Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-01-13
From Beet Sugar Enterprise, Lincoln. Nsbras-
ka.
The Best Sugar Industry from an Economic
Standpoint.


The SUCCESS which has attended the cul-
tivation Of the best and mhnuf.oturs Of
beet sugar in France. Belgium, Germany,
Austria and Russia readers is altogether
certain that this country can be made Who'll
iy independent OF foreign oouRtriss for that
srtiele which now obligss us to psy annual
Iy 800, 900, 900 foreign labor ia the form of
sugar. But hero we hsss only portion Of
the coed which would result frora the con-
summation CT this measure Of irdepond-
ence. For it would enable us al the same
time to improve the productive power of
our soil and utilize the beet pulp in the fat
tenipg of cattle, the number of which latter
would largely increase in those localities in
which the beet was cultivated.
But to all of these considerations we
should add the additional and even more
important one Of the facility which the In
PRODUCTION of Few and green crop would
give in the practice OF proper rotation of
crops in sections in which rotation has no
existence. In much the larger portion of
the United States, tho farmer does not eul-
tivate what crops he would, but what he
may. A population scattered over large
extent of territory, with but little di7ersi-
f1ca!ion in its industries, must raise those
things which will bear transportation to q
distant market, to Nov York, Chicago or
Liverpool for instance. These are general
ly wheat. corn, tobacco or cotton. In tho
northern states there can be but little or no
rotation over most of their territory beyond
that given by wheat and corn; these two
crops both greatly exhaussing the soil, and
drawing much the same constituents from
it The sugar beet would be muah less ex-
hsustive, and would take other and different
clements, while at the same time the IA an
ufaosure Of sugar would diversity the in
dustry Of given locality by creating de-
msnd for great variety Of products re-
quired to meet the wants Of those who were
engaged in converting the beet Into sugar
We have much to learn and much to do
in this country in order to tnra to proper
| account the great gifts Of nature which lie
all around and about us. We must diversity
our industries in order to bring consumers
TO the eide of products. Emaneipate our
selves from the effects Of the grinding tax
OF transportation, restore the esments to
the soils introduce proper rotation of
crops, utilize products which now are vast
ed, give full enployinents to all OF our pso-
pie and at every se2son of the year alike:
and finally rid ourselves OF financial depend.
ence on Europe. In our opinion there Is
no industry which is new and untried in this
country which promises to fulfill all of these
conditions more thoroughly than that of
the sugar beet and its resulting sugar, and
we confidently expect that with fair and
just encouragement on the part of our gov
ernment granted to this new industry, as
to others in the past, the day ia not far dis
tsns when this consummation, 60 devoutly
to be wished fer, will have been realized, and
that we shall then possess an industry
which, with those already existing, viii re-
suit in fnal ending to condition of our
foreign trade which has made this country
from the earliest hour of its settlement un.
til to day debtor to the geat of she world for
its sugar.