The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-09
| RAILROAD NEWS.
ESanta Fe Is Collecting News
paper Clippings.
Every thing About Sugar Beet
Culture Is Saved.
WILL BE PUBLISHED.
Road to Issue a Book of News
paper Comment.
What f. f. Mehring Reports to
the State Journal.

Chas. L Seagraves, travelling passenger
agent for the Santa Fe, is making col
lection of newspaper clippings about the
sugar beet situation in western Kansas.
After the clippings are compiled they Will
be printed in book form. for the purpose
of advertising western Kansas and east
ern Colorado as a sugar beet country.
The faith which the Santa Fe railroad
has in the sugar beet business is IN
bounded 1t is spending thousands OF dol
lars TO induce eastern people to emigrate
to the beet fields. and help add to the
immense volume of beets which is already
being raised.
In western Kansas the Santa Fe be-
lteves it can afford emigrants as good
an opportunity to raise beets as in Colo
RADIO. The recent excursion of GOO west
ern KanSans to the Rocky Ford beet
sugar mill was a part of the programme
Of education The beet sugar company
has had several representatives in west
Kansas during the past season teach
ing the farmers how to raise sugar Deets
One of these agents. Mr.. F. F. Mehrlng,
has written for the State Journal state
ment in regard to the results of the sea-
sons work He says:
During the past season S,o3s, a pounds
land under cultivation in western Kan
saS- 1 very well pleased with my
beet growers we had to contend with
many disadvantages. We did not get our
crop in soon enough. We were planting
when we should have been thinning The
ground was in bad condition and we had
Next wear We will raise double the
Is not as good for bets as that Of coo
RADIO This soil does not crust like that.
nor take as much horsefesh to tend it.
short time 1 believe that sugar beet
growers will tap the extensive underf1ow
and have as well watered farms as they
have under the irrigation system in Colo
IN Colorado a man would pay 81 900 for
a 25-acre farm Here land can be bought
for IS an acre; He would have plenty
rnent to tap this underfiow of water, and
have water for all time
''Agriculturist for the American Sugar
Beet company, Of Rocky Ford; Colo"
concerning the beet Shipments of western
: localities this year; Garden City.
s.. go Bounds: peerfeid. II cars. 7i6i35
pounds; syria cuse, 4 cars. III, OPS pounds.
Some of the newspaper clippings con-
corning the sugar beet culture are Of
will be of great interest A few of the
hundreds of clippings on file are here
The Bloomington. Ill. Paragraph of
November Is contains communication
mittee Of Quakers which Investigated the
sugar beet business in Colorado Mr..
Panta graph the statement was made that
mysef and some other members Of the
acres Of Colorado land for a Friends col
ony- This is q mistake. We have not
purchased any land yet, but have selected
5000 acres that would recommend for
colony purposes, and not to Friends only !
but to any good temperance people /
am not agent for any land firm and |
nave no financial interest whatever in !
what have done. Our efforts are solely |
for the purpose of encoura ging our peO- |
pie to settle near each other If they go |
to a new country. 1 will gladly give |
such information as can upon applica- |
ton.
The Dodra f~i<xy E,.,,,,t,1;co,, cows.
1t has been demonstrated this season |
that sugar beets can be grown here, and 1
that they contain a high percentage of |
sugar The fact has also been established |
that sugar beets are one of the best |
grown"
The Kearny County Advocate says: |
The beets raised in this county are turn |
ing out fully ten tons to the acre. Next |
than doubled -
The Lakin Investigator says: Twenty |
one cars of sugar beets were shipped |
from Lakin this week.
r ord Is situated in the second bottom of /
the Arkansas .lS valley. and the soil is |
much like that of Garden City. only not |
quite so sandy. We believe that our SOIL /
Is pest for the production of beets and /
requires less labor