Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-13
nEmrs Still shy oN suGAu.
SccrcturN Hamilton Talks of the Com
hltInn OF the Isni lrnn.

3ecrcturN unmittun Talks of the Com
ditiun OF the iSD5 Crop.
Secretary Hamilton OF the OXnlrd Beet
Sugar company. talking Of the situation I'm
Nebraska az regards the sugar beet crop Of
the present season arl the expressed dissat-
i]sfactioa Of the farmers, said:
Where farmers do not understand the
c,tua'.on there is dissatisfaction and unqucs-
]tionaDiy a great deal Of disappointment, not
only Of b ct producers, but ourselves for
th.a is tho first year since locating our fac
tories IN Nebraska that we have had promise
Of even a fair run at either one of our plants.
| have read the latter from James Grim
of Fremont, in which he states. among other
things, that We have too large a crop of
be.tI and more than the factories can work.
iil' o,atcmsnts are untrue. Sc far as our
having too many heets is concerned, | will
say that the largest estimate that | have
heard Of is a crop Of $4,000 tons in this state.
Taa factories have already worked up close
to $4,000 tons. and arr s'icing each and every
day about 800 tons, so that, even IL this So
600 tons estimate Is correct, We have only a
little over seventy days run ahead of lis.
while We should have a run at each factory
OF i've or six months. We have only about
two days supply at Grand Island, and about
twelve days supply at Norfolk. Grand Isl
and has once been obliged to shut down, a
very expensive operation, simply waiting for
beets ripe enough to work,
THE farmers have a chemist making their
own testh They always should have. Our
companies have urged that they should have
their own chemist ever since we have been
located in Nebraska. \ few weeks ago the
farmers requested Governor Holcomb to nd
a chemist to Norfolk, which he heartily APP
proved Of. Ths governor secured the serv-
ices Of Prof. Nicholson of the Lincoln uni
v-rsity. IL visited Norfolk, was met by the
farmers, took samples from their fields, an
alyZsd tham, ard found that they were all
just as We had stated. He examined our
polariscOpe, found its reading correct. and
the farmers who were with him expressed
themselves as absolutely satisfied. We have
given over to the farmers the use Of cur beet
laboratory at Norfolk. They have their own
chemist ard their own committee of farmers
always with him. They take their own sam
pies from the carts and cars, see the weigh
ing and taring done, and, in a word, we ofar
them every facility to carry on th5ir work.
We have urged the same method being
adopted at Grand Island. but thus far with
out success. Besides this, the state has its
own inspector and weigh +, who sees all
b5ats weighed and tared. The railroads also
sec every car weighed, so you can judge for
yourself what possibility there is in wrong
tests or weights being made, and how alb
surdly ridiculous any statements are to the
effect that we could favor any special parties.
We have several thousand farmers growing
bcCts for us. Their samples come in with
simply a contract numb-r, ana It would be
u Xt to an impOssibility to make a wrong
test. there beng eight hen in our beet lab
oratOry, none of them knowing the number
Of any one mans contract.
TERMS OF H CONTRACT.
Every farmer who plants beets has a CON
tract, signed by us, whereby we agree to
take every ton Of that party's beets. pro-
ytded they do not run blow u per cent
/ -1ln1r nine az t.. sttHt ~. - on
so that every grower Of beets knows abso-
lu,ely that he can make us take the beets
whether we wanted to or not, and We want
them so much that we have had several men
travelling among the beet fields to ascertain
where we can get bests that are sufficiently
ripe to work up.
II recognize there is disappointment. but
1t is one Of those things that cannot be
avoided. 1t has occurred in Europe. and |
understand there are thousands Of acres of
beets in France this year Of such poor quail
lEy that they cannot be worked. | cannot ac-
count for the poor quality of the beets this
ycar satisfactorily to myself. Mr.. Weitzer,
cur Agricultural, expected we were going to
have rich beets, and states that there are sew
eral causes that may explain why the bppts
are so poor: First: We have had no rain
in this country for several years past, max
ing the subsoil excessively dry: early planted
bsets, therefore, had to practically fight for
an existence, and when they got rain in
'N'sF SA'' wv iufaAA1 ilS ma DbcFAbl
account for the fact that the late planted
beets, not having to wait 50 long for nourish-
ment, grew more evenly, and have matured
into a fairly good beet.
Secondly, the inch and a half OF rain the
last of September caused most all the beets
to take on a second growth, which is Away
done at the sacrifice of sugar, and again, it
is not at ali improbable that cur land needs
certain phOsphatss or nitrates to make it
what we call natural born beet land II
| this ig the pqnCp IA oar he rapnEIiAl hN hpy-
ing the land from the different locations
a~nHlyzad, and supply the needed fertilizers.
'Beets can be made into sugar that are
below II and so, but at a very much
greater expense, as it is not possible to eX
tract much sugar from them. You must
understand that we do not get u per cent Of
sugar from a II per cent beet, as it depends
upon the purity as to how much sugar can
be extracted and under no circumstance
would it pay to work any beets that were
lower than 10 and 10.
1--WE have sent a notice to every farmer
who has beets of l. and so to send them in
Immediately (lnless they were in silo under
a contract, as We need them, but where his
beets were under - and so he could put
them in silO, and as soon as we had on
Grated all the beets for which we have CON
| tracts we would then take the low beets,
provided they were not under 10 and 20, at
$3.50 per ton, t. o. b., factory. Beets in
Europe this year are very poor, but | believe
a fair average is about 10 per cent saccharine
matter and about So purity. The average in
California thi' year has been about l4l2 per
cent saCcharine matter and 50 purity, and
these California boets have been produced from
the same seed that was planted in Ne
braska.
"A very large portion Of the west and
southwest is adapted to this industry, but it
is new in this country, and we have a great
deal yet to learn hence the more intelligent
farmers are who plant beets, the more rap
idly will we go ahead with the Development
Of an industry that means so much to our
people, and especially those engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits
Valuable Lump of Gold.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-The Bank of Mon
treal of this city has received from Koo-
tenai. British Columbia. the second largest