Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-10
Beet Sugar Notes.

A beet sugar promotion company
has been organized at st. Clair.
Capitalists are hard at work prepar-
ing 10 establish beet sugar factory at
Flint
The Howell Condensed Milk Com
pany use more sugar i'll year than the
Bay City sugar factory makes.
Subscriptions are now being secured
at Grand Rapids for the $500, 900 capital
stock of a company which is TO be or
ganized TO erect beet sugar factory in
the second city.
Saginaw has the satisfaction at
least of having expended $1,000 III dem.
onstrating the capabilities OF the soil of
the Saginaw valley for the benefit of
Gratiot, Bay and Tuscola counties
Saginaw Courier Herald.
A farmer correspondent who takes a
roseate view Of life writes Il see that
farms in Bay county have taken a big
Jump in prices and buyers are plenty,
caused by the sugar beet craze. We'll,
that is a. il should be. Give the farmer
Il chance and all other trades will be
better patronized The plant at Alma.
in my opinion, will be success, and
will give 10 the farmers as much encour-
agement as they have in Bay county,
for there is no better land anywhere
than in Gratiot county. Emerson, and
presume other towns, has tested the
sugar beet and found il 60 test A /. In
a short time We will get our sugar in
Alma, our coal in Ithaca, and be sweet,
warm and happy. "-Gratiot County
News
The New Y ork Mail and Express says:
The combination of interests in the
culture of beet sugar is announced in
detail just at the time when the
Prussian diet and the Prussian minis
ter Of agriculture have expressed alarm
ut the growth of this industry in the
United States, and the threatened loss
of this market TO German sugar. The
formation of the American Beet Sugar
company with capital of $4,000, 900.
the acquisition of several plants, and
the purchase of thousands of acres of
land can only mean that the scientific
economy and profit of beet sugar cul-
ture have been so clearly demonstrated
Us 10 attract that large investment OF
capital which is essential 10 i(s success
upon any large scale This organiza-
ito is likely TO renew the alarm OF
German legislators and cause a radical
reduction in the excise tax on sugar in
that country, 80 as 10 encourage its
domestic consumption"
There has been an abundance of
earnest effort put forth 70 get "a beet
sugar factory located at Mt. Pleasant,
but the prospects at this writing, that
one will be established this year are not
very flattering. The chances are that
we entered the race just little late for
this year, hut early for next, as the
work that has been done will not be
lost, but count on another season. II
is no easy matter to get a half million
OF capital interested in any sort of
project Yet tse attempt has not been
abandoned and The Democrat has no
authority to say it will not be done.
A.. In the meantime Bay City is
building the second large factory.
Alma will have factory, one will be
built at Rochester, another at Caro-.
The factories at Bay City and Alma will
take every beet that can be raised in
this county To thoroughly test the
matter of raising, every farmer i'll this
county should raise ~ least one acre a.
a test keeping strict account, and be
able 10 tell this fan 10 dot what the
profit is However, we hope TO state in
the next issue that our committee has
struck lead and that the factory will
be built this season Mt Pleasant
Democrat