Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-10-09
4 HUNDRED MILLION OF DOLLARS
Can be Made by Farmers by Printing
Sugar Beets.

rotary Wilson, Of the Department oiI
Agriculture, is confident that the re
suit Of this years experiments with
sugar beets will add 800 per cent toI
the beet-sugar factories Of the coun-
try.
II know Of people who stand
ready said he speaking Of this sub
iect, ito establish twenty beet.s sugar
factories in this country next year.
"That will be a pretty big increase,
will it not, Mr. Secretary.
1T will. We have, perhaps, half
dozen beet-sugar factories 10 the
United States now, all told, so that il
will be an increase Of about 800 per
cent, which | think will be very good
for the first year OF the experiment.
"Your experiments Of this year
have apparently been successful,
them"
Eyes. Beyond question. OF course
our analyses have not progressed sui
fciently yet to show very definitely
what each section has done OF is do
ing, but there is no doubt in my mind
of the entire feasibility and practica-
bility of the production Of all our
sugar in this country. The interest
which the farmers of the country have
developed in beet.raising, the results
Of such analyses as have already been
made of the beets produced this year
and what we know as 10 the results
in former years and as to this year
crop in the sections where beet-grow-
ing has already been developed show
beyond question that it is entirely
practicable for the people ofthis coun-
try to produce their own sugar.
THAT means the retention in the
United States of great deal money
which now goes abroad2"
ayes. A hundred millions is a
good deal Of money, and especially
when it goes out of the country. II
we can distribute among our farmers
the hundred million dollars which we
now send abroad for our sugar it will
be very important thing to them
aud to the country in general. 1t will
be especially so to labor. People talk
about labor ard about doing things
for labor and for the cause OF the
workingman What can be done more
to the advantage of the wofkingman
than to put into his pockets hundred
million dollars which we send out Of
the country every year for single
article? Then add to that the amount
which we send to other parts Of the
world for other classes of farm pro-
ducts which might be kept at home
and the total is something enormous.
the value of the products OF agricul-
ture which are brought into the Unit
ed States and which we might produce
at home if we were to make the proper
effort s, $3.50, 600, 900 per year. Why
OF give that TO our farmers?
"What is being done, Mr.. Secretary,
in the way of learning the result of
this years experiments with the
sugar beet seed which you sent out
last spring2"
ave are gathering the beets pro-
duced from the seeds by sections, and
testing and Analysing them. These
analyses are going on constantly, and
will continue for some weeks or per
perhaps months. 1t is a comparative
" slow process, but one which will
give us a thorough practical and
scientific knowledge of the capabili-
ties of the various sections of the
country for this kind of work, and
while the analyses have not yet prog
ressed very far. enough has been done
to satisfy me that the results Of this
years experiments with sugar beets
are going to be verv satisfactory and
encouraging. l am confident that be-
fore the end of another year we shall
have IS great beet-sugar establish
ments in operation in the United
States, scattered all the way from
New York State TO the Pacific Coast
and producing large quantities object
sugar and opening the way to the
production by our farmers Of at least
large proportion OF the sugar for
which we now send our money
abroad
Treat vour wife saws a philosopher,