The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-11-09

| ma. mat the crop VIII yleld a great
err profit Tone year with another) than
aay or potatoes, and will compare fav-
orably in results with hops and fruits.
3rd. That it will increase the value
of all other crops raised upon the farm.
4th. That it will improve the mar.
ket value of all other crops raised upon
the farm.
The sugar beet crop has some al.
vantages possessed by no other crop.
lst. 1t is cash crop, sold at stated
profitable price before it is put in the
ground.
2nd. 1t has home market not sob.
| iect to fluctuations. No worry about
picking, shipping and getting returns.
Ord. No middleman Glands between
the producer and the consumer in this
case.
4th. The crop goes to home manu-
facturer, and the benefits derived from
a great manufacturing industry are
brought home to your doors.
| 5tn. 1t completes with no other crop
raised on the farm. Should it cut down
the acreage of alfalfa or potatoes, the
value of the remaining acres in these
crops would be increased.
To supply the factory will require
10000 tons of bcets. The price is So
per ton delivered at the factory. This
means that 100000 annually will be
distributed to the farmers of the COM
munity for producing this crop. To
manufacture this quantity of beets the
factory will run day and night for 100
days, giving employment to 400 men,
divided into two shifts of 200 men each
These men with their families will add
a permanent population to this valley
of 1900 to $500 people, drawing upon
the various products of the farm for
their support. An experienced and
skillful agriculturist, with a corps of
assistants, will be kept in the field at
the expense of the company to assist
and instruct the farmers in growing the
crop. Farm labor thus becomes cffic-
lent and expert. In communities where
beet sugar factories have been estab.
lished less trouble is experienced by
farmers in securing proper nelp than in
communities devoted to general farm.
ing.
You are asked for no bonus, you as
sumo no risk, you simply agree to raise
crop which we believe, one year with
another, will produce more satisfactory
profits in cash than any other crop pro.
dueed on the farms of the Yakima val
ley. The seed is furnished by the fac
tory at l5c per pound, and from Is to
90 pounds to the acre is planted. and is
paid for when the crop is delivered.
The cost of producing an acre of beets
is about the same as potatoes. The
average production should be 20 tons
per acre. At Rocky Ford Colorado, the
yield ranges from 20 to 35 tons.
The sugar beet crop, with a fixed
price of S. for period of five years and
an average of 20 tons per acre, ill net
the farmers from so to SIS, while the
hay crop, with an uncertain and fuc-
tuating market, nets the farmer from
$50 to $25. The price of potatoes this
year is unusually high. 1t is safe to
say that the net receipts per acre for a
series of years would not exceed $40.
The local papers will publish a series
of articles containing much valuable in
formation regarding the sugar beet in
dustry, written by Mr.. P. j. PREM, the
agriculturist of the company, which you
will find of much interest.
1t is our purpose to complete this cam
vass and secure this acreage as speedily
as possible, for the time is close at
hand when the company must commence
construction work in order to have the
factory ready for the crop of 1905, and
We ask your cooperation and support
Sign a contract for every acre you can
possibly handle. If you haven't the land
and can't raise 40 or so acres, raise 10
acres. This is your opportunity.
II. S. COFFIN.
f. j. WYMAN,
FRANK HORSLEY.
Soliciting Committee Yakima Com