The Dickinson press., 1892-11-19
IN OPEN LETTER TO STARK COUNTY FARMERS.
A Beet Sugar Factory ASkc for Admission Among
Us. Let Every Farmer Read. Ponder
And at Once Avail Himself Of the Golden 0pportu.
nifty. 1t is Better Than Silver Mining.

The Los Angeles Chronicle says re.
spccting beet sugar culture in Califor-
nia, that sit is the foundation of greater
wealth to the state than all the gold that
the placcrs, and river beds, anl quarts
lcdgcs ever produced"
The scasonablcncss of that statement
will be obvious to any who will consid-
er for a moment that while gold mining
never paid more than one man in Il hun
dred. even i'll The early days of 10. that
sugar beet culture actually pays every
man who undertakes it in the vicinity
Of Il sugar factory more dollars and cents
per acre than any other farm crop either
in America, France, Germany or Aus
tria.
The object of 'his letter is to show
the people OF this county how we'll the
business is paying elsewhere, and to
n'stly invite correspondence upon
the subject matter If this letter. do
this knowing that beet sugar factory
is now within our reach. and comes
knocking at our doors for admission
upon the terms hereinafter named, and
on Il scale equal TO any demand that we
can create by llle cultivation of sugar
bccts. will not waste printers ink
and tax editorial patience in discussing
the sclf-cvidcnt proposition that Stark
county soil cannot be surpassed in The
production of root crops under orlina-
rily favorable conditions. Evcry farm
cr knows this fact.
Our elderly sister state of Nebraska.
through her experimental, for several
years past has expended large amounts
of money and time i'll testing the culti-
vation OF sugar bcets us will be seen
from ihc following quotation from the
Beet Sugar Enterprise and such results
in the same latitude. and just across our
borders ought 10 convince the people of
Stark county hat we need not waste
time and opportunity rs is now
awaiting our decision-by experiment
ing with bccts several years before we
decide whether we want IL factory.
The above named paper says: THE
results of general experiments thata,avc
been made through the state of Nebras-
lla for number of years. reveal the fact
that sugar bccts of exceptional richness
in sugar can be grown in all parts of the
IN Il IL
Nebraska has sufficiently demonstrated
this whole matter for us.
The same papcr is authority for the
following statement respecting the pro.
duction Of about twice as many bcets
per acre as are raised in California. 1t
says: "These results disclose this very
important fact, of which mention is
made in another article. that an average
tonnage o. thirty-onc and one-half tons
of bects were grown to the acre, and all
expense for labor and seed ranged from
$40 ii to Ss3275 per acre, practically 81
per tom
| 1t is also notable fact that Nebraska
| in making her experiments did it with
her own Silly white hands, in all parts
of the state, and Of course q, a cost II
above what it would now cost us to do
the same work with our present facili-
ties Of doing it by machinery. Machines
are now made. both cheap and simple,
that Will plant and cultivate three rows
at a time, and run by horse power, thus
reducing the cost of planting to min
imum. On this subject the sumo paper
contains the following: This expense
can uuqucstionDbly be chcapened by a
more liberal use of implements that arc
now invented and being manufactured
in this country for each separate part OF
sugar beet eulture-plantlng. .cultivating
and harvesting.''
The beet sugar camppign jast closct
in California demonstrates the busincs:
of growing bccts. aud the manufacture
ing of them into sugar, one of the rich
est sources of farm revenue for til;
amount Of labor required Of any farm
crop known, as will be seen by the fol
lowing statistical facts drawn from re
liable sources: The rroduct of bcets a
the one factory at China. California. wa
27.O9l tons. The average yield per acr'
, was fourteen to fifteen tons. The pric,
paid for them was from S4.25 to S6.G
per ton-the price being regulated b.
the average percentage of sugar con
taincd i'll the beets. which average i
about 15 per cent.-cach 100 pounds o
bcets yielding about fifteen pounds o
sugar.
, will not stop to make the computa
ton to show the magnificent margin o
Profit left for the manufacturers. bll
] will say that like righteousness an,
e peace, capital and labor have sweetl
= kissed each other in this new golden ell
p terprisc, and that haven unity of in
terest exists stronger than is found i
many other reiations of capital and Ia
: Dor. 1t will be seen from what has bee
J; said that this sugar beet industry
= worthy of consideration and from til
n further fact that it will pay the farmer
of Stark county oa their investment g
3 labor better than wheat, cattle. sheep c
y horses cccause it would be the simpl
y product of little additional labor. an
not much of capital invested. No gre:
changes need be made in any of OF
f present industries, and nearly ever
d farmer in the county is now in conditio
IS financially 10 add from 5000 to 1000 {
it his annual increase, by planting frol
IS five TO ten acres of sugar beets.
10 Our state offers a bounty of two cen
nor mound ON the dnmastic nrod.e4