The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-05

counties of Decatur and Cheyenne
We're taken by the Standard Beet Su-
gar company, of Ames. Neb. These
beets contained at least II per cent of
sugar, and were all used for sugar, as
otherwise the state allows no bounty.
The biggest producers of beets are
i'm Ftnney and kearney counties. The
largest mum Der of producers get their
mail at Garden City, Ford county, but
Deerdeld, Kearney county is on record
with some of the biggest ratsers. The
following are the six leading pro-
ducers:
J. S Freisner. Deerdeld ...... .75S, l57 s2202 25
r.. A. Beckett. Deerfield sos 482 2O2,04
Chas. Carver. Garden City -541 ,9S3 157 43
q j. Isaacs, Deerheld. ..----- $50, 595 154. Il
James Craig. Garden City. .525, 1856 1872 81
John S. Neal Garden CITY, SOS l45. .49
The smallest amount of bounty paid
is 66 cents to William Logan at Lakin.
For the first time the growers viii
fail to receive the 81 Fer ton bounty as.
when bounty al that rate exceeds the
appropriation of $4,000, the law now re-
quires that claimants shall receive and
be paid a pro rata proportion of said
sum" and hence the producers of the
1905 crop viii receive but 58.1 cents per
ton The crop Of 1904 was 6.3I9 tons,
but i'm providing the 5000 appropria-
tiOn for each of the two years Of 1903
and 1904 the legislature specified that
any uneXpended balance from 1903
should be available IN 1904 in addition
to the $1,000 appropriated for that year.
AS the 1903 crop was cut short by a
freeze ia April. there we're only 695
tons delivered to the factory, and con-
sequently the amount available for
bounty in 1904 was S9,305, thus affOrding
the 81 bOunty-the maximum per ton.
There is $4,000 appropriated for bounty
on the crop Of 1906.
Tt will be remembered that in 1904 the
three northwestern counties of Chey-
enne. Rawlins and Decatur surprised
even those most familiar with the
states possibilities by producing, on
first trial, % per cent Of the years
crop. and the largest area and tonnage
that year by any Individual were cred
tied to a Cheyenne county grower Net
uraIly the returns from that section the
following season would be watched for
with special interest After the first
years results proved so satisfactory
an increased area vas thought likely
and it was reported that 400 acres would
be planted, but owing to the failure of
the sugar company to furnish seed
because of a short supply. that furnish
ed was sufficient for the planting Of
only 50 acres. Hail and food destroyed
IA acres of this, and 68 acres was har-
vested. yielding S.44 tons per acre. Too
early planting combined with cold
wet spring accounts for the compare
lively low tonnage. The year before on
115 acres the average yield was 18 tons.
lit may be said in this connection tnaI
the factories insist on furnishing the
seed and otherwise contracts for beets
are not likely to be made by the fac
tories.
The beets in the Arkansas valley in
1905. as in previous years with the
single exception In 1904 of a small
Cowley county, were grown in the
three western counties of Ftnney,
Kearny and Hamilton. but mostly in
the drst two. Prior to 1905 the beets
at rnfr
Ford. Col. but the sugar company at
Holly Col, within a few miles of the
Kansas line, completed its factory in
time for handling the 1905 crop, for
which 1t had contracted. 1t is report
ed that work is well begun on the
factory at Garden City. Kan, which
&c Is expected will be ready for the
Kansas crop of 1906
Owing to lack of authentic infOrma-
tion Of the aggregate acreage in sugar
beets in the Arkansas valley in 1905
no figures of average tonnage on the
whole acreage can be given, but in
few individual cases these statistics are
available, and they may be fairly rep
resentative of the whole. For In
stance, Alex. E. Cross, of Lakin, re-
ports an average yield per acre of 1 2 z
tons; VIM. Logan, Lakin. II sa tons,
and B. A. Bruce, Lakin, tons j. 5.
FrIesner. Of Deerfield. who is credited
with 379 tons, the largest production
of any individual in the year, reports
an average yield per acre of - "a tons,
and r. A. Beckett, Of the same place,
who ranks next in aggregate yield,
harvested 21 acres which averaged
161A tons per acre
With the payment of bounty on the
1905 crop ends the record for a five
year period Of Kansas beet produc-
tion for commercial sugar making. In
this half decade it has been pretty
wen demonstrated that some portions
Of Kansas are admirably adapted to
sugar beets.
In 1901-the first year-the average
profit per acre was reported as S2S.48
while the highest Individual profit per
acre was S48- In 1904. one grower in
RawIins county his first year. report
ed profits of $3.50 per acre In show
ing the increase i'm tonnage it may be
stated that I'm 1901 the average yield
per acre was so tons; in 1902 it was
9.G8 tons-an increase Of over 80 per
sent The 1903 crop was practically a