The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-06-15
Large Areas Are Planted and q
Fine Yield Is Always the
Result.
TRYING TO GET FACTORIES
Many centsrs Of the Sugar Beet Pro.
dueins Districts Have Been for
Years Trying TO Get Cap.
itslists interested.

ment OF agriculture In It's recent re-
port credits Nebraska ms being one OF
the best. II not the best. state In the
union. for growing sugar beets. The re-
port says:
There has been considerable aglta-
ton during the past year tending 10 In
crease the beet sugar industry In the
state OF Nebraska. Next to the one
at Alvarado. Cal. the factory at Grand
Island. Neb.. was the second factory
successfully operated I'm the United
States. Another followed at Norfolk
the next year. Nine years later anoth-
or one was built at Leavitt. near Ames.
on the Union Pacific railroad. about
nfty miles west OF Omaha. This gives
Nebraska fourteen years experience In
beet sugar production. Beets for these
factories are grown I'm districts where
crops are produced by rainfall In the
fourteen years the state has developed
most OF the information covering beet
growing In rainfall districts.
Considerable friction occurred be-
tween the management and the farm
srs growing beets Two or three years
| drought caused poor crops. Then bet
ter seasons. more favorable beet grow
ing. followed. Later came an attack on
the beet crop by disease generally
! dominated beet blight This produced
another poor year for the farmers. All
these things had very great tendency
To discourage the industry In tha state.
/ During all their pioneer experieSce the
| 'actories established In Nebraska
passed through very trying ordeals. IL
became necessary to close down the
factory at Grand Island for a couple OF
campaigns, until these difficulties could
be overcome or adjusted. Beets grown
for this factory were shipped to Nor
folk.
Coupled with the natural difficulties
attending the pioneer experience OF
these factories was the one spoken OF
10 often-general lack OF experience In
growing beets and appreciation of the
benefits OF successfully operated sugar
factory. The obstacles were NO varied
and continued that Il took considerable
time TO institute a fairly favorable nor
NAL condition OF things.
Live Stock Feeding.
During the time stock interests OF
the localities were very much increased
and improved generally. especially
around Norfolk and Grand Island.
Originally the pulp by-product was
thrown away. or deposited out on the
prairies: some OF this same pulp fed
to stock fou- years afterwards. This
act has always been a strong evidence
Of Its keeping qualities. Around Grand
Island at present many thousand head
| % sheep and cattle are fed annually.
| This Is due TO the pulp supply at the
sugar factory. Large feeding and dairy
enterprises sprung up around Norfolk
also due To the same causes.
"All the factories In Nebraska have
been operated through continuously
Improved conditions for the past four
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the last campaign had more and bet
ter beets than any other time In It's
history. Many OF the farmers have
come TO understand the incidental benz
siits OF the sugar Industry. and are
becoming larger and more regular con-
t.ibutors TO the supply OF beeis. They
have noted the Improvement OF their
farms and their increased facilities for
stock raising and cropping generally.
In the western part Of Nebraska
large tracts OF land are coming under
cultivation. stimulated by the introduce
ton OF Irrigation. IL IL found that
beets are well adapted TO the condi-
lions and a most profitable crop. and
they are becoming the leading crop In
two or three counties. The beets have
also been grown under contract and
delivered TO the factories farther east
at Grand Island. Leavitt and Norfolk
As a rule these bcetE are high in sugar
content, the tonnage " larger and they
yield "A larger profit than any other
crop grown In this western section.
They also enter very nicely into rota-
ton with other crops grown there,
principally alfalfa and small grain.
Trying to Get Factories.
THE ccnters surrounded by these
beet districts in the western part OF
the state are North Platte. Culber,Eun
and McCook. More bects are now
grown In Lincoln county. around North
Platte. than In assy OF the counties
having sugar factories. Each of these
places IL earnestly endeavoring To eE-
tablish "a factory.
THE removal Of the plant from Nor
folk to Lamar. Colo, which H. now In
process. has excited considerable dis
cussion throughout the country. Many
seem 10 take IL for granted that the
beet sugar industry In Nebraska Is a
failure Because this factory has been
established about fourteen years and
then moved to another state IL seems
proof positive to many that conditions
In Nebraska will not sustain the sugar
Industry. IL IL were not for the facts
IL might be logical To assume that
tuch In the case.
The department has not been adj
vised as To the real purpose OF the
american Sugar Refining company in
moving Its plant from Norfolk TO La
mar. but II IL understood that Il was
not from failure OF the plant. but that
the move was more In keeping with
the policy the company maintains.
For three years Norfolk has had
good supply OF beets and successful
campaigns. The last was the best In
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