Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-01

wv TINS year than there were last
| year, when the total was ap-
proximately 1900 acres. This Is
because many Of the men who would like
to grow sugar beets are unable to find
market for them, either at home or in the
! United States. The farmers throughout
this section of the province who raised
beets last year almost without exception
round the crop a very profitable one, the
yield running from ten to twenty tons per
acre, often netting the farmer from $50 to
$50 per acre clear profit. The beet sugar
factories at Wallaceburg and Berlin, the
only sugar factories in the province which
operated last season are both contracting
for slightly increased acreage this year
but as they had all they could handle last
year Will not be able to furnish a market
Tor more than two-thirds of the acreage
that could easily be contracted for this
| season.
The Marine City (AIich) sugar factory,
winch last year was a heavy purchaser OF
Ontario beets, has fallen into financial ar
hculties and will not operate this season.
IL made quite a number OF contracts for
beet acreage in the Chatham district last
fall and many OF the farmers with whom
these contracts were made, have been I'M
able to find another market, and will plant
tobacco instead OF beets. The Wharton
sugar factory, which was idle last year,
II Is definitely announced, will stand idle
again this year, the litigation in which It
Is involved having been settled too late
to permit OF contracts for a crop for this
season being made The keystone Com
pany. at Whitby. on Lake Ontario has
contracts for some 1000 acres of sugar
beets but will probably have TO find an
export market. and II Is claimed that the
duty or 81 a ton on beets going into the
United States Is practically prohibtivs.
Negotiations for the establishment Of beet
sugar factories at Chatham and Dresden
are we'll under way and promise to be
successful but 1t Is now too late for them
to secure crops for run this season.
A report Just issued by the Hon. sydney
Fisher, Minister Of Agriculture OF the Do
minion government, gives the following
facts regarding maple sugar
The sugar making season is now over.
and while this province (Quebec) was not
quite up to that of previous years, the
season was a fairly good one ana IN the
other three sugar making provinces was
about up to the usual. Sugar ana syrup
are made In four provinces-Ontario. que
bee. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
and enormous quantities are turned out
In 1901 the product amounted to li,Oi,Sz0
pounds the money value OF which was
s. $50. 49,. Canada supplies over three
sevenths of the output OF the maple sugar
and syrup OF the world, and is capable OF
furnishing six times the quantity OF sugar
and syrup she does II the owners or ne
naples would Aush the work a they could
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec am
Eastern Ontario mark the nortnern ana
western boundary or limits Of The sugar
mamie 1t extends into Vermont New
iIsnnshlre Pennsylvania, New York and
Onto in considerable quantities and great
AL ~ maple products are put out there.
The sugar maple does not grow In Europe
lent an arboretums The output OF 1906
wu almost equal that OF 1901, the hes; au-
,haritias say, but the season having Just
o,osad no ofncial figures are yet Issued.
,syv wears ago the Department Of state
caused an investigation to be made touch
irg the production OF sugar OF milk In
SII,s5,,zorland. with view to the introduce
~, - mat industry In the United States.
~, reformation required was rather hard
ohtaIn on account OF the care with
s,,,tch SWISS dairymen guard the secret Of
avtracting sugar from the whey which Is
"a byLproduct OF their cheese factories.
Anerican competition has done them
- ,,t,Is harm as by the partial transmits
a. - -, our country OF the immensely more
sIIl', ~ condensed milk industry.
a natriotic swiss, living in America. now
,,.o-oses slightly TO indemnify his native
~, hsve been from time 10 time trans
Ia sIl1e 80 the United States by sending 800
80, ,naule trees 10 form an experimental
9lant.tIon IN the Canton Of Baseland.
49, vo,lnE trees arrived last June IN Dad
Iiost.,v on account of delay and neglect
sNHHWN Wngr
49, 6,sd What are left seem TO be doing
III md in the course Of fifteen or twenty
Years are expected to furnish a trihing re
10 Srou tho burden Of the bill for sugar
- iuxe that for coal. iron and cereals,
Weighs heavily on the finances Of the cley-
'-ss, and most successful industrial people
Of Europe. 49, . 1900, 49,,
Tho soU Of continental Europe should nOt
nroa,,ce the sugar maple. Its near rela-
non. the feld maple (Acer campesIris), 10
a very common tree, while there are no
more popular shade trees than the syca-
more (Acer pseudoplatanus) and the point
ed leaf maple CAcer platanoides), which
most nearly resembles our red or swamp
maple II has even been suggested that
the tree last mentioned be also introduced
to heighten, If possible. the already far
famed autumn scenery OF the country, For
he leaves OF the several native species.
L.autiful as they are. never display quite
the vivid colors OF our red maple