New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-10
BEET SUGAR POSSIBILITIES.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO BE COL
LECTED BY SECRETARY WILSON.
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| Washington May "a map Of the United states
with a broad red stripe running across II from 'e
Atlantic to the Pacific will ornament the walls
OF the office Of the Secretary Of Agriculture ms
| man and particularly this stripe. Will interest es-
pecialv two great classes OF citizens OF the Chted
! States-the farmers and the capitalists
"Having distributed sugar-beet seed TO ABOUT
! twenty thousand farmers. said Secretary WILSON,
81 want to take up the practical end of this SUBJECT
/ and show 10 capitalists well AS to farmers where
! they can afford o make such experiments ana
enter upon such business investments az are likely
! TO be a success financially and otherwise
You still have faith in the beet-susar enterprise
| from a practical standpoint"
| "Tndoubtedly: and 1t Is evident that the people
Of the United States have faith in it, We nave sup
! piled in the last few weeks twenty thousand iarm-
ers of the country with sugarbeet seeds ior eNpei
ment during the coming season Ihey are S"'-
tered through every State north OF the extreme
southern line of States. The people as lar oou'"
as the Carolinas Tennessee and Texas pele'e '''d'
,hav can grow sugar beets successfully and we are
quite willing 10 give them fun opportunity " mani
| the test. II they succeed In extending 'h' ~
sugar territory down to the very line OIL inc e"i
sugar area there ought be no difficulty IN rashs
in the United States all OF the SlWvo"Y pro""'' "a
s,o,r for which we are now going abroad ahnua's'
..The practical business end of this eXperneh, -
! the next thing to be taken UP. we nave s"pp"'"
| people in all parts Of the country WIN sugar De.
| seeds and they now go on with their eApeiF
ments IN growing them. Meantime we shall pesih
our more technical but equally important ihVes"s"
,,ons 70 determine what part OF the country Is moI
likely TO be successful field for operations, pU rn
the actual ct b Ssbes OF grades Of sugar it
money 10 establish sugar factory IL Is not Peot
md trn them into sugar upon his own farm The
| factory must have such expensive machinery anu
be n OF several farms If be nan.
cial success. So the capitalists VINO are M n -, ~
I haaf
il ed 70 all the Information which we can give them
as TO the section or sections OF country dced
andd likely to be most successful in production
ITO this end they ought 10 nave ss pen to Climate
soil transportation, convenences ana o'nsr ,h.s,
ments which enter into ,cb nropo1n 70 under
take then is to put into the hands OF some com,
Petsmdt person ms or Rainfall Character OF and
other matters of this kind IN the various nd
rainfall for term of years can readily be Oh,
taned almost anywhere Samples OF soil can a,so DC
obtained and analysed. Where IT Is pracIcap'e 10
make these analyses at the State experiment sta
tons this will be done where II Is not hSro or suc
other convenient points as may be selected ana
Yo link then that there is capital in the cOun
try ready 10 so into the beet sugar Manufacturing
indSubtedly. and plenty of it, number of fac
tories are already In process of erection and people
with capital are willing ana ready TO ba sa
lions OF the country are best adapted tor prdS'
beet productiOn. i nope 10 nave a III
extending across the map from the Atlantic 10 me
Pacific in comparatively short time. indicating the
practical beet sugar belt or the country III when
Capitalists we'll as farmers may safely enter upon
the work of supplying the people OF the country win
sugar" ,.s A.. ..o..
Your other experiments In behalf or the FARMERS
are making good progress? ,
yes Our first shipment of butter 10 Europe, IN
the experimental forms which are trying 10 utii,
! ize is going forward now. The butter has reached
New York-several tons of it-from the best cream
cries OF the United States and In various forms as to
size OF package; method OF production, sailing.
method OF packing. etc. Every pound or butter
which we are sending Is so recorded that we Know
It's history and will he able 10 Judge by It's rccep-
ticn and popularity what ought 10 be done IN future
shipments. There Is a gap between the point wnere
refrigera tor stop In NewYork and wher" re-
frgeratOr vessels start from New-York for Europe.
! We have nen now In New-York seeing that the
shipments OF butter are not exposed 10 the sun in
their pas from the refrigerator system 10 the
other and have indicated 10 the railroad people the
necessity Of covering the gap In some way which
| feel assured the roads will do. Shipping by Amer
| lean vessels have been able 10 arrange have
refrigerator apartments set aside exclusively for the
butter, so that IL shall not absorb the odors from
meats fruits vegetables which too often in
cuGed In refrigerator apartments In which butter IL
the best products of our best creameres In the best
possible condition. and make market for this very
! important product OF our farmers.
! lone other thing which now doing" said
the Secretary conclusion. relates 20 forest pro-
duct!on. | have turned the attention of the people
who experlmenting 10 determine the qualities
/ OF different woods u what / consider more mme-
diately lmportant--the best method OF making trees
grow where trees do not exist OF furnishing forests
10 those sections Of the country which not thus
supplied by nature which have been deprived Of
them by the timber destruction OF past years"