Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-18
SUGAR BEET QUESTION.
A Test to Be Made Under the Super.
vision of the United States
Government.

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A Washington dispatch to Tuesday,
Globe Democrat says:
This new administration goes a
things as if 1t meant business. 1t hal
taxed hold of the sugar beet question
in earnest. Several weeks ago G. G
Bell, of Boonville, Mo-, called upoI
MI. Mckinley at Canton and present
ed some resolutions urging that 6
thorough Investigation be made of the
possibilities of sugar production from
beets in this country. AT that time
the President-elect spoke encourag-
ingly. He said: eff it is feasible I am
for it. I am in favor OF whatever will
extend our protection and increase the
employment of our people. Come and
see me after I get to Washington"
To-day Mr.. Bell went to the White
House and recalled the Canton visit.
The President said:
81 think as we'll of this now as I did
then. I want you to go at once to
Secretary Wilson and say that I sent
you. Tell him what you have told
me-"
MI. Bell went to the Secretary of
Agriculture, who at once called into
consultation J. Fl. Bingham, of Ohio,
who is to be Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture. AS the result of the con-
ference it was decided to make the de-
sired test during the coming season.
The seed must be planted before the
first of May. The Secretary has is
sued the preliminary orders looking
to the test. He will have prepared
full instructions as to planting, and
will furnish these instructions, with
seed, to at least five farmers in each
county of Missouri. He gave Mr.. Bell
a formal authorization to prepare at
once a list of the Missouri farmers
who wish to cooperate with the de-
partment.
"Kindly send to me-" the letter to
Mr.. Bell reads, cat this Office, a list of
names comprising FIVE farmers in each
county in your State who will be will
ing to plant a small quantity of sugar
beet seed and forward samples of the
result from the crop for analysis"
There are twenty-one states the ag-
ricultural conditions of which class
them as sugar beet states. 1t is prob
able that the investigation may ex-
tend to tests in some of them. Mis-
souri,, however, having taken the in
itiative, will be the first supplied with
the seed and the instructions.
MIR. Bell started homeward on the
first train after the conference at the
department.. He will make up and
forward from Missouri the list of five
or more farmers in each county, and
will try to send it to Secretary Wilson
in the next ten days. He believes that
prompt and energetic action of
the administration means a great deal
Missouri. Before the crop natures
the farmers who have raised beets will
receive instructions where to send the
samples for analysis. Land which
shows capacity to produce beets with
a high per centage of sacharine mat
Ter will take on an additional value at
once. There ID no doubt in Mr.. Bells
mind that the President and Secretary
Wilson mean to give the possibilities
Of sugar production from beets in this
country a most thorough test.
Mr.. Bell requests farmers in Mis-
souri,, who wish to plant a sample lot
Of sugar beets, to send their names
md post-ofiee addresses to him at
and he will sec that they
seed and instructions.
Papers in Missouri in faver of the
will please publish this notice.
Bells address is Hon. @. @. Bell,
3oonville, Cooper County, Mo.