Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-06-20
CONTINUED from First Parel


German sugar factories as extensive
as you may desire. 50 that you may
prove this at first hand.
You state, through Mr.. Hardwick,
through Mr.. LIGHT, that the price
paid for beets in Russia is about
$9.42 ton.
am generous enough to believe
this to be a typographical error, but
if not, if that is the figure you wish
to quote, it shows an ignorance Of
actual facts that is appalling. The
price paid for beets in Russia is less
than in Germany and less than half
the figures you give.
Mr.. Heating, when gu ting an
others figures, 1t shows but fair
ness TO quote him correctly, which
you did not do. did not say that
sugar companies pay the farmer $2.70
per hundrde unGs for the sugar
content of beets, but l did say, and
repeat, that 1t cost modern, up to
date factories, located within the
district you represent, more than 81
10 per hundred pounds of sugar Chat
refers to sugar manufactured-and to
what else could it refer?) for beets
al ne.
At err misquCting my statement You
answer it by gong into TRADE
aga nst the trust. Don't you know
Mr.. Heating, that you are playing
into the hanls of the trdst, uninten-
tioialy or otherwise, by Gripping
the nestle ar indu try? You
certain'y must real re this. If you
have studied the situation at all, and
If you know it, why try to answer
the issue? 1t Will not get you any
thing" with your const tuelcy. Just
statement OF ia is by befuddling
figure this out for yourself
The factories in the Arkansas val
ley pay $3.50 per ton of 1000 pounds
for beets of 40 per cent sugar con-
tent. They pay about 20 cents per
ton additional for fire sht on such
beets and 80 cents per ton additional
for all beets sliced. About one-half
of the beets are sliced, making the
total cost of such beets 1871 per
ton.
A modern, up to date factory is
efficiently managed indeed if it eN-
tracts $50 per cent OF the sugar pur-
chased in the form Of raw material
from average Colorado beets. Such
factory will produce some molass-
es, which contains sugar, but the
recovery from slch molasses requii es
special Irocesses, which is an entire
ly different matter.
may state, however, that among
the 60 some beet sugar factories in
the United States. greater num-
Der are equipped with molasses de-
sugarizing processes than are among
the 300 and more in Germany.
Now, as to the other returns the
German farmer receives Tor his
beets. The farmers in the Arkansas
valley receive 40 per cent of the
pulp, just as they do in Germany.
thing Mr.. Keating. During the sea
son 1923 the farmers in the Arkan-
sas valley were furnished seed by
the sugar companies at the rate OF
10 cents per pound, when the same
seed had cost them fraction over
10 cents per pound. Not a very pro-
htab g business, you will admit.
And another thing, MIR. Keating, The
lgar companies in this country have
CO s;ru ted, II aintain a1d ope ale,
and pay royalty upon a Continuance
known as n beet dump" by means
OF which an American farmer in a
few minutes Of time has his four or
five ton ad of beets unloaded with
out effort on his part, whrels, his
German CO nnetitor peri rms the
same operation by hand, at his own
expense. This item al ne offse,s
any antlGe The German farmer
may have on seed.
And, aside from all of this, aside
from the fact that the beets cost
German manufacture about $500
per ton less, laid down at the fac
tory, German beets are of a super
/ ior quality, permitting a greater pro-
Il En-, af aF.
/ Is common knowledge to all who pro-
fess TO know as mach about the SUI
gar business as you profess to know.
The American farmer has not yet
leai ned to grow u beet of as high
quality as is grown in Germany mol
could this be expected, for the Ger
mans have been at II for n hundred
years, we, in the Arkansas valley for
dozen years. And remember, dur
ing all these hundred years, the Ger
man sugar industry has been, and
is now, protected from foreign conn
petition. And yet, in view of these
facts, you expect American sugar
man f Ict re. to compete with the
Germans.
Your statement as to labor costs
of S.14 per hundred of sugar is on
parity with S9.42 per ton of beets
in Russia. 1t is absurd. But, since
you say it is founded upon Congress
s'olal records, it will he Appreciated
if you will indicate just where such
testimony is to be found.
Your reference to the "old junk
in the Las Animas factory" displays
an Ignorance OF actual conditions
in your own district, even greater
than you have been given credit for
1t so happens, Mr.. Heating, that the
Las Animas plant is the latest and
mot modern factory in the state.
crested by the best sugar engineers
in the country.
l should like to appeal TO your