Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-05-23
Nevada FARMS
GREAT CHANCE
Cultivation Of Sugar Beets
Would Open Wider Markets.
PRESENTED TO SENATORS.

Results at Truckee-c Carson Develop
ment Farm Show That Sugar eeets,
Most Valuable Crop, Would Remove
Handicap Of Transportation to East
ern Market. and Increase Other Crop
Yields.
That the most profitable yields of
Nevada's farms are capable Of COM
peting protitably for the most distant
markets is the most significant fact
which has been brought to light by the
recent report of the Truckee-CarsoE
experiment farm. 1t is one of ire
mendous Importance to the state. The
ability Of what in the past have been
regarded as waste lands to grow good
crops under irrigation has, Of course.
already beer established. But because
of Nevada's distance from the great
markets of the Atlantic seaboard and
its limited transportation service the
difficulty has been to market them
over any extended area. Now. how
ever this may all be changed.
The medium which is to remove
from Nevada's farm products the
handicap of distance has been discov-
cred in the sugar beet. which. if its
growth be encouraged. promises to rev.
%olutionize the agricultural history of
the state. The report Of the expert
ment farm shows that of all the staple
crops grown this outranked all others.
yielding a maximum of $147.77 an acre
in farm value and an average Of
$53.93. In other words, Nevada a
grow sugar beets on her reclaimed
lands and grow them with big profit.
So significant is this apparently SIM
pie fact. not only for Nevada. but for
the entire west as well. meaning as it
does millions OF additional farm wealth
to this state alone. that it has caused
an economist who has given much
study to this matter to call it's impor-
lance to the attention of Senator Fran
els G.. Newlands and other western
senators in Il striking letter.
"The last census" says this author
Ny. showed that the eleven western
most states had increased 66.33 per
cent in population within the last
decade as compared with the average
increase of 21.6 per cent for the entire
country.
THE one great problem in connec-
ton with the development of he west
is transportation to the great cOnsuIn-
ing centerS of the east. Local con-
sumption of general farm and garden
products must necessarily be limited
for many years except in the vicinity
of the large Pacific cities. An export
crop must therefore be produced-one
that will find Il ready market at desti-
nation.
THE one great staple for which there
is Il constantly expanding market is
sugar. The United States imports at
the present time nearly 1000. 900 tons
of sugar per annum from foreign coun,
tries, practically all from Cuba. Sugar
Is a staple for which there is always
a market, and if necessary it can be
stored for long periods with little de
teriOration. Furthermore. beet sugar
is a finished product. representing only
about 10 per cent of the weight of the
raw material from which it is produc-
ed. whereas, in the case of fruit, alfalfa
and grain crops, high freight charges
to the eastern markets must be paid
on the ENTIRE weight of the commo-
dity just as it comes from the orchard
or the field.
1T has been demonstrated by years
Of experience that nc section OF the
United States-in fact. no country III
the worlds better adapted to the cul-
tivatiOn OF the sugar beet tina are the
irrigated lands of the west. The pro
ductiOn Of sugar beets under irrigation
for the first time in the worlds history
was commenced in Utah in 1891. and
so successful has it beer done that 40
per cent Of the total beet sugar output
of the United States is now produced
81 the western states Il irri2itioH.
Cherries, good ones, at the Bon Ton
Parlors.