New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-21

pie, both farmers and prospective manufacturers.
are SO enthusiastic on the subject that FEAR
IS now the matter may bA overdone do not
mean that the legitimate beet-sugar business will
be overdone: that is impossible for A long time 20
come bur the danger lies in people embarking in
the enterprise in sections where we know the beet
cannot be grown probably"
Some sections. then, Of course. have been proved
better adapted than others"
FACTORS N THE PROBLEM
Yes and there are a number Of things 20 be con-
sidered Not only s the character OF the soil an
important factor. but the amount OF rainfall IS
very important The best sol. for the beet Is
comparatively sandy loan. through which the long
tapr0ot can penetrate 70 depth or twelve or four
teen inches: but. no matter how perfect the soil
condition. II there IS too much rainfall the beet Will
make a spongy growth. with a comparatively light
sugar content. while II the season is too dry the
roots Will OF course. be shriveled and small. All
these points have been exemplihed by the hundreds
and Thousands % experiments made last year,
eliminating in tho analyses by this Department and
our experiment stations. our hes, samples OF beets
have come from the West. where irrigation gauge,
exactly the amount Of moisture In The soil"
WHAT IS considered A fair percentage % sugar
NJ. Wilson,"
"Oh. from 2 per cent up The Germans make
their sugar out % beets producing from z 20 70
per cent We consider that beets containing less
than = per cent a. sugar are Improbable ex-
permeuteI with sugar heets FOR six years in Iowa
previous 90 assuming charge of this Department.
ard our average there was = per cent OF sugar.
this without a particle of fertilizer"
"Is the question Of commercial fertilizers going
70 enter into the growth OF beets IN this country"
sugar beets VIII be grown on our lands best
suited FOR them without commercial fert.lizng.
Germany. on tho contrary. must fertil!ze to get
even l. per cent BY rotating our crops our farm
ers can grow beets once In every five or six years
on the same land without expense for fertiza-
ton
The beet. then. does not exhaust the son'"
If the pulp which is left after extracting the
sugar IS fed 20 farm stock and thus returned 70
the soil no element ~ plant food is removed from
the farm because this pulp contains all the nitro
geneous matter ~ the plant. the sugar being pro-
duced from the carbon diox!de Of the atmosphere
and taking TO element OF fertility from the land"
A STEADY INCREASE EXPECTED.
You loo, % see then. the sugar industry go
steadily on from this tine forward
= DO certainly You can say for me that our
sugar Will be produced In the United States by
American farmers This Department has expert
rnented IN thirty o. the forty-fve States OF the
Union during the last year. and viii experiment
In an the States during the coming year 10 ascer-
tain where our farmers can grow sugar. producing
plants u various kinds most proftably. detailed
.he results - rho work already accomplished l.
viii 6- The nost exhaustive treatise on beet and
other susars which has been published In the
had charge ~ The analysis Is now working on
his part Of IT, and il viii show clearly the result
Of our experiments during the last year.
what is the attitude Of the Sugar Trust toward
the 9se.sgg-r INDUSTRY IN re ta,S e0uptry
by refining sugar imported into the United States
cient home factories 20 supply the country with
sugar YOU can SEQ whore the present business OF
me Trust would go ana consequently what It's
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sugar organizations through the country and the
various .oeet-sugar factories combining and form
me Sugar Trust does al present?
The country is TOO large and there too many
places in II where beet sugar factories can be
tahiisheI or short notice ever 20 allow the
ton ~ monopoly "hlch "ould control output
FACTORIES n THE UNITED STATES
what is the number OF factories now in the
United States
Eleven are now IN actual operation. some ten
more are contracted FOR ard in the OF actual
construction. and the question % establishing some
th.rt- or forty rnore Is being actively discussed IN
various sections. II Will take about four hundred
factories ~ m approximate average valuation a
S. $1,000 ~ supply an the sugar consumed In the
"And by the time those four bundled factories
are 10 operation. NJ Secretary. he country Will
have grown 10 SUCH an extent WIN sqen an m
""Possibly not The cost % manufacturing will be
hv that time greatly cheapered. Yankees. when
they undertake business strive constantly 20 i'm
prove methods. AZ FIRST every piece u machinery
used n beet sugar factories VAS imported. now
equipments are not only all of American manu-
facture hut thev show a vast improvement On
foreign machinery
And you md that the capitalists ready 70
contribute their share 20 the success ~ the indus
try''
as ! have said. the difficulty .s In keeping cap
ftal from investing n localities where heefs cannot
he grown with sufficient percentage u saccharne
matter successfully 70 compete w.th more favored
localities. i0r of course unsuccessful investments
in urfaNorah.- localities would have tendency 10
discourage investments ln proper localities. In
M opinion u0 valid objection can he advanced 70
the Industry in this country II only remains 10
establish the necessary cooperation between cap
ifal and labor and the growers ~ beets IN those
10 alities known to be favorable and this co-opera
uol 70 now cordially proceeding"