The record-union., 1899-05-05
Agriculture
and
Horticulture

California and the Pacific Coast
States are noted for their wonderful
productiveness in agricultural and nor
ticultural products. The following
items will be interesting to all who care
to know what is going on in the great
growing regions of the West:
AN ISLAND COLONY.
Santa Barbara Press: If one may be-
lieve street ru1nor which is very UNI
wise thing to do unless there are other
reasons for so doing, Santa, Rosa Island
is about to be sold, subdivided and col
onized Such reports have been heard
for some days, and they We're empha-
sized yesterday upon the departure OF
w. w. Burton, the well known realty
dealer, and l.. A. Hearn, Los Angeles
gentleman, who engaged Captain LARGO
to take them to the island OF Geneva.
AS Mrs Miller, administrative of the
A. P More estate, to whom the prop
erty belongs, and Mr.. Storke, her at
torney, are already on the island,
weight is added to the reports. AS none
of the interested parties are in the city,
it was impossible yesterday to learn
any particulars. Mr.. Burton refused to
discuss the rumors before sailing.
Mr. Hearn is an elderly gentleman
and knows the property well, having
visited the islandi about forty years ago.
AMERICAN BEET SUGAR.
Oxnard Courier: The Courier" has
lust received from the author and pub
Usher a copy of the american Sugar
Industry" 1t is a practical manual
giving results of adj experience in the
United States up to 1899 in the culture
of sugar beet and sugar cane and the
manufacture of sugar therefrom. 1t is
written by Herbert Myrick, editor Of
American Agriculturist,' and Of
Orange Judd Farmer" and also Treas
urer of the American Sugar Growers
Scciety-a recognized authority.
The work is divided into five parts.
First comes a treatise on the economic
aspects of the whole sugar question and
its bearings upon American agriculture.
manufacture, labor and capital. The
author declares that the sugar schedule
of the Dingley tariff has been success
full in promoting domestic sugar pro-
duction. 1t is, however, absolutely es-
sential that the present tariff be con-
tinued against sugar from Porto Rico,
Cuba and the Philippines, as we'll as
IIOIH OlHe1- COunlTieS- IL OOIlSI
promptly declares that this will be done
the author shows that the price of
sugar, already lower than ever before,
will not be advanced, but that the
$100,000,000 annually sent abroad to
pay for imported sugar will soon go
into the pockets of our American farm
ers. Prior to 1899, ten millions of capt.
tai had been invested in the beet-sugar
industry, and millions more will go into
it if there is assurance of the home
market.
Mr.. Myrick maintains that beet
sugar is the only business for the farm
err and investor that is not overdone,
that offers a fair field. Hundreds of
large factories will be required to pro-
duce the sugar now imported, and this
will call for an investment of between
$500, 100000 and S300,O00000 in build
ings. machinery, etc. The author
points out that even if the imperialistic
policy prevails, the tariff should and can
apply equally to colonial as upon for
eign produce, just as England now
does. He speaks strongly against coolie
contract labor in Hawaii and the trop-
les, and enthusiastically advocates es-
tablishing beet sugar factories