Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-03
Beet Sugar Notes.

The project of beet sugar factory at
Tawas, has fallen through.
The beet sugar factory in Grand
Rapids has gone a glimering for at least
another year
The Minnesota legislature has passed
a bill over the veto Of the governor max
ing an appropriation for the purpose of
paying bounty upon the production OF
sugar from beets.
The Marshall Chronicle says that IF
all the beet sugar factories are built that
are talked Of. the state Will be overrun.
The Chronicle might ~ well say that the
state is overrun with flour mills and
saw mills Ii all the sugar factories are
built that are talked of and ten times
more, 40 long az weare obliged 10 import
hundreds of thous ands of tons of sugar
il will make no perceptable difference
in the market-so much less TO import
that's all
The problem of labor which is con
fronting those farmers who have con
tracted TO put in sugar beets will not
prove a serious one 70 solve in the opin'
on of a prominent farmer in this vicin-
ity He says that he has already had
inquiry from labor organizations IN De
troit regarding the outlook for work
He thinks that there viii be plenty OF
outside help to supplement what we
have here and that it can be had as it is
needed st Louis Republican Leader
Nearly all localities in the state whore
sugar beet factories have been projected
the present winter have abandoned hope
of obtaining such au industry for the
coming season, aud Isabella county l.
not more fortunate than other places
Benton Harbor, Pontiac, Saginaw, and a
score of other places have failed 70
secure a factory for this year but are
working for one for the cropof 1900 and
this county should have factory capa-
BILE of working up '''"'..0r. US OF
beets per day by thar time, and we can
have il if the matter is pushed from now
OMIT Pleasant Democrat.
The Michigan sugar factory at Bay
City received lis last beets Saturday,
/ Feb Is, from farmers, and within "a
week the factory will have finished its
campaign. 1t started running October
90, and has been in continuous operation
ever since, consuming Bolts tons Of
beets, raised in eighteen counties, aud
manufacturing over 5000 900 pounds Of
sugar. 1t has paid out over $4,000 TO
( farmers for beets, and the next payment,
70 be made on March 10. viii increase
the total 70 about 5lj5, 900 The com
pauy has contracted Tor 1000 acres ui
/ bects for next season. and expects 10
begin the campaign early in September
The pulp from the bcets has nearly all
been carried home for the feeding of live
stock. and not little has been shipped
TO distant places by raIl The work @.
the fnctory now is tho refining Of the
brown sugar that has accumulated dur
ing this campaign.
The Bay City Sugar Growers Associ
alton held its monthly meeting last I'r
day afternoon The pcinripal bu,iues
was the adoption by "a standing vote of
preamble and resolution directed 10 thu
senate and house Of representatives, O..
the state of Michigan The association
earnestly petitions against any chang
in the sugar beet bounty law that viii
tend 70 reduce the demand for sugar
products Of our farms, which demand
enlarges the opportunities Of farmer
who raise other crops, also for the reu.
son that a repeal of said bounty or r..
duction of the same would be "A breach
of the faith pledged 10y the state to the
people engaging in the industry. ard
that it would greatly iniure farmers who
have purchased machinery, prepared
land and incurred expense in reliance on
said bounty, and the consequent growth
and development of the beet sugar in
dustry. We believe that a change ion
/ the bounty law would be "a severe blow
TO our agricultural interests and to an
industry which promises TO be a source
of wealth and prosperity TO the entire
state"