Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-05-21
NEW ENGLAND STATES ADAPTED lo
THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.

II ia a somewhat remarkable fact
that in the development of the beet
sugar industry in the United States
during recent years, the adaptaoiiity
of many sections in the New England
States to sugar beet culture has been
overlooked. This is largely due to the
fact that the men most actively en-
gagged in building up the industry
have been, for various reasons, more
interested in the West. Many ex-
neriments have been made in former
wears in the cultivation of sugar oeeos
in New England, and the results nave
been published in the reports ol sno
several Experiment Stations anu -
publications issued by the Uni'eu
states Department of Agriculture
Int for some unaccountable reason
these results have b en- lost slghV VI
until recently, when Mr.. Truman w.
Palmer, Secretary of the American
Beet Sugar Association, called atten-
ton to them in a letter which ne al
dressed TO United States Sena or ia
cob n. GalIinger, Of New Hampshire.
Mr.. Palmer som years ago taoulateo
the results Of sc, 43O analyses made by
the Department of Agriculture ana
the various State Agricultural Exper-
iment stations, and his figures as 10
+bese results may therefore be ac-
canted as correct. In reference to
the tests in sugar beet culture In the
states of New England, Mr.. Palmer
saws, in the letter which is referred TO
above. that, comparing the average
experimental results obtained IN Mas
sachuse It's, New Han pshire and YER
mont with the average experimental
results obtained by the department IN
GOO tests made in the states or Can-
tornia. Colorado and Michigan, which
,ou laad all other states in beet
anoar production, it will be seen that
thew run 4-1O of an ounce higher In
weight of beets, $40 of l per cent
less in sugar, and IA higher in purity
"a result most favorable TO Ne"
England.
..Comparing New Hampshire alone
with the average of California, COLO
RADIO and Michigan, it will he seen tna'
the former exceeds them by elgnt'
tenths of an ounce in the weight OF
beets, by one-half of 1 per cent IL
sngar. and by 29 in coeficient o.
purity.
comparing NV Hampshire witt
anv of the three great sugar states
none exceed New Hampshire IN ton
mage, and only one equals her; Will
none of them are as high in elthe
sugar content or purity"
2 Commenting further on the deslra
bjlity of locating beet sugar factorie
in New England States, Mr FaiIne
says:
..From the sugaxNie wpoint &c seem
remarkable to me that no EFFORT ma
been made toserect factory IN Ne'
Hamnshire. where the condlt1ons ar
ao Favorable. From the economl
viewpoiut. certainly the greatest BOO
that could come to New England woul
he tine advent of sugar beet culture
which greatly adds to the productlV
itv af. the soil for each and all otne
CROPS brown in rotation with oeets.
IT am informed that much or Tn
land in Saxony, Germany, was prac
tically worthless before the advent Q
the beet sugar industry, large por
ton of it being only fit for eheep pas
lures; while today, owing almos
wholly to the direct ana lnolree
effects of sugar-beet Gu tnre, Saxon
isone of the richest agricultural prov
inces in the German empire.
'sIf the tens of thousands OF acres
.ohandoned farms of New England
which are now worth but 80 10 $lo q
acre could be rotated with sugal
heets. the changed agricultural cond
tions which would be brought aoo'
in that section in q few years wou
be astonishing. :. :,
"New England has the soil, it d
the climate, it has the capitai, ~ Il
the people. it has toe home marKe
and there would be practlcaAy
freight charges on It's product. Ii:
the cotton industry goes south .
naonle can be remuneratiVely 81
pIoved in the field and factory, a.
gradually become land owners, on'
condition would surely be improv
instead of injured by the CHANGE:
In anticipation of the po S;s OH
that som., who do not share mis- op
mistic views regarding the adaptao
itv of New England to sugar-oeet CT
ture might refer to the initial fa al ~
to establish the industry III .na' es
o,-ar half century ago, n
Palmer quotes bit OF history
follows;
SIN view of the possibility OF I
sugar beet becoming. the means
the revivifying New England agrlc !.
ture and thereby oontera0irns
phrase. abandoned Ne" Engla
farms allow M in few sentences
call to your mind the truly straI
career Of this lowly European pro
uct in this country, where Tor nan