Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-01-04

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These figures might be misleading If
1t were not repeated that the best ten
results In each year are quoted. This
is done to show what can be accom-
plished. Poorer results will, as a mat
ter OF course, pull the average down
considerably. This year, 1893, the
average amount received per acre fer
all acres raised will be between $50
and 500 per acre.
The total acreage raised by farmers
for the Grand Island factory this year
vas 225. This excludes Mr.. Hayward
Leavitt, who has raised beets very cx-
tensively every year and has ABB acres
this season. The gentleman is excepted
because the other 225 acres repre- sents
about $50 farmers.
The improvement Company contract
to furnish 1900 acres OF beets was
carried out and the Oxnard Com
pany was compelled to raise its W
beets, planting in this year ,ls5 acres.
The present general sentiment among
farmers, and the list of contracts
already made for the season OF 1894,
Indicate final results.
The cost of raising beets is estimated
to be between $l3 and Sl5 per acre,
when the farmer Is no necessitated to
hire more labor than usual on account
Of his beet crop, and about $50 per acre
when he engages special service for
baets. Mr.. Hayward Leavitt, who has
raised beets extensively since the birth
OF the industry, gave in his address to
a sugar beet convention in 1881. the
following information as to the cost Ct
raising an acre OF beets:
Flowing ten TO twelve inches deep =. ....9 | 80
Narrowing and rolling twice ..........r ~
Seeding and Including rental OF drill. "a
twenty pounds OF SW
trimming out beets....... .............-. 3W
Hoeing same twice 4 w
Cultivating same with horse cultivator.. 80
Harvesting. g. . o.
Total cost per acre. 10
These figures refer to the farmer
who raises but a small acreage and
does it with his regular help. MIR.
Leavitt gave the following as the cost
of raising beets on q larger scale:
Flowing ten to twelve inches deep. ......s 2 10
Narrowing and rolling twice............. lo0
Twenty hounds OF seed so
Thinning out beets 500
Hoeing same twice "
Cultivating same with horse cultivator.. go
Total cost per acre 80 Is
To which must be added 81 per ten
for harvesting and delivering the beets
at the factory.
1t will thus be seen that the work Of
hoeing and thinning the beets cost
more on a larger scale than on Il small
me This true for the reason that the
large planter must procure his lahorers
By the cay and transport the woIkmen
from the city the beet fields and return
every morning and evening.
The prices on the whole will not
vary any in an ordinary season or ut
any locality in this state where beets
can be raised at all. And yet while a
comparison will show a neat profit,
many farmers claim their experience
to have been an expensive one. and be-
lieving that they had paid for their
whistle on n occasion, refused TO
venture a second time. But the higher
rate now paid for beets is having its
effect.
The Norfolk, Neb., factory, owned
and operated by the same company,
was built in 1891. 1t is well KIN jwn
that the farmers in the vicinity of a
factory have been steadily increasing
the acreage year by year. There is
no material difference in the soil and
the bee:s ere Of no better quality, but
they take hold of the new industry
more energetically and intelligently.
II is believed that in 1895 the farmers
in the vicinity will furnish the factory
with all the beets that can be used.
The effect the new industry has on
agricultural conditions is, as u matter
of course, Of the greater Importance.
But a few figures in regard to the fac
tory will no doubt be OF interest.
Results ut the Factories.
The Grand Island factory turned out
in 1892, the first season, 1868 pounds
of sugar; in 1891. l.tlS.600 pounds; in
1852, 2,l0l 600 pounds: in 1893, 1885,
800 pounds. There has thus been q de-
crease this year of PAS, 100 pounds Of
sugar, owing, as intimated, to the am
tipathy of the farmers toward the in
dustry. The Norfolk fa,tory, on the
other hand, has steadily increased its
output and will almost treble the FRO
duct OF the mother plant this year.
The former has the advantage Of the
StefTea process Of extracting sugar
from syrup and works up some Of the
syrup at the Grand Island factory.
This year it will turn out almost AGO.
600 pounds.
The Oxrard Company received in
addition to the market price for sugar
the following bounties: In 1890 the
state bounty Of l cent per pound, in
1891 and 1892 the national bounty Of 2
c,nts per pound, and in lt9l Uncle Sam
will pay the same rate. The aid re-
ceived from the governm emit is, there
fore, for the Grand Island factory
alone, 1853 from the State of Nebras-
ka in 1890; 2 ,372 in 1891 from Uncle
Sam; 81, 202 in 1892 from Uncle Sam,
and for the Grand Island campaign Of
lss 3 the company will receive $50, 71a.
It will also receive, for the factory At