The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-10
BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
SECRETARY WILSON PROPOSES
TO ENCOURAGE 1T.
VIII Demonstrate to the Capitalists,
as Well as the Farmers, That This
is Safe and Profitable Industry.

] chicago, May 10.-A special to the
Times-Herald from Washington says:
A map of the United States, with a
broad red strip running across it from
the Atlantic TO the Pacific, will soon
ornament the walls of the secretary
OF agriculture. This map particularly
interests two great classes of citizens
OF the United States-the farmers and
capitalists.
Having distributed sugar beet seed
TO about 100000 farmers said Secre-
tary Wilson, L want TO take up the
practical end of this subject now and
SHOW to the capitalists as we'll as the
FARMERS where they can afford TO make
sucn experiments and enter upon such
business investments as are likely to
ne a success financially and otherwise.
we are going into the sugar business
IN this country in dead earnest"
You still have faith. then. in the
beet sugar enterprise from a practical
standpoint"
Undoubtedly and it is evident that
the people of the United States have
faith in it. We have supplied in the
last few weeks 10000 farmers of the
country with sugar beet seed for ex-
perlments during the coming season.
They are scattered through practically
every state north of the extreme
southern line of states. The people as
lar south as the Carolinas. Tennessee
and Texas believe that they can grow
sugar beets successfully, and we are
quite willing TO give them full oppor-
UNITY TO make that test everywhere
Ii they succeed in extending the beet
sugar territory down to the very line
OF the cane sugar territory there ought
to be no difficulty in producing in the
fad rot
worth OF sugar for which we are now
going abroad every year.
me practical business end of this
experiment. continued Secretary Will
son, is the next thing to be taken up
We have supplied people in all parts
OF the country with sugar beet seed,
and they can now go on with their ex-
periments in growing them Meantime,
we shall begin our more technical but
equally important Investigations to
determine what part of the country is
most likely to be successful field Cor
operations both in the actual growth
OF the beets and the production of the
highest grades of sugar. This is a sub
Ject which the capitalists of the coun-
try especially want to know about 1t
takes money to establish a beet sugar
factory. 1t is not practical for the
farmers who raise few acres of beets
farms The factory must have such
expensive machinery and be operated
upon such large scale as to absorb
the production OF several farms II IL Is
to be a financial success
SO the capitalists who are waiting
to put their money into beet sugar fac
tories are entitled to all the Informal
ton which we can give them as to the
section or sections of country where the
beet sugar is most likely to be success
full in production. To this end they
ought to have the best information
that can be obtained in regard to the
climate, soil, transportation, convent
enceS and other elements which enter
into determination of these questions
The next step which / propose to I'M
dertake then. is to put into the hands
of competent persons the study of
this subject, including climate rainfall.
character of soil and other matters Of
this kind in the various parts of the
various states. In this way, while the
farmers are experimenting. with the
growth of the sugar beets we expect to
be making equally important expert
ments and researches from this stand
point. and by combination of these ex-
periments be able to indicate 10 the
people desiring to invest in the estab-
lishment of sugar factories the loca- |
tons. or the strip of country where |
they are most likely to meet with the !
most success
You think, then, that there is capt. /
tai in the country ready to so into the !
beet sugar manufacturing business
Undoubtedly and plenty of it, A num- =