The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-09-20
GREAT VALUE Of SUGAR BEET
Some Additional Facts On In
dustry That Interests
Local People.

~ A-liAa ~ = iie.- Alo IS at the
Waldorf Mr. Palmer is secretary Of
ne United States Beet sugar Industry.
which is an association II Manufacture
erz VINO try 10 get al they can cut Of
The subject, but according 10 Mr.
Palmer. they don't exaast It. If the
American farmer who lives in a dis
: tret where sugar beets could be grown
would SOW erop Of 5eats every fourth
+ year be could double or triple bis usual
crops Of wheat. cats, potatoes or rye
in the other three years, and better has
been done.
Ar. Palmer mas been in most of the
countries where the sugar beet Is made
most 0f and lie has studied he history
Of the beet sugar industry. He says
Napoleon BonapaFte was the sugar
beei's first great bcnefaetor and he
ben nefted the world hy putting up
government factories in France and
masking ,he French farmers grow the
re9,s leT the factories 10 work On.
II vas only IL 1873 thar the first
successful beet sugar fact0ry IN this
+ country was put up. sad Mr. Palmer
ard we csi uos produee loo tors a
seAr mi 1855 Last gear tbs esun-
+ iry taraed CIT $50. COO tons.
The ffst factory Of which there is
+ any record vas pat Up IA Germany in
1901. Then the Germans went 10 sleep
aad Napoleon Bonnparte took ths mat
Ter Up. he sent delegation Of seien-
tiac men over 10 look AZ me German
factory. Sugar was taen costing IS
cents a pound 10 produce md the con-
sumer PAID S. cents pound for it.
Bonaparte 8 commission came back 10
Paris and pat in ten years at expert
mental work before they got to q point
where they saw what they could Go
a'ish the Sugar bset.
But ia taat time the comm .ssion had
made remarkable discovery. Europe
had then reached us lowest stage Of
proIacligity They had been plowing
the soil only three or fouT inches deep,
resting the land every other year. The
French investigators discovered that by
rotating a crop OF sugar beets with or
binary crops, planting the sugar beet
once IN four years. the other crops
were doubled and even quadrupled,
"As soon as the report Of the COM
mission reached Napoleon he appropri-
sted ], Geo, eco francs for the erection
e 1eeI sug Al ffaet5Eiss and the estab-
Isshment Of scientific schools for the
study Of the industry and directed MS
Minister Of the Interior 10 see to It
that the farmers planted 90, 600 acres
ia beeis that year. This was in 1871.
IN 1913 there 34s beet sugar factories
ia France
".Whea Napoleon met MS downfall
the beet sugar industry went to smash.
Only two factories out OF the whole
number survived, and the industry ex-
psriences no revival until the time OF
Napoleon III 1t was not until the
early 70's that Germany realized what
the French had been doing with beets,
aad by Offering big bounties the couu-
Try has gone away ahead in the indus
Try. Germany last year produced over
:. Geo. 900 tens Of beet sugar. and after
supplying her own people exported
SO. 900. coo worth of the product.
Beside this, Germany yielded other
CROPS which reached a valuation $780,
coo Ooo in excess of the same crops
produced from the same acreage in this
country.
Sugar beets are now being grown IN
sixteen of our States, but our biggest
beet growers are IN Michigan, Colorado
and Cahfornia. Factories are scatter
cd aII about In Michigan there six
teen. Are there cooperative factories!
Nos in this country. They have them
il Germany, where the farmer supplies
beets at a low price to the mill and
takes his money out Of the dividends
the factory makes. There IS not a
country IN Europe with the exception
Of England, that does not produce its
owa sugar.
.Of course, all our half million tons
Of beet sugar is used here, cane sugar
can perhaps be made tritie cheaper,
because labor in the tropics is so much
cheaper than here. But the growing Of
suFar heets may have results of which
the sale Of beets Is q small item.
According to Secretary Wilson of
the Department of Agriculture, We
have 50 much beet sugar territory that
II only one acre in fifty were planted in
bests once in every four years we
rond supply cur own demand for
smear Il we diversified our wheat,
oafs. barley. rye and potatoes every
foar years with q sowing Of beets we
would produce as great tonnage Of
sent sugar as Germany, and our farm
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