
which is manufactured into market
able article ar d sold out oftbe state O
out of the locality where the factory i
situated, thus bringing money int
both. which necessarily makes pros
porous state of affairs, while other fac
/ tories simply give employment 10 th
! idle hands of the town and use onl
raw material produced in other sec
tions and brought there for manufac
ture."
ANDERSON the photographer ha
taken in Mr.JOs. Madsen as a partner
The public will remember that Mi
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