The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-11-14
Have you signed a contract?

fed this winter on pulp at one of the
Colorado beet sugar factories.
The Michigan Chemical Works at Bay
City turns out 1900 gallons of alcohol
daily from beet sugar molasses.
Fifteen thousand acres of sugar
beets have grown this year in Gratiot
county. Still there are some people
who are afraid help cannot be secured
to care for 5000 acres in this county,
The farmers of the county should
realize the importance of signing con-
tracts without delay for beet acreage.
Every person who signed contract
last year ought to be willing to do the
same thing now.
But two beet sugar plants in the entire
county will have greater capacity than
the plant to be built in this city. These
are located at Spreckles and Oxnard,
Cal. The first has capacity of 3, 900 tons
of beets daily and the latter 1900.
The good roads that Owosso city will
have to build leading to the sugar beet
factory, we trust, will inspire other
towns to make like improvements. If
it does it will be another added blessing
to the farmers caused by the building of
the sugar factory.-Corunna Journal.
The engineers of the Michigan Central
and Ann Arbor railroads, Mr.. Taylor,
representing the Kilby Mfg. Co., and
Supt. Kohn of the Sugar Co., were in
the city Saturday to locate the buildings
and sidetracks for the factory. 1t is ex-
pected that the railroads will begin work
at once on the sidetracks.
The Sugar Co. has placed large order
for the very best beet seed which they
could purchase in Germany. 1t is be-
lieved that it will be possible to produce
beets which will test higher percentage
ofsugar from the seed ordered than from
the seed heretofore furnished growers
in this county.
The business men of Corunna who
signed guarantee to procure contracts
for 500 acres of sugar beets after Jan
uary 1st, or TO grow the beets, have
decided to rent land and raise the beets.
The land will be rented at once and put
in shape for early work in the spring.
Ray Cornell, who has had experience in
growing beets, will superintend the work
for them.
The Michigan Sugar Beet says: mich
igan gets another sugar plant to its
already long list and this latter one of
greater capacity than any of the others
started with. The fallacy of building
small capacity houses has been seen and
the latter day houses are being built 500
to 1000 tons capacity. The people of
Owosso are to have big sugar house.
Pittsburg capital will be behind the
scheme and Kilby will be the builder"
Joseph Sugula, of New Haven town
ship, gives his experience in raising
sugar beets as follows: THE first year l
put in one acre and made $50; the second
year three acres and made $16O; the
third year put in fourteen acres and
made $3.50; this year put in thirty acres
and the beets tested fourteen per cent.
Next year l am going to put in forty
acres for the Owosso Sugar Co. / am
well satisfied with the sugar beets.
Every farmer can put in from three to
five acres of beets for the Owosso Sugar
Co."
Chas. Derham, of .Corunna, says: 81
commenced raising beets in 1899, plant
ing acres. The results were so salts
factory that in 1900 planted 10 acres.
In 1901 planted 25 acres; in 1902, GO
acres. For 1908 shall plant at least 200
acres. This is for the reason that l con-
slider sugar beets the most reliable and
most profitable crop that / can plant.
Beets will thrive in drouth or in exces-
sively wet weather. My beets this year
yield an average of 12 tons per acre and
test 10 per cent sugar, which pays SIS. so
per ton or $500 per acre. 1t has never
cost me more than $50 per acre to raise
the beets. There is no other crop that l
can raise that will show any such results
and l have been farming for forty years. "
o. j. Washburn, of Ovid, in speaking
of the special election called for Dec. 1,
to vote upon the sugar factory PROPOSE
tion said that although not personally
interested in the election-he lives over
the line in Clinton county-he was
greatly interested in the factory and
was glad it had located here.
II was in the insurance business, F"
said Mr.. Washburn. "and worked
among the farmers near Alma, and they
all tell the same story about the great
benefits and good profits they received
from raising sugar beets. A clear pro-
fit OF from $50 and up per acre is what
the farmers told me they were making.
One farmer who had an exceptionally
good piece of Land near Alma realized
800 per acre on his three acres"
The Valley Sugar Co.'S new factory,
Carrollton, put in motion about ten
days ago and constructed by the Kilby