Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-30
ruE MEET srGAn INDUSTRY.

100000 pounds OF sugar this season. aud Is
/ still grinding away at the rate of zoo sacks
/ per day.
Fairfield Ncws-Herald: Let the farmers
about Fairfield carefully investigate the
, sugar beet problem This years expert
| onCe demonstrates that It is a profitable
I crop TO raise when its manipulation is thor
/ ouEhly understood.
Grand Island Independent: There is some.
/ thing more than the discussion of the sub
/ Ject necessary to erect sugar factories. Ne
/ braskl has the soil and climate, but what
| II needs more now is eastern capital and
/ capitalists confidence
McCook Courier: Think of It, dear read
! era! \ man in Scotland who has S2,5o),o0O
! to invest in beet sugar factory has writ
| ten to Secretary OF state Piper and wants
| to come to Nebraska the worst kind and
| put up big factory provided the bounty
/ law is not repealed-and there are others.
| Again We say, think of 1t.
Nebraska Signal: Nebraska should raise
more sugar bccts and not depend so much on
! corn. We hope to see more farmers try a
/ few acres Of beCts heXt year They will
! ue good for feed in any event and the timc
! will come when those farmers who haven't
! learned how to handle sugar beets will re
gret their lack Of knowledge.
Ke1rpey Hub: There is a proposition to
enact a beet sugar bounty law by the in
| coming Wisconsin legislature. other west
/ orn states are moving on the same line, and
/ this fact affords all the more reason why
/ the Nebraska bounty law should be re
tanned. The tendency is in this direction,
| and by no act of our own should we divert
the industry to other western states,
Hastings Tribune: There are more OPP
| pOrtunitGS for business and farm hus-
| bandry in Nebraska than in any other state
| in the union. Her resources are not de-
| vCloped one-tenth of what they will be in
| time. There is nothing the matter with
| Nebraskas resources If people will develop
! them along the lines most likely to be prof
| table and those most natural.
Galloway Courier: 1t would take twelve
sugar factories like that at Grand Island to
! supply Nebraska alone and from August /,
! 1895, to August L. 1896 the United States
| imported sugar to the value of 100000 900.
! Yet the Omaha World-Herald, the popo-
cratic organ of Nebraska. has already com
! menccd an attack upon the existing sugar
| bounty, and 1t is likely the incoming legis-
! lature will do all it can to cripple the in
! dustry in this state.
Cambridge Kaleidoscope Some of our
popuist editors are demanding the
repeal of the state sugar bounty. The man
uiacture of beet sugar is the most promising
! industry within our borders at the present
time and affords a shining mark for the
! poisoned arrows Of populism. Let the dead
| hand fall upon it and destroy it. Nebraska
! will never be a paradise for these enemies
Of prosperity until it is dead beyond hope
! OF resurrection.
Minden Gazette: The beet sugar industry
is knocking at the doors Of Nebraska for adj
mttance. 1t is bound to come in, and If
the people of the state know a good thinE
when they see it, they will not impede it's
progress, but rather encourage II. Nebra ska
ought to have fifty or sixty sugar factories.
Farmers who have raised bects this year
for the factories which we already have. are
not complaining of 10-cent corn. but are
realizing from $40 to $50 an acre from their
| land. About $500 per day is being paid
out at Norfolk on account of their sugar
factory Suppose we had one doing the
same thing at Minden. Give us more sugar
factories.
Webster County Argus: France has 1,7OO-
600 acres of land devoted to the culture OF
sugar beets while Germany's beet lands
cover an area OF nearly 900 600 acres, says
the Bee. An acre of land planted in sugar
beets yields from ten to twelve tons of
boets and q ton of beets will average 200
pounds, or at least one ton of sugar for
every acre of beGts. With proper encOur-
agcment Nebraska could readily devote
100000 acres to sugar beet culture, and
its sugar crop would be worth 10000 900.
Planted in corn 1000 600 acres, with a yield
of fifty bushels to the acre, and with corn
at % cents a bushel, would only produce
$1g,5Oo 900. At present prices 1,OOOOOO
acres planted in corn would only yield
So, $50 600.
Stanton Picket: The repeal of the state
beet sugar bounty law would mean a re
ductiUn of 81 per ton in the price paid fDi
beets which wouid cause many who are nov.
growing them to withdraw from the indus
try and would have a dcmoraIiZinp effect
llpou The production of sugar in the state
At first Thought when considering the mat
ter il might seem in view of the amount
of bects that can be producel per acre and
considering the price of corn and other
products that there is a good profit st ais
ing beets even at 81 per ton and Dossihly
there would be if the grower was always
SIRE or q rull croD their coming IN to tha
reouire1 test and then was sure of netting
that rroD harvested i'm tiue IN escane the
rros, Rut there 10 a great da,I of hard
and disagraeobIa ,,orl, cnnnectpf Win tboir
culture and cnupIA This fact with tho nm
g.rrtoirtv of n,cotirr tha renuirad tegt and
,.,ooripo tho Grsi rreoline causes reorIe to
rsfmrc fo groy, tben, I,1loss tho nrirc l.,
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