Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-12-29
SUGAR BEETS INCREASE Other CROPS
Deep Flowing and Proper Rotation Are Essential
says Prof. Cost.

cupied by the Hatvanys, there arc
beautiful homes for the various man
ayers and superintendents. small
city of workingmen's homes, innum-
cradle barns of great proportions, ma
chine shops, wagon and blacksmith
shops, dairies, electric light plant, ice
plant, and everything else necessary
to conduct the estate without calling
on the outside world. A private mar
cars, taps every field. The estate is
equipped with an abundance of the
best agricultural machinery. includ-
ing numerous steam plows, all of
which is carefully housed 1t is
stocked with 1000 dairy cows and
work oxen, which produce great guam
titles of manure, and this is priced
highly and protected as carefully as is
the grain, being thoroughly rotted be-
fore it is spread on the fields Every
pound OF milk is shipped to Budapest
The refuse of the factory is used to
feed the cattle, and upon learning that
American farmers about many of our
bcet-sugar factories would not haul
the pulp away as gift, they asked
me to look the matter up and see il
arrangements could not be made to
dry it and sell it to them for term
of years. They raise vast quantities
of wheat. but never sell bushel, sew
ell modern flour mills on the estate.
with = capacity of 10000 sacks a day.
turning it into flour and leaving the
by-products to be fed to stock. The
same with the barley; a well-eauipped
brewery turns it into beer. leaving the
by-product for stock food. One can
not imagine more scientifically man.
aged property, where every farthing
of profit is secured.
First. They secure the customary
profit in producing raw cereal pro-
ducts.
Second. By preparing the raw ma
terial for the table and shipping moth
ing but what is ready for direct con-
sumption. they secure the manufac-
turing profit.
Third. By feeding the by-products
10 their own stock instead of wasting
or selling them to feeders, they Sc
cure the profit from dairying and fat
tening cattle.
Fourth. From their 1000 head of
dairy cows and work oxen they Sc
cure an abundance of manure with
which TO build up the chemical con-
dition OF their soil and make it more
productive, thus securing another
profit.
Fifth. By operating a sugar fac
toiy WHICH SllCcS tHe DGcts ITOII SO,-
900 to $1,000 acres of ground, they
secure the profit derived from sugar
manufacture and also from the feed
ing value of the resultant by-prod-
ucts.
Sixth. By growing 5000 acres of
beets, they secure the profits of su-
gar beet farming.
Seventh. By rotating beets with
1000 acres of wheat, barley. oats and
other crops, the consequent deep
plowing, thorough cultivation, and
aerating effect of the beet rootlets
keeps their soil in perfect physical
condition and so greatly increases the
yield of all other crops that this pro-
duces the greatest profit of all.
By following the above method.
they are able to extract the last dol
lar the estate is capable of produc-
ing. and however long this method
might be continued, the productivity
Of the soil would be maintained at its
maximum. 1t reminded me of Ar
mour's packing house where he said
they saved all of the hog but the
squeal. The Hatvanys own two 9TH
er large estates in Hungary. one of
$4,000 acres. both equipped with huge
up-to-datc beet sugar factories, the
raw product for which furnishes the
inspiration for this character of farm
ing. This is but one of the many
equally well-managed European es-
tates where sugar beets form the piv-