The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-10

producing as good crops as ever. Bu
they have been carefully ploughed ane
fertilized, and carefully watered."
"Will those people raise beets mex
year who gave contracts last summer tt
the Blackfoot Real Estate company?'
at is my understanding that those
contracts were conditional on the erec
tion of a factory on the west side and the
construction of certain lines of railroad
OF course we shall be glad to honor
those contracts if people wish to grow
beets, but it is optional with them. AT
our older factories we do not need to &c
out soliciting contracts. We simply an.
nounce that we will make contracts on a
certain day, and the farmers come in
When we have contracted for all we can
handle we say so. We build our facto-
ries so we can enlarge them as the busi-
ness grows. We shall enlarge our facto-
ries at Idaho Falls and Sugar City to
| 1900 tons within the next two years or
so. Both of them are working beyond
their capacity now, for the yield is enor-
NOUS Mr.. Austin has land that raised
81 tons per acre this year, and there is
much land that will do as we'll when it
is handled as carefully as this was. 1t
requires several years to learn how to
cultivate the sugar beet, and then too,
each man has to study his own soil and
adapt himself to it. 1t takes several
years for the people at large to learn the
value of the beet crop, When we intro
duced the crop in Utah we had some
very serious troubles to meet, and the
blight eight years ago was a great loss.
People were badly embarrassed fnan-
cially and many were discouraged, but
the big crops they have raised since that
have placed them on a good footing
They have money in bank and look back
on those times as Incidents which it
would have been too bad to give up to.
| suppose the partial failure here this
season leaves many farmers in bad fnan-
cial straits. This is misfortune which
we are obliged to share. The short crop
means big loss to us too. But we can
not help it. We simply have to put up
with it. We are arranging to give the
farmers some relief in the matter of seed.
Those whose crop failed or whose yield
was less than two tons will not be re-
quired to pay for the seed. Those who
got better yield but less than five tons
will only be required to pay half the
seed bill This will relieve the cases of
greatest distress, and the sum total will
make quite an item for one firm to
bear"
"Is there anything especially new eff
fecting the beet sugar industry?'
"Well, we Americans can now manu-
facture all the equipment for sugar
factory. The western states which irri-
gate are making the greatest success in
beets. We have the Great Triune, sun,
soil and water and can regulate the
amount of moisture to be given the
beets. That is the secret of our success
| hardly think the people here realize
what success means in this industry
They would be surprised if they could
visit parts of Utah and Colorado where
this industry is we'll established. If this
crop were allowed to be left off for pc
riod in this locality it would be a great
loss to the locality at large. A loss that
the people could hardly realize till af
terwards. Suppose, for instance that we
had to close this factory for term of
years. We should lose large sum of
money by it every year, but that would
be small compared to what the country
around it would lose. The direct loss to
farmers would be one consideration; the
loss of business would be another; the
loss of immigration and settlement
would be still another, for men looking
for homes and investments would be
disposed to shun locality that had re
corded great failure from which it did
not rally. Think of the conditions pre-
vailing in Kansas in "a and for some
time after that failure! But since that
time Kansas has been redeemed. In
New York the farmers lost their hay
crop for two seasons, but now they have
hay to sell again. Let failures come and
become permanent and they work injury
in many ways, but temporary failures
with abundance following after it does
not stop the natural growth. We are
here to succeed in the sugar business
and we hope the whole population is
alert to the common interest and COM
mon responsibility attaching to success
and failure"
Senator Dubois Will Lecture.