The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-12-15
Feet sugar.

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The immense benefit to the state Of
Minnesota by reason Of the successful
introduction of the beet sugar industry
cannot now be fully appreciated. The
HERALD knows positively-has had
peculiar opportunities for accurate
knowledge relative to the matter that
Henry Keller is justly entitled to the
credit for it's Introduction. He labor
ed day and night, fighting discourag-
ments, encountering sneers and rising
above difficulties which would have
worn out any man less, enthusiastic,
energetic, and pugnacious. His best
friends-those who knew the wonder
full capacity for work, and the fruitful
res ources of his nature, had little faith
in his ability to succeed. The under
taking on it's face was doomed to fail
ure from the start. That Minnesota
should ever become sugar producing
state seemed as proposterous as that
she might ever be banana or pine
apple producer. The burden was
enormous, but Mr.. Keller has ever
been sanguine and confident. He be-
LEVIED in this enterprise, and did what
no other man in Minnesota would un-
dertake, he made capitalists believe in
it-and half million dollars from
New York men, who are not given to
rainbow chasing, was place at his dis
posal. AS for the rest let the Mime
apolis Journal tell the story in the
words of G. F. Saylor, of the United
States department Of agriculture:
Such development of the beet sugar in
dustry in Minnesota that it will some day
rival the states great flour industry-that
is the prediction made by c. f. SaylOr. special
agent of the department of agriculture, who
has charge of the departments beet sugar in
vestigatiOns throughout the United States.
Mr.. Saylor visited the ST. Louis Park plant
when it was building; this week he has ex-
amined it in operation. When the plant was
yet in embryo Mr.. Saylor knew that the con-
ditions theoretically favored the beet sugar
industry in this part of Minnesota; the plant
in operation convinces him that practice in
this case does not fall short of theory.
At the end of an interesting and instructive
conversation Mr.. Saylor dictated the follow
ing statement:
The beet sugar factory at st. Louis Park is
state. l find that they have factory there
using about $50 tons OF beetS enough to run a
full campaign-meanins by that a season of
this year the planting of only about 1900
acres. In the future they will require about
5000.
Minnesota has been making some very
thorough tests for s. veral years of the capa-
bility of the state to raise sugar beetS cess
fully. AS a general statement, ] nuI say
compared with the results obtained in Ger
many and France and those places in ;hiS
country where beets have been worked ih'o
sugar.
There is no doubt that this locality is in tie |
belt which has better conditions for raising |
sugar than any other part of this country. |
works these people have started here are the |
of an industry in this state that |
will some day rival the state 5 other industry.
The people who are doing the pioneer work
along this line shoaid receive all possible aid.
encouragement ard sympathy from the bust
ness men and ia .mels Of the state.
The industry must necessarily start. ham,
pered by the fact that very few are acquainI-
ed with it. Iecnnic;.l mel must be called in
to the business and relied upon to conduct it,
while the prOprietOrS and others are educated
by experience. Other institutions of like
nature. starting in this st#5v. vii be lurgpIg
oeIeiitcd ny the experience OF this l01al con
Germ.
But it is due to the proprietors of this
factory to state here that it is
putting out a finished product, nOtwithstand-
ing its newness that it is tirst-class in every
self by examining samples of the daily out
put. The concern has the benefit in the per-
son OF Mr.. Dyer, the superintendent. of one OF
the country. You might say that he grew up
N a beet sugar factory. and he has been
thoroughly educated since. in all the require.
'ather of the beet sugar industry in America,
md has been running u factory at Alyarado, |.
Jal.. for thirty years.
Mr.. Saylor remarked during the interview
has it was singular fact that the Mime
.polis factory Is the only one Of the eighteen
established and two proposed beet sugar fac
;ories in the country that is situated within
he limites of the isothermal zone which af-
ords the most favorable temperature con-
litions for the growing of the best quality of
,eets. The experience of growers in France
md Germany show that an average mean
July and Augustus the most
Mr.. Saylor does not mean by this
hat good sugar beets. cannot be grown in re-
.iOuS NIcFe CHc temperature ID VI
over, but he does say that European expert
,nce shows that temperature of 20 degrees
Fahrenheit is the most favorable.
The secretary Of agriculture directed the
Weather bureau to prepare map showing
The manner in which the temperature lines of
%, 20 and II cross the United States, it being
assumed that the most favorable conditions
would be encountered in the territory inclosed
by those lines. The zone through the middle
If which the 70 line runs, which is bounded by
50 and II, is from so to 200 miles wide, and in
some places a little wider. 1t starts in New
York, sweeps across Wisconsin and Michigan,
takes in southeastern Minnesota. the northern
line-that of 69-being twenty-five or thirty |
miles north of Minneapolis. bends back into |
Iowa, then swings into northern Nebraska |
and South Dakota, down through Wyoming |
Observation-Disclosures