Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-01-23

No. of Samples. Sugar
Washington ..............,... IL 1475
Oregon OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 30 1885
Montana. 40 10
Pennsylvania ................ 1902
Michigan ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 40 1877
North Dakota. ................ IL 1888
South Dakota. ................2 02 1920
Ohio .,................ :. 81 1877
Indiana. Observation-Disclosures. IL 11.90
Minnesota 49,. ........,..... "a 1l56
Nebraska ...... .............. SO liza
Wisconsin Observation-Disclosures 33 11.H
Iowa ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4 II 39
IiLhols .......,.............. "a LID
new ork.'.................. II %
Mlssourl.t ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IL lO.93
To the statement relative to Ne
braska's tests, Prof III. H. Nichol-
son, director of the Nebraska sta
ton, and a man who has done
much towards the advancement of
the sugar beet industry in the West,
takes exceptions, and comes for
ward with figures showing that in
stead of there being 11.34 per cent.
sugar in Nebraska beets there 14.05
per cent, which is an average of
upward of 10000 analyses. There
fore Nebraska stands second in the
list instead of eleventh as appears
from the above.
Now the question is, what place
does Nevada occupy? The state
ment of our best record does not
appear in the above list, presumably
for the reason that at the time it
was compiled our results had not
been made public.
By referring to Bulletin No. Is,
Nevada Experiment Station, page
81, it will be seen that the known
varieties from the State at large
averaged 14.42 per cent. sugar, and
those grown on the station farm
averaged 1896 per cent. sugar, Civ
ing general average of 1859 per
cent, which would have been the
seasons average had it not been for
the number of samples of unknown
variety, the seed of which was pur-
chased from the supply of garden
seed usually found in the general
country store. These samples anal
yzed very low and reduced the final
average to 1920 average of 210
samples ranging from 201 per cent.
to % per cent.
These figures, according to the
above table, place Nevada third in
the list of beet growing States. Of
the 210 samples analysed, 81 had
sugar percentage between II and IS;
and AZ attained percentage of Is
and over, one sample Analysing 23.6
per cent. sugar. This is certainly
good showing when we consider that
142 of these samples were grown by
farmers and received only such care
and cultivation as the busy farmer
in the rush of the seasons work
could give them. Where beets re-
ceive careful attention and thorough
cultivation they attain a first-cIass
sugar percentage.
In further discussing the beet
question Prof. Nicholson says, with
all of which we most heartily agree:
'The sugar content at best is but
one of the many factors in a very
complicated problem. Taken by
itself it is of little or no value. Of
greater Importance are the factors of
soil, climate and people making up
the community. In determining
whether or not this industry can e
planted in any locality all these
factors should be taken into account
each by itself and then in their
complicated relations to each other.
For example, in considering the
climate, the temperature may be
favorable, there may be the proper
amount of precipitation, yet the
climate as whole may be unsuited.
With the ideal soil and climate and
the people net sufficiently interested
to thoroughly learn the business, it
could not be introduced.
There is no royal road to the So
luton Of this great question of such
paramount interest in the North
west, 1t cannot be studied at arms
length. Information of any value
must be obtained on the ground by
experts who are in touch with the
people and can patiently study the
question from its very Foundation.
The United States Government
has established and maintains in
each State and Territory an expert
ment station, manned by such ex-
perts whose business it is to seek
for information on these far-reach-
ing and deep-seated questions; when
found to give it to the people. Be-
ing free from political influence,
non-partisan in every respect, they
are in a position to give facts unbi-
ased by any consideration, TO
them the people of these States and
Territories should look for the best
"