The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-20
downright. 1886 J


New York, Sept. l9.-ACCording to IT,
statement Of Gov SilaS V. HolC"nh e.
Nebraska, but 5000. Ooo or 5000 eco
of the 10000 600 acres Of land III that
state are under cultivation. Even OF this
small area, only onc-quar,cr, or 1000 goo
acres, would suffice in an ordinary year,
with the Weld Of hectS tu the acre and
the proportion Of sugar Ia tn" ton az
beciS, which experience has led producers
Ia expect. L. feed all the "a ,ouu.rpG People
of the republic with The more than 5000
OOo. 600 pounds of sugar they consume III
Ii year.
There are Row in this country sugar tect
factories Of varying sizes in Chino am
Alnedo. cal. in Utah and in Virginia,
besides the two pioneer factories in Ne
braska. at Grand Island and at Norfolk.
a thousand factories Ike the Two latter,
each working up the hects from 1000
acres of land, would feed the entire ma
lion, which ut present imports sIN-scNcnths
Of the sugar II eats.
Should il thousand such factories hc huik,
il would hardly he practicable that each
should be worked upon tccts grown on Il
single tract of 1000 acres. ON the con
trary, the ideal ARA ngemcnt Would be that
each factory should stand IN the midst
Of region Of snail farms, ON each of
which=a few acres only should he devoted
IL the culture OF bcctS.
Indeed, as Nebraska sugar hcrts have
heeu raised To the time OF NOR" than
thirty tons to the acre. eNhaustiIy the
land rapidly, and involving great amount
of heavy labor in their handling, there are
few farmers who would be able or willing
10 have very large proportion OF their
holdings in sugar heets. There IL ~ reason
why small beet sugar factories should not
he erected by farming EciEhhorhoods. on
cooperative basis, like many of the
cheese and butter factories of states farther
East, as the process i not one that abs,-
Iutely requires To hc conducted on Il large
scale This plan was fully and fayordhly
discussed AT the last meeting of the Ne
brsSkan Beet Sugar Association, reports III
which. with much other valuable !nfor-
nation. have been kindly placed At nay
disposal by Secretary Mason, Of the assucia-
,inn. and by Gov. Holcomb.
That Nebraska had produced in one year
only one five-huudrcdth part of the nations
sugar that all our beet sugar factories can
refine only about one hundredth part.
doesn't imply small figures. The cane
sugar products of the Southern States. cnor-
NOUS industry of a Centnry's growth as 1t
is only SURPRISES the infant beet sugar crop
by some twelve times.
II the estimated beet sugar crop of this
wear were Ia tc placed III barrels end to
end, il would make line Of iarrels over
125 miles long, That. again. is not bad
for an infant industry. even If the whole |
United States does eat enough barrels Of |
sugar To form four lines Of barrels from |
New York to san Francisco. We make |
nearly seven tines as much beet sugar as |
maple sugar, and more Than fifty times as |
nJu,h hcet sugar rs from sorghum, though |
the latter was first tried long ago.
Beet sugar raising Nehraskans need ~ |
argument L. prov" that Napoleon Bonaparte |
was a great man II was he, who. when |
the continental blockade shut down on the !
sugar impurts of France, threw himself |
with fevcrsh energy into the production |
Of beet sugar. then not commercially praC- |
tiCed anywhere. ANA Sparrti on his Sa wants
and scientists until they produced Il sugar |
as good As the colonial product refined n.
Orleans. II was III; Of this precious STUFF
thai Napoleon proudly put under Il glass
on IA mantcl in his imperial palace. Royaiist
caricatureS Of The times showed the baby
King If Rome making WHY face over
sugar plum made of beet sugar with the
sarcastic caption:
Suck It. little King. Your papa says
it's sugar"
And 50 II was. At any rate, France pro
duccd 5000. 600 pounds in 1876; 5o,0oo.-
600 pounds i'll / S3i; 200 900, nao pounds i'll
1860, and zoe. 900 900 pounds or yearly
her entire supply. in 1895.
Germany. beginning rather later, pro !
duccd in 1895 ] ,475,ooo.ooo pounds of
beet sugar-ahout one-third as much as III"
United States consumes, from all sources.
native and foreign.
This country, as VIII he seen. is already
producing as much beet sugar. after only
eight years effort, as France was doing
twent y-four years after the baby king crit
cised his home made candy in the Royast
prints and the mighty Napoleon pressed its
cause.
To lie entirely accurate. the Nebraska