Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-07
Member Of Iowa Sugar Com
pany Declares Beet Growing
is Assured Success
PERRY STATEMENT is DISPUTED
Farmers in Vicinity of Wavery De-
vote Large Acreage to Culture Of
Beets, Which Profit = Statement
That Soil is Not Adapted Disproven
by the Facts.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Jan. 7.--Opposing the
statement of Perry committee that
beet sugar was not a successful indus
try in Iowa, w. B. Rosevear, the gener-
al manager of the Iowa Sugar COM
pany, which operates big beet sugar
factory at Waverly, has been in Des
Moines two days giving information
concerning the new industry his COM
pany has started. He declared that the
farmers about Waverly were getting so
that the acreage Of sugar beets is
growing and the product is on the in
crease.
"This year we harvested 1900 acres
and secured 1880 tons Of sugar beets
which brought at our factory S. ton.
Next year we have already contracted
for 1000, and expect to have fully
5000 acres devoted to sugar beets next
year. We have just closed our season
and manufactured 700 tons of sugar.
the greater part Of which was sold
right here in Iowa, much Of It pass;
ing thru our Des Moines jobber,, Iowa
Sugar Brokerage company.
The story that Iowa soil Is not
adapted to the sugar beet industry Is
disproven by the fact that the Iowa
Sugar company made thorough inves-
LEGATIONS before it invested 100000 in
the big Waverly plant. 1t was not in
vested without an investigation. Prac-
tically every stockholder is stock
holder in other beet sugar factories,
and they did not invest without know
ing something about what was need
ed. For years northeast Iowa has
been raising beets for the Minnesota
and the Wisconsin factories. The farm
ers We're pleased with the result. and
we expect to develop the industry I'M
til Iowa raises sufficient number of
sugar beets to supply the demand for
sugar in Iowa 1t will take sixteen
such factories as we have in Wayerly.
Today so per cent of the sugar sold
in this state is beet sugar and comes
from the factories of Colorado, Cali
lOTllld anu ttiC MeSlSlIl SScLSS.
1.-THE sugar beet does not take the
life out of the soil. know of one
tract that has been planted for TWEEN
ty-fiye years consecutively in sugar
beets and the crop last year was as
great as the first. There is nothing
drawn intosa sugar beet which would
vitiate anyssoil. 1t is true we, suggest
rotation OF crops but 1t Is only be-
cause 1t eifiehes the soil6t have an
other kind of crop on alternate years.
Labor can be secured. We furnish
a whole family to farmers who will
contract for twenty acres Of beets dur
ing a season. And they are available
for other kinds of work. In the fac
tory where the season of operation
lasts for about 100 days, day and nigh,
the help, is to a large extent unskilled
and draws upon the idle population Of
a town in October and November, a
time when the trades, are dull and
men are idle We employ 200 men and
have capacity of 5000 tons q sugar
season. We draw on farmers from
Fort Dodge east to the river and from
Usage on the north to West Liberty on
the south. This year, because of wet
weather between July 5 and July II,
the crop was not as paying as any
other growth under like conditions.
Our farmers are contracting year af-
ter year, and we have no doubt about
the success of the sugar beet industry
in Iowa. Every claim which the Perry
committee makes Is disproved by the
reports issued by the agricultural re-.
norts at WASHINGTON.
Yofltsoi zaydg,q, KIT SaOa..j c en- NC
An organization of the school off,
Gals turnout the state into one or
ganization, based upon the action Of
the Pottawattamie county boards a few
weeks ago, is now projected thruout
Iowa. A movement has taken root at
Garner, where State Superintendent
Riggs is today In attendance at q
meeting for the purpose of getting the
school directors, school treasurers and
other such officials interested in the
carrying on of schools in a systematic
manner. Mr. Riggs will make an adj
dress there and will discuss school af-
fairs. He will attend other meetings
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