The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-05-03
BEET SUGAR.

Congressman William j. Bryan of
Nebraska, the Democratic member
of the Legation from that state, in
his speech of few days ago derided
the bounty on sugar, which the Re-
puhicans provided in the Mckinley
law in order to save the Democratic
planters of Louisiana from ruin.
Somebody on the Democratic side
asked if the sugar subsidy would
make the maple trees grow larger.
When the laughter had subsidized,
Mr.. Bryan replied: "lf the Repub-
lican statements be true, they will.
Why, with protection the sugar beets
will grow so large that all you will
have to do will be to bore holes into
them and extract sugar as you do
from the maple trees"
Very funny!
But the sugar bounty is encourag-
ing experiments with beet sugar in
Mr. Bryan's own state. The beet
sugar bulletin issued from Nebraska
university on the first of March
shows that the average cost of pro-
ducing sugar beets in the Lancaster
county experiments was in one series
S32 IS per acre. The yield averaged
3l.5O tons, and the cost of produce
ton was therefore but tritle in eX-
cess of 81 per tou In another series
the cost was little more, but there
is reason to believe that the beets
can be grown for commercial pur-
! poses in this country as cheaply per
ton as in any other part of the coun-
try, the experiments conducted thus
far, indeed, having shown a consider
able advantage for this locality over
other portions of the state. Should
it become possible for the average
farmer to duplicate the university
experiments as TO cost and yield his
net profits would be from $50 to $50
per acre, using the scale of prices
for the beets now paid at the Grand
Island and Norfolk factories. Taking
the standard of cost prevailing over
Nebraska generally, about Sl.5O per
ton, he would still clear more than
$40 per acre.
A meeting of the Lancaster Sugar
Beet Association was held few
days ago at Lincoln. There was a
big attendance of land owners and
farmers from every part of the
county. A series of experiments is
to be conducted that will convince
farmers as well as capitalists that
there is money for everybody con-
cerned in developing this new and
promising industry.
The Nebraska estate Journal, y
published at Lincoln, is enthusiastic
over the prospect. "The people OF
Lincoln ought to be greatly inte-
rested in this movement" it says,
"for its success means much for the
city. The factory and beet fields
will give employment for large num-
bers of people in the city directly
The prestige of the city as CONNER
cial point will be vastly increased by
the manufacture of sugar here anC
its distribution from this center. AnC
more important than all, perhaps
will be the great increase in the
populaIIOn Vi Ine county, WHICH Il
all practically dependent upon Lin
coin for supplies. The sugar indus
try will add thousands of people tC
the population of Lincoln directly
and indirectly, and its establishment
is therefore matter of keen interes
to the people who are identified will
the city, and whose fortunes are in
dlssoIubly bound up in its future
If the two-cent bounty on suga
shall encourage the development of :
big sugar beet industry in the UniteC
States, particularly in Nebraska, thC
laugh will be on Mr.. Bryan. Lock
port, n. Y, journal.