The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-29
HOME GROWN CoFFEE.
Nebraska Farmers Preparing
Raise Chicory.

Raise Chicory.
Are you going to raise any chicorv ?''
has been the current inquiry of one far
mer to another when they met on the
streets of Gordon, Neb, for the last
month.
"Chicory? what's chicory?" would be
the frequent response.
Why, the stuff they put in Coffee
How does it grow?"
why, something like a parsnip. It is
drilled Implanted about corn planting
time; it goes from twelve to twenty tons
to the acre, and if they can get the farm
ers around Gordon to put 500 in acres,
Tor three years, the German Chicory COM
pany of O'Neill agrees to put in a drying
kiln here this year, which will cost about
$1,000, and if the stuff proves a success
they VII put In complete factory next
and will pay the farmers So for the green
roots at the kiln, and So after the factory
is built for the term OF three years.
This was the burden of many dialogues
heard lately, and thereby hangs a tale .
About a month ago Bennett Irwin stock
solicitor for the Fremont, Elkhorn &
Missouri Valley, came home to Gordon
from a trip down the road, and reported
that the people who run the chicory fac
tory at O'Neill wanted the farmers in the
vicinity OF Gordon to cultivate 800 acres
OF chicory on the terms set forth above.
He also said that the plant was cult
much harder and surer crop, and after
getting started was not affected in the
least by drought. H. G. Lyon, editor OF
the Gordon Herald, in company with Mr.
Irwin, departed at once for O'NeiIl to in
vestigate, and returning called meet
ing OF farmers, and laid the proposition
OF the O'Neill chicory factory before
them. A few in the community had raised
1T for home use and several of our Ger
man and Danish farmers had cultivated
1t in their own countries. These people
gave their experiences with it and as q
result about $50 acres were contracted for
at the first meeting.
But it is not generally known that the
only place in the United States where il
Nebraska; but such is the fact. There
are three or four factories for its pre-
paration in the United States besides that
at O'Neill, but they import the raw root
from Europe, where it's production at 81
per ton is a source of great revenue to
the farmers on the continent of cheaL
labor and valuable lands. The commodity
is in constantly increasing demand. The
purchased as ground coffee is chicory
Many people prefer 1t mixed with Java
of Mocha to the pure coffee. The O'Neill
people say that if they had twenty times
their present capacity and could run
night and day they would be unable &c
fill the orders sent them.
1t is produced as cheaply and yields as
abundantly as sugar beets, besides being
unaffected by dry weather. And if the
farmers of Germany and France can pro-
duce it at 81 per ton the farmers of Ne
braska, can do well by raising it at S
/ per ton. If manufacturers can afford tc
import it from Europe they can afford tc
pay the farmers at home the European
market price, plus transportation. Expe.
rience has shown that the climate and sol
of Nebraska, especially that of the west
ern part, is well adapted TO its growth
Hence it is fair to conclude that its cul.
tivation and preparation will become 8
great Nebraska industry.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.