The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17


teniDg of stock. Throughout Nebrss-
ka he is known as "Alfalfa" Payne.
Most revolutionzing of all vegeta-
bles ever put into American soil h as
been the sugar beet. 1t has social
and industrial importance hardly to
te Ieckoned oy one who has not made
its acquaintance, because Of it's insist.
ent demand for the settlement of fami-
lies upon the land. The beet eugar
factory must have . regular and per-
manent source OF supply. This is
only TO De secured By putting upon
the land permanent residents, poor
men with families, who are willing to
make beet raising business. 1t is o
business in which the family man is
at an advantage, because the labor Of
children is profitable in the beet field, ,
Dor is it Injurious to the child's
health, like labor in the industrial
world.
In response to this powerful demand
for the planting Of families on the
soil, the corporations which own the
great sugar beet ranches and factories
have exerted themselves to the utmost
to secure steady, bona fde settlers.
They have had to give them advan-
tageous leases with possibilities of
tiaal ownership, and steady market
Tor their products. 1n addition, su-
gar beet ranch is usually a great stock
farm as well, cattle or sheep being fat
tened from the residum of pulp from
the sugar factory.
That is how the villages have grown
up on the corporation ranches. Some
of them have two school. houses filed
with the children Of employees and
tenants alone. Four or FIVE others
near the ranch will receive scattering
delegations from the youngsters living
on the edge of the big farm.
II the manager has wife and chill
dren, they are probably all in the cor
poration, and discuss the ever excit-
ing subject Of dividends as eagerly
and continuously as the men. The
wife will have ten or twelve acres of
strawberries and raspberries in her
kitchen garden, and make $500 an
acre from her awberries the second
season, and as much from her rasp.
berries the third. AS the children
grow older they take part Of her berry
patch off her hands, and send their
own fruit to market. Scientific farm
ing demands just as much knowledge
of marketing as Of farming. 1t is not
trade, but business.
That same eastern visitor will ind
the corporation ranohman living in
handsome modern dwelling, through
whose pipes the ubiquitous N ebraska
windmill pumps constant water sup-
ply; in whose cellar it's own gas ma
chine furnishes lighting facilities.
He will find up to date traps and good
horses in the stable, perhaps a hand
some brake. But, if he is lucky, he
will have chance to ride off on horse.
back with the manager and his family
to the spring windup, where he can
see che whole process Of rounding up
spd branding cattle, or watch the
hsrsp breakers with their task of
breaking three Or four hundred wild
Tqnge horses,
The wide, rolling, Nebraska lana: =,
scape, so monotonods at fret, gfows
on one. Flowers sweep arouHd In sush
endless lsagues--a very paeau Of
spring. At night, DO the iheh taik, or
sing, or smoke. around the campfire;
the wild cattle some. AS near as they
dare and watch them out Of the dark.
There is such measureless space, such
measureiess quiet, such bouudless
ozone, that it all sinks softly down
and rests the city raoked nerves.
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