The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-07-23

beet raising are agreed that IT. is not
so much the soil or the moisture. as il
is the care and cultivation that makes
success in raising sugar-beets. Beets
can be planted thirty days earlier in
the Panhandle district of Texas thar
in either Michigan or Colorado, which
would mean month earlier harvest
ing. In the fall the sugar-beet factory
that runs only sixty days in Michigan,
would run here for nearly four
months. which would be material
saving in the cost of and construction
OF a factory. there is no sheds needed.
70 keep frost out; consequently fig
ure thar a hundred thousand dollars
can I've saved in the building of fac.
tory taking into consideration tina,
fact and there is many advantageous
climatic conditions exist here that is
not TO be found in other sugar-bset
producing states. which is advanta-
geous TO the grower and to the fac
tory. The wisdom! of seriously con-
siderirG this industry is. in my opin-
ion, a matter of commencing to
build a sugar beet factory as near
the center Of the Panhandle district
as possible, AMI have from two 70
three hundred miles of the most
beautiful. fertile, productive country
i'll the United States to draw from.
Conditions are changing very fast
and will change more rapidly when
the people realize that land values
will re enhanced more than five hun
dred per cent i'll the event of this in
dustry being promoted. Many of the
people living in the Panhandle district
OF Texas and owning from one to
twenty-five sections of land, will ask
the question, how is this going to be
done My answer is this TO the man
that owns them. when he says here is
neither men nor money to carry on
this gigantic proposition. There are
men and is plenty of money waiting
for you 70 wake up and commence
operation. The land, the soil. and the
railroad facilities are mere, and bet
Ter than all YOU have the rainfall. and
a sufficient precipitation for moisture
at the RICH, time in the year The
men and the money will come when
you are ready for them. and nothing
less than a full fledged factory in the
city Of Amarillo, or some other con-
venient point in the Panhandle will
bring them. it has been estimated that
We have in the United States 60 sugar
beet factories In operation ut a cost
Of 10000 900 dollars, and it has also
been figured that 800 more is needed
of the average capacity Of the 80 that
We now have in operation. and it may
be worthy of notice that we only
produce one-siXrh of the sugar we
consume in the United States. Did you
ever stop to think that every man,
woman and child in the United States
consume every year OF their
life, at a conservative estimate. mere
than their own weight of sugar;
hence the crying demand for more su-
gar and one more factory in Amarillo
will aid to satisfy some OF this aXor-
bitant demand. 1t used to be that
sugar was only made in the black
mans country under the tropical sun
of southern climes; but the conditions
are fast changing, and the white man
is comins to me Panhandle where
lots OF this sweet sugar will yet be
produced. The beet sugar will yet
supplant the cane sugar. whilst the
average person. no matter how sweet
his tooth may be. cannot designate
the difference between the cane aid
the beet sugar. The manufacture Of
beet sugar is not an experiment. 1t |
in Germany for more than one nun
dred years; 1t is true that many i'm
portalt improvements have been
made in the mechanical devices used
in its manufacture, and ii is today
staple industry in Germany and parts |
Of Sweden, and 1t is also true that all
the Sugar-beet seed used in America |
comes from Germany, and it is so
raised that the farmer in |
America can buy it for ten cents a |
pound and fifteen pounds to the acre |
Is the average amount of seed sown |
by the American farmer. The sugar
beet question is only in its infancy |
and the steer is fast disappearing |
from the plains. The kaffir corn, sor- |
ghum and maize do not pay but will |
in the future, when the farmer learns |
how to raise sugar-beets. Only a |
short time ago there appeared an ar
ticle in the Chicago Record Herald, |
inspired either by malice or total |
Misrepresentation of the facts, from |
the pen OF no less famed writer
than William Curtis who allmdpd |