St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-23
GROW SUGAR BEETS.
Hopeful Outlook of the Move
ment to Relieve the
Farmer
And Remove dis Dependence
Upon email Grain
Crops.
Senator Lienau ellis OF the
Success Met With Else
where.
The Matter Will Be Pushed in
the Next Legisla-
ture.

The security of the state rests upon
the prosperity of the farmers. This S
all axiom which must be appreciated by
the most minimizing citizen. And the
prosperity OF the farmers depends
largely upon their diversity of farming
interests. Almost without exception
the successful farmer owes his prosper
ity to the fact that he has planted every
kind of farming product to which the
climate and character of his soil are
favorable, and in addition he has raised
as many kinds of live stock as can thrive
under the Surrounding circumstances.
In Illinois and Iowa, probably the most
thriving agricultural districts IN tn e
world, the successful farmers raise
corn, hogs, some wheat, oats, barley,
rye, fax, cows, beef cattle. and all
kinds of poultry; some OF them also
raise sheep. Thus they are not de-
pendent upon any one crop, the failure
of which can leave them fiat.
In Minnesota the average farmer has
for years placed his whole reliance on
wheat. Year after year ne has placed
the great portion Of his farmin wheat.
AS result, he is to lay living but little
better than from hand to mouth. This
is the average farmer. Minnesota has
been one OF the greatest wheat districts
in the world. and is today fair wheat
country, but in great part of the state
this cereal has become an uncertain
crop. This is not corn state. The
frosts scOme too early in most OF the
state for corn. The future prosperity
of the farmers of Minnesota depends
upon building up a University of prod
ucts. But what can this diversity of
products be? asks the average farmer.
Procuring the seed.
Senator WashDurn procured from the
bureau of agriculture at Washington
quantity of the seed OF the best sugar
beet known, and placed some of it at
AnuKa, some at Red Wing, and some at
several other points both north and
south i'll the state, 10 be planted as an
experiment. The product was sent not
long ago from the various points to a
sugar beet factory in Nebraska to be
tested as to the per cent the beetS con-
tanned 1t was round that they con-
tanned per cent more sugar than the
celebrated sugar beet product Of France
and Germany, and per cent more than
the sugar beet which is now being sue
cessfuly raised in Nebraska. Besides
the Yield of beetS at every point in
Minnesota was very large.
Senator Lienau has the utmost faith
in the sugar beet project for Minnesota,
and thinks that if the farmers will take
hold of it il will prove solution of the
question, What can the farmers raise
besides wheat which will be protitable?''
The senator introduced bill in the last
legislature which provided bounty to
be given by the state OF ~ cents
pound to the farmers for all sugar pro-
duced from their beet product. The bill
passed the senate twice, and then the
farmers in the house defeated it
through the erroneous impression that 1t
was st. Paul and Minneapolis scheme.
Mr.. Lienau has made a study of the
sugar beet Industry of France and Ger
many, and is equipped with facts and
figures which must convince the most
ObtuSe of the merits of the scheme.
Speaking of The subject last evening he
said:
''This industry came into existence in
France and Germany somewhere about
1856. Prior to that time 1.-The farmers
there were in worse condition than
ours are in now. They were raising
barley, rye 81 wheat year after year,
and these crops were gradually growing
poorer until the farmers were on
The Verge OF Starvation.
The capitalists in the cities undertook
to help them out by starting sugar beet
factories. The farmers did not take
kindly to the factories which were eS-
tablished in the cities, and the scheme
ended in dismal failure. Then the
70 tn ctn
tories of their own. Today those couI-
tries are covered with surgar beet fac
tories which belong to the farmers. All
the sugar consumed there is from the
beet. The farmers have learned to
rotate their crops, so that the land
which produced sugar beetS this
year will produce cereals next. The
beet does not impoverish the landJ but
enriches and leaves it in firSt-class con-
dItion for wheat and other crops. A
peculiar feature of the sugar beet is that
ii the beet does not ripen in time for
the harvest it may be left in the ground
until it does ripen. Freezing does not
harm it in the least. The farmers in
district club together and put up a fac
tory; that is, they form joint stock
company, and place the factory under
the management of man who under
stands the business. Ii the market for
their crop of beets IS poor, they make it
up on the sale of the sugar, which, in
such case, is likely to bring good price.
And so when sugar is cheap they may
find something OF margin on the beet
product. Out OF the two horns they
most invariably come out
With a Fair Profit,
Remember that ina Germany and
France farm lands are worth from $3.50