Arizona republican., 1901-10-12

I experienced experts, would be success | full
 want to aid In bringing .his matter l before our farmers and business men, | in fact before every active man or
 woman in the valley. as fully and ii- | teIligently as possible. It means much
 to the people of the valley-more than
 many of us are able to realize-if we
 can successfully establish beet culture
 in our midst, and the resultant beet
 sugar refinery.
 To aid me. and for the benefit of those who have not met MT. J. c. Han ilton, the vice president of tho Oxnard | Construction company, and the. bus!-
 ness manager of the American Beet l Sugar company, I will quo.e at some | length from an address delivered by
 him at Ontario, Canada, on the occa- | sion of his being called to that pla .e | to advi.e with that people about sugar i beet culture and the manufacture Lt
 beet sugar. Mir. Hamilton says:
 '''The sugar question is one Of vast Importance to a country In which It is
 known that bects Of the right quality
 can be produced In sufficient quant!- | ties at fair price to the agricultural
 classes and to he manufacturers. ! If the tests made here are sufficient then the following from MT. Hamii tons address is equally applicable tC
 our conditions as well as to Canada:
 Granting this to be the case, I may
 state without fear of contradiction that
 there Is no industry that can come to
 d country which means more to all i classes than that of a beet sugar re-
 fnery which produces . standard granulated sugar from beets grown in i the neighborhood of the refinery. Its | benefits perneate ali branches of trade, the coal mine, the coke ovens, the lime stone quarries, the manufactures of
 barrels and bags, the products of lubri- ating oils. the blacksmith shops. the manufactOries of chemicals and chemi- cal instruments. the railroads. the ! laborers. your merchants. and, in fact,
 every ene feels the benefit of an indus try of this kind. and none more than the farmers. There Is no crop that the farmers can produce that will result more lucratively to him than that of raising sugar beets. provided that he does So on the proper soil and in s;n intelligent manner. It is the safess crop he can produce: 1t has less enc mics; can withstand more dry weather; more rain, more frost. and is absolute ly free from speculative influences,
 which attend nearly every other crop
 produced on the farm. Corn. whsat.
 oats, tobacco. cotton. hogs and nearly
 every prduct of the farm Is today un- fortunately controlled by the speculd-
 tive traders in our large cities. so that
 when the crop is either large Or small
 the speculator knows it long before the
 farmer can market his crop. and he
 and not the farmer receives the benefit
 from speculation.
 Tn growing sugar Deets for factory
 this question of speculation is abso-
 
 from the factory a contract to take at specified price all the sugar beets he can raise upon a stated number ,c acres of land, hence the only risk th= farmer takes is to what kind of m agricultural season he will have, ana as the sugar beet grows under the ground. if the farmer will use intelli- gently the proper methods 1t is nearly impossible for him to have a failure of his sugar beet crop, which. when it is ripe, he delivers to the factory, where the beets are tested and he Is paid fo:. them according to their saccbarine contents.
 The price of beets varies according 10 l the locality in which they are grown. In Colorado and Utah the farm l CTS are meeting with immense success ! in raising very heavy tonnags of rich | beets with high purity. In southern | 1OAOTduO year many pro- ! duced as much as thirty tons per acre. ] and their beets running as high as 20 | per cent and over These beets are | raised on land under a perfect system | of irrigation and the countless days Of | beautiful sunshiny weather give the | beet high saccharine content.
 Tt requires four months for the sugar !. beet to mature after the seed is | planted. All of the refneries | that l am connected with furnish the | seed to the farmer that he uses. at cut prices. deducting the cost Of same from the first delivery of the farmers beets. We also have an agricultural depart ment connected with each of our plants which gives to the farmer. free of charge, agricultural advice; selecting and procuring at the lowest cost, tEa most suitable and improved agricu,- tural implements, and. in a word, helps him in every way possible to make a success. realizing that he is practically a partner with the factory. The better the beets produced the better is the sugar. and the more easily and the more economically can it be extracted in starting out to develop this industry the capitalist must rec ognize the importance of paying the farmer a figure for his beets whicn shall make the crop profitable one to raise, and he must be positively sure that the right quality of beet in an abundant quantity can be counted upon, that the factory may have full run.
 The farmer must also recognize that the factory takes a very large risk, fo- while the farmers risk is divided among many, and under ordinary con- ditions cannot prove a failure. tho factory may. on account of poor beets or short run, or a low sugar market.