The Lamar register., 1903-01-14

ers of the United States will produce
enough beet sugar to supply the en-
tire demand for local consumption
and have a surplus for export"
said Secretary Wilson yesterday II
expect to live to see homemade beet
sugar selling in our village grocer
les for &c pound, with good prof
it to the farmer who grows the beets,
to the men who own the factories
and the merchants who supply the
market. am firmly convinced that
we will get down to &c sugar and
have all we need of it when the econ
omies have been developed and put
in practice. We are green now; we
are children, mere beginners in the
business, and have great many
things to learn about it, but if we
apply the great American genius to
this thing, the genius that has made
us the foremost producing nation on
earth, we will teach the old world
how to grow a crop of sugar and
make money out of 1t. We have
many advantages over the European
producers, In the old countries Ia
Dor is cheap to be sure, and women
and children work in the fields
alongside cf the men folks, which
our farmers will never permit their
wives and daughters to do, but they
have to pay high rents for their lands
and large sums for fertilizers, while
we have as much free land as any
body can possibly want for century
to come, and will be using the virgin
soil all that time.
Nothing has occurred in Presi-
dent Roosevelt's administration"
continued Secretary Wilson, (which
will lift bis reputation higher or
benefit the American people more
than the irrigation law that was pass
ed by the last congress. And it means
more to the beet sugar industry than
to any other interest. The moment
you build a dam and ditch and
turn the water on the soil on the
desert, sugar beet seed will be plant
ed, because it ,s ready money crop
in the first place and will provide for
the farmers stock, for his horses,
oxen, cattle, sheep and hogs until he
can raise alfalfa and other folders;
and when we get the beet sugar in
dustry fairly going in this country it
will be found that the pulp, the resi-
due of the beet after the juice has
been squeezed out, is very valuable
by. product. Its value is not to be
measured alone by the actual money
received for it, but by the opportuni-
ty and encouragement it offers to
dairying, stock breeding and feeding.
The people of this country have not
yet begun to appreciate the useful
ness of sugar beet pulp. Even the
older factories have not yet been
able to dispose of it at its real value.
The new factories have to pay people
to haul it away, but the farmers are
beginning to use for feeding purposes
and some of the beet sugar compan-
les are buying cattle to fatten them
on it, as distillers do with their re
fuse. Pretty soon stockmen and
dairymen will begin to realize its
value as fodder, and it will prove to
be a valuable by product. I have
sent a man to Germany to study this
matter, and soon expect to have some
reports from him that will be of
great interest to the sugar beet man
ufacturers and the farmers and diary
men who live in the vicinity of the
factories.
"Another very important consider
alton in this connection is the intro
duction of American made machinery
and Implements both to the factory
and in the field. When our people