The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-02
NEWS OF THE FARMING WORLD.

Sections Of the Country.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
The Department of Agriculture is
contemplating a good deal of work
during the coming fiscal year which
will result in
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW INDUS
TRIES
land the extension of those now just
begun. These will include the pro
duction of cereals from which maca-
roni can be made, and encouraging
the establishment of factories at
which this product will be produced :;
expanding the rice industry, and
fostering the date palm, and the pro-
duction of tea. Practical tests of
great benefit to the cotton industry
will be made, as we'll as to induce the
production of bulbs such as. .hyacinths
and tulips, most of which are now
imported. The encouragement of
tree planting of all varieties, includ-
ing those which produce nuts, will
be sought after.
Secretary Wilson is an ardent be-
lever in the future production in
the United States of practically
everything that we need. Especially
is he interested in
TION.
"Within ten years, he says, 1.-the
United States will produce all of its
own sugar. may be oversanguine,
but believe my Judgment is correct.
Any one of the States of Illinois, In
diana, Iowa, or Nebraska, could pro
duce from beets all the sugar needed
in the United States. Over forty
factories will be at work this fall,
many with increased capacity. The
principles now applied to this indus
try have heretofore been used in the
production of oil. The juice is got
ten out of the beets by diffusion, and
run in pipes to the central factory.
There is activity in the sugar indus
try from New York to California.
There hus been steady growth in
those sections during the last four
years. But there has been a pause
since the discussion of the Porto
Rican question began. When that
discussion began capital hesitated to
advance money to be invested in the
sugar beet industry IN this country.
There is no doubt about the ability
of our people to make sugar in COM
petition with any other sugar max
ers in the world, that is, as ,on as
we have had time TO apply American
ingenuity in the field and factory
and to utilize the y-produots.
According to the Secretary, most
farmers are
NEGLECTING THE WEALTH THAT LIES
IN THESE BY-PRODUCTs.
The compressed pulp of the sugar
beet, he says, is valuable to the dairy
cow as the entire beet, because the
extraction of the sugar leaves every
thing required by the cow, as it gets
the necessary sugar from folders.
81 expect" he continues, "to see a
! combination of sugar and butter
raising become common on the farms
in the sugar belt. The by-products
will pay all the expense of raising
the crop. These crops easily aver
age twelve tons to the acre in many
States, making sugar beets worth
about $50 an acre. Sugar and but
! ter are composed of carbonaceous
matter, which comes from the atmO-
sphere and does not deplete the soil
of it's plant food, providing the
refuse from the COW stables is re-
| turned to the soil.
GA tremendous impetus would be
given to dairy neighborhood by
each farmer growing enough sugar
beets to give him pulp enough to
feed his dairy COWS. He would then
not be put to the expense of buying
mill feed, oil cake, bran, glucose fac
tory meal, and would thus make the
neighborhood Independent of mills
located long distances away. When
once this combination is brought
about it will continue. The farmer,
by pressing the water out of the
pulp, would be able to pile it up in a
crib as he does oil cake, to be fed to
the dairy COWS in the winter as re-
CURED. The by-products should be-
long to the farmer who grows the
beets. He should sell only the sugar