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

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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 its introduct;o on. 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 a 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
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 &. F. Saylor, of the United
States department of agriculture:
Such a 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
going to demonstrate a great deal for this
state. l find that they have a factory there
using about $50 tons of beets enough to run a
full g by that season of
this year the planting OF only about 1900
acres. In the future they will require about
5000.
Minnesota baS haan mak;pu Coma vow,
thorough tests for several years of the cap;t-
bility OF the state to raise sugar beetS 81 cess
fully. AS a general statement. ! nu.I say
that these tests have made a good Sl.o', n&s as
compared with the results Obtai ned in Ger
many and France and those places in thiS
country where beets have been worked Into
sugar.
There is no doubt that this locality is in the
belt which has better conditions for raising
sugar than any other part of this country.
There is every reason to believe that the
works these people have started here are the
beginning of an industry in this state that
will some day rival the states other industry.
The people who are doing the pioneer work |
along this line Shoald receive all possible aid, |
announcement and sympathy from the bust !
ness men and farmers; OF the state.
The industry must necessarily start. ham !
pered by the fact that very few are atquainI- |
ed with it. Technical men must be called in
to the business and relied upon to conduct it, |
while the prOprletOrS and others are educated |
by experience. Other institutions of a like |
nature. starting in this StaJp viii be largely
Dy the experience OF this local con |
Germ.
factory to state here that it is
putting out finished product, notwthstand-
ing its newness, that it is tirst-cass in every
respect. as anyone can determine for HIM
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
he most thoroughly educated sugar men in
the country, You might say that he grew up
In a beet sugar factory, and he has been
thoroughly educated since in all the require.
ments OF the business. His father is the
father of the beet sugar industry in America,
md has been running factory at Alvarado,
yal., for thirty years
Mr., Saylor remarked during the interview
has it was a singular fact that the Mime
lpols factory Is the only one Of the eighteen
established and two proposed beet sugar fac
5ories in the country that is situated within
The limites of the isothermal zone which af-
lords the most favorable temperature con-
litionS for the growing of the best quality of
oeets, The experience OF growers in France
md Germany show that an average mean
of 70 degrees during the growing
July and Augustus the most
Mr.. Saylor does not mean by this
hat good sugar beets. cannot be grown in re-
,ions where the temperature is higher or
over, DuC no uoss say tldU EurOpetu eApeFl-
,nce shows that temperature of 70 degrees
is the most favorable.
The secretary Of agriculture directed the
Weather bureau to prepare map showing
The manner in which the temperature lines of
70, 70 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
80 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 /
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 |
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