The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1898-02-15


interesting facts in reply to the late
attack upon the beet sugar industry
of America IN an article BY Edward +
Atkins, OF Boston, ia the Forum. For
the year 1896 the record OF the beet
sugar mandatory at Watsonville, Cal,
show cd that the average yield OF beets
was IA 06 gro tons per acre, producing
an average Of 3,545 pounds Of sugar
The farmer received $4 PER ton for the
bee.s, or 500 per acre.
Here comes in valuable comparison
of the results TO the farmer in the cult
walton OF sugar beets and Of wheat. Mr..
Glen finds that with the present duty
upon imported raw sugar, 1t cannot be
Jaid down ir New York or San Francisco,
duty paid, at less than three and one
halt cents per pound. Therefore, to pay
for the sugar product of the average acre
OF beets will require 1924, or 165 bushels
OF wheat at scventy-ive cents per bush
ell, or the product of eight and onc-fourth
acres of land at twenty bushels per
acre.
Allowing that the average per acre OF
good land is twelve and onehalf tons of
beets, yielding 5000 pounds OF sugar
this gives the farmer $50 per acre, Will !.
the refined sugar at three and one-half
cents per pound gives the retiner $105
per acre, or margin OF sos for his
service in converting an acre OF beets in
to refined sugar. With an average OF
thirteen bushels OF wheat to the acre IN
the United States for the past seven
years, and an average price OF SIXTY
cents per br shell, the farmer has realize
but 81 80 per acre IS the gross results o.
wheat growing. lie must use more~han
six acres OF his land to produce ths
amount that he can realize for one acre
of beets.
As regards the fina ncal results OF the
beet sugar industry to the entire country
the demonstration which Mr.. Glen OBJ
talns from his facts and figures is an
important one. He says:
"We consume 2 900, coo tons of suga
annually. To produce it at 5000 pounds
an acre will require ,3J3,333 acres OF
land OF good quality, well cultivated.
To buy it in Europe in the raw state
and paw duty and freight upon il to New
York will cost $40, 900, 900, or the pro-
duet OF nine and one-third million acres
of wheat at sl5 per acre. All consumer
must pay freight upon imported suga
from tide water, whereas ii produced in
all parts of our country the cost Of dis
tribution will be very much less
''Sugar is one Of the most valuable and
important foods consumed by highly
civilized people. We should not be
dependen. upon any other people for
our supply. Our fruit industry demands
sugar for its promotion; so does our
COHutustu Illik luuustIS. VIC tiS pIO-
ducing nearly all OF the iron, steel, glass,
white lead, pottery. TN plate, rope,
Irvine and machinery we consume. and
shall at at no distant day produce at
least the sugar we are compelled to
import for home consumption
"The beet sugar industry, like that OF
tin plate, has come to stay. Next year
the largest beet sugar mandatory in
the world will he consuming 5000 ton
per day vi California beets. This means
paying the farmer $4,000 per day TO-
beets- II the factory runs 100 days for
the season OF 1898, it means 81 ,44O 900
disbursed to the farmers in II single
locality for sugar beets. The 81 gar beet
industry has passed the experimental
stage When practical sugar producer
and refiner like Claus Spreckels invest .
$4,000. 900 in beet sugar refinery, it is
proof positive that the industry is one OF
great value to the farmer and refner."
II have given Chamberlain's Cough