Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-07-12
Sugar Beet Industry.

is especially interesting to our
readers just now, when their atten-
ton is being turned to the industry
mentioned above: "In 1897, with
pecuniary assistance Of King Fred
erich Wilhelm III of Prussia, Franz
Carl Achard established at Stei;.au
the first sugar beet factory in the
world. At present, there are about
., 500 beet sugar factories in Europe,
and the capital invested in them is
over 5000, 900, 900, Nearly 5000,
900 acles are under beet cultivation
giving employment to about 600, 900
farm hands and boys, and produc-
ing over 80, 900, 900 tons of beets
from which $500, 900 tons of beet
sugar are made, which is over one
half of the sugar crop of the world
The sugar beet has made Germany
the foremost sugar producing coun-
try in the world, her product in
ISoI-o2 being 1880, 900 tons, great
quantities of which are shipped to
foreign countries.
In California there are three fac
tories for the manufacture of beet
sugar in profitable operation. Any
soil that will grow wheat success.
fully will give a good crop of beets
with high percentage of sugar,
1t is the opinion of experts that the
Willamette, Umpqua and Rogue
river valleys are by climate condi-
tions better suited to sugar beet
cultivation than any part Of Ger
many, and equal if not superior to
the south of France.
For successful cultivation of the
sugar beet, the soil should be
plowed deeply both i'll fall and
spring, we'll drained, and put in
mellow, pulverized state of a gar
den plot. The beets should not
attain a weight of more than two
pounds, and therefore the plants
should not stand further apart in
the row than four to six inches.
A beet which grows out of the
ground is worthless for sugar.
About 20 pounds Of seed to the
acre should be planted, not later
than April, if possible. Expert
ments in Oregon on a small scale
have resulted in a yield of about
20 tons per acre with percentage
of sugar of about IA per cent. The
cost of sugar raising can be best
told by the following statement
from a. F. Richardson, a grower
in California, in 1889, having II
acres in cultivation:
Flowing and narrowing. $IIo.o 90
Sowing g................ 600
Narrowing. 800
Four days cultivation @$2. 800
20 days thinning "a $I.a5.. 2s rs
a4A days thinning @ $I.25. 80 IS
Five days hoeing @ $I.a5. 6a5
Nine days hoeing q $I.75. IS rs
Seven days hoeing a $I.75. IL IS
e1a days hoeing, end time,
"a $r.75........, I6 62
lncldentalS .............,. 7 so
Topping and unloading r7o
tons @ Soc. .......... 1856 o.
Hauling q SOC, miles. :. s. 90
Flowing up a aoc. c........ "a 90
lotal ............... S4oo 90
Value Of the I7o tons. :. -. 82I 90
Net profit ...........,. .$$Jca 90
Net profit per acre. ......$ ao 90
Here we would say that the
above table and per centages
would not apply to lands surround
ing Toledo. The official analysis
by an expert shows I6 per cent. of
saccharine matter in the Toledo
beet, and the yield is enormously
larger than that mentioned above.
Piof. Irish, ofthe State Agricultural
college, who made the analysis,
and report upon the same says:
"'rhe following per cent. Of
sugar was obtained from beets in