Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-08
SUGAR BETS.
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his county to raise this year their fair
and definite apportionment of beets.
The time is short. but Mr.. Emery said
there would be no trouble getting the
factories built in time for this years
crop OF beets If the seed was secured in
time. To this end, 400 tons of seed had
been arranged for in Germany, and is
ready to be shipped to this country.
It will reach here in twenty-five days
from the time it is ordered shipped.
If the contracts for raising beets are
all in in two weeks, it will be time
enough to get the seed here for tLis
years planting. All contracts of
course would depend ON the building of
the factories. He had no doubt it
would be possible to get contracts for
100, 900 acres of beets In the state. One
county has already agreed to take 600
acres.
Mr.. Feyhrman, manager OF the Neb.
factories, said he had come to Des
Moines to tell what the sugar beet
could do for Iowa. It has made states
in France and Germany rich, and in
Neb. it has done much. He read sta
tistics prepared by the chemist OF the
Norfolk factory. showing the value OF
the product there. One farmer raised
eighty acres Of beets, sold 200 tons OF
the product receiving $4,000, and a
profit of $2,365, net. The total cost OF
raising the $4,000 worth of beets was
So, 7l5. Another farmer raised on eighty
acres $50 tons of beets, his net profit
being 81. 354. A third, one of the larg-
est beet raisers. cultivated 445 acres OF
them, sold 1906 tons, and cleared SILL
965 profit in one year. All cleared from
$25 to sos per acre.
Prof. Curtis Of the agricultural col.
lege had been conducting experiments
in beet culture since 1891. A beet crop
in lows he regarded as at least as GER
| tain as one of corn, probably more so,
| for it is not SO much affected by drOuth
He read from the bulletin of 1891, show
| ing that analyses OF 500 samples, raised
| in about half the counties of the state.
| indicated that there was sufficient
sugar in beets grown in Iowa soil to en-
courage the industry. They ran from
5 to 10 per cent Of sugar. The wide
variation In the amount OF sugar was
due, not to the differences in the soil,
| but to the fact that the raisers were
not experts, and raised the beets by
different methods; many of them did
not employ the proper plan, and pro-
| duced poorer results. Last year was
the poorest yet for beet culture, be-
| cause OF the excess of moisture late in
the season, .yet the beets grown at
Ames showed II per cent sugar. II
was formerly believed that Iowa was
not adapted to the culture of beets for
sugar. FOURTH OF the sugar used in
this country is from beets, and nine.
tenths Of all that is used is imported
Germany pay bounty for the produc
ton Of sugar.
| For great country like the United
States to yearly send away millions O
dollars to pay for imported sugar, wher
it has resources sufficient to produce
not only every pound required fol
domestic use, but also surplus for Elk
port, is an anomaly. The sugar
schedule OF the Dingley bill is SO fran
ed as to build up the beet sugar in
dustry, without giving direct bounty
to the manufacturers of beet sugar
This schedule ought to be especial.
popular in western states like Kansas
Nebraska and South Dakota which ar
we'll adapted to the growth OF tn
sugar beet, especially II 1t operates a
Chairman Dingley figures. Alread..
as near home AZ Yankton there is
lively hope Tor beet sugar factory
perfectly feasible ind lstry for SOutl
| Dakota and one which contains tn