The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-10-29
BEETS SENT ON.
Samples of the Sugar Producers go to
the Experiment Station.
Farmers Around Grand Island Salts
fled With the Returns.

The first matter before the board of
trade Monday was a letter from
a Chicago joint committee in the in
terest of having another department
of the government to be called the de-
partmenJ of commerce and industry.
1t was laid upon the table until the
next meeting. -
The resignation of j. A. Lewis as
director, owing to his business being
such that he cannot attend the meet
ings, was received and accepted.
M. B. Haynes reported for the COM
mittee appointed to raise subscrip-
tions to secure the annual meeting of
the State Butter and Cheese Makers
Association, that the committee had
offered the association $50 in money
and the use of a hall, with rooms ad-
Joining for exhibits. The following
reply had been received:
ALBERT LEA, Mimi, Oct, q, 1897.
| M. B. HAYNES, ESQ,
Mankato, MINI.
| DEAh Olh Ill IOply w yOul 1dtOI
of the 14th, will say that 1t was de-
cided by the committee not to hold
our convention in Manka to this sea-
son, but request me to say that we
hope anther year to meet with you,
when we expect to have at least a
two day session.
assure you we fully appreciate
your offer to US, and return to you
heartfelt thanks for same.
Yours very truly,
Fl. E. SCHUKNECHT, Sec'y.
The report was accepted and the
committee discharged,
Jno. G. Noe, for the committee on
securing samples of sugar beets to be
anallzed at the state experimental
station, reported that the committee
had forwarded box containing
twelve samples and had four or five
more small boxes to send before the
end of the week. He said that the
board may be disappointed in the re-
suits, and he wanted to prepare it for
this. Each farmer taking seed had
had impressed upon him the neces.
sity of frequent cultivation of the
beets, as the more the beets are cult.
waited the greater the per cent of sugar
) which they contain. The almost
: universal report made by the farmers
is that they have given the beets two
civilizations. Six or eight CIVILIZATIONS
would be better. The attention OF
capitalists is not likely to be drawn
here until more attention is paid Il
l this matter, unless the soil proves tt
! be so rich as to overcome the lack OF
l cultivation. Seed had been given tt
sixty farmers, but reports had beer
: received from only eighteen.
e Mr.. Noe referred to the interview
with G. II. Piper published in tn
y FREE PRESS one day last week, AMI
G said that Mr.. Piper is off in his opinion
b that sugar beet raising is not a goot
r thing for Minnesota farmers to en-
gage in. Carlos Boynton was at Crane
S Island, Neb., when the farmer
e brought in their beets. The farmer
y all felt good and thought that bee
G raising was profitable, and were salts
II fed with the returns. Mr.. No
thought that the farmers whom MI
}, Piper had met at Norfolk, Neb., wer
those who did not know how to rails
beets and were perhaps being di:
couraged by the company.
Mr.. Piper's interview furnished
}. topic for some further discussion, i
" the main being of the same tenor a
i. Mr.. Noes remarks.
9 The Walnut street sidewalk matte
came up and the usual report wa
N made that the committee had don
nothing. President Shoemaker adde
u DR.. J. w, Andrews to the committee
~ at the suggestion of several members
K after the board had adjourned.