The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-10-13
Washington, Oct. II, 1897

Secretary Wilson, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, is confident that
the result of this years experiments
with sugar beets will add 300 per cent.
to the beet sugar factories Of the
country.
81 know of people who stand ready"
said he, in speaking ON this subject
9 to establish twenty beet-sugar fact
cries in this country next year.
That will be pretty big increase,
will it not, Mr. Secretary Z? "
ct will We have, perhaps, n half
dozen beet sugar factories in the
United States now, all told, so that it
will he an increase of about 300 per
cent :, which | think will be very good
for the first year of the experiment.
" Your experiments of this year have
apparently been successful, then "
q" Yes. Beyond question. OF course
our analyses have not progressed
sufficiently yet to show very definitely
what each section has done or is doing,
but there is no doubt in my mind of
the entire feasibility and practicability
of the production of all our sugar i'll
this country. The interest which
the farmers of the country have de
veloped i'll beet raising, the results OF
such analyses rs have already been
made of the beets produced this year
and what we know rs to the results in
former years and as to this years crop
in the section where beet growing has
already been developed, show beyond
question that it is entirely practicable
for the people of this country to pro
duce their own sugar
That means the retention i'll the
United States of great deal of money
which now goes abroad %
Yes. \ hundred millions is good
deal Of money, and especially when it
goes out of the country. If We can
distribute among our farmers the
hundred million dollars which we now
send abroad for our sugar it will be n
very important thing TO them and to
the country in general. 1t will be
especially SO to labor. People talk
about labor and doing things for
labor and for the cause of the working
man What can be done moreto the
advantage of the nottingham than to
put into his pockets II hundred million
dollars which we send out of the eoun-
try every year for single article Then
add to that the amount which we send
to other parts of the world for other
classes of farm products which might
be kept Mt home and the total is some
thing enormous. The value of the
| products of agriculture which are
| brought into the United States and
which we might produce ut home if we
were to make the proper effort is, in
round numbers, $3.50, 900, 600 per year.
| Why not give that to our farmers
what is being done, Mr.. Secretary,
in the way of learning the result of this
years experiments with the sugar
beet seed which you sent out last
| spring
I've are gathering the beets pro
duced from the seeds by sections and
| States into our experiment stations
and testing and Analysing them.
These analyses are going ON constant
| ly and will continue for some weeks
or perhaps months. 1t is n comparat-
lively slow process, but one which will
give us thorough practical and
scientific knowledge of the capabilities
of the various sections of the country
far this kind of work, and while the
analyses have not yet progressed very
for, enough has been done to satisfy me
that the results of this years experie-
ments with sugar beets are going to
| Ia "ass aot,afoatory and encouraging
| ann confident that before the end o
another year we shall have twenty five
great beet-sugar establishments in
the United States, scattered all the
way from New York State to the
Pacific coast, and producing large
quantities of beet-sugar and opening
the way to the production by oul
farmers of ut least large proper
ton of the sugar for which we now
| send our money abroad -