The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-05
BEET SUGAR WILL
SOLVE A PROBLEM
AMERICAN FARMER CAN PRODUCE
ALI. SUGAR NEEDED FoR
HOME CONSUMPTION.
UNCLE SAM TELLS HOW
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
TRYING TO TEACH THEM To
KEEP THEIR MONEY
AT HOME

The United States department Of
agriculture's report on the beet sugar
industry Of the United States in the
years 1e10-19I1. has just been issued
by Secretary Wilson in a T3~page
pamphlet which contains articles on
the work of the bureau Of plant in
dustry on sugar beets. general re-
3Vlew OF the beet-sugar industry in
trhe United States, the sugar beet IN
European agricultural economy. reta-
tio1 or adoption to the Improvement
of sugar beet varieties for American
conditions. farm practice In the Ar
kansas Valley. Colorado, suggestion on
cultural methods in the sugar beet M
dustry. and sugar statistics. It is H.
Illustrated by two maps showing areas
where sugar beets are grown loca-
1ion OF sugar factories. rainfall and
frost data, and six other plates re-
laiing 10 the industry
The average American consumes
eightv-two pounds of sugar each year
and only ten pounds OF that ration
is now produced IN this country. The
farmers OF the country should keep
that money at home, In other words,
put it in their own pockets, and the
department of agriculture has been
trying for sixteen years to show them
how and induce them to do SO.
Sugar is a product OF manufacture
mainly from the farmers sugar cane
and sugar beets Incidentally some
sugar is produced from the sap of the
sugar napIe--rhe entire value OF that
product. both sugar and strip, and the
, sorghum strip, being only about x1h,-
e00. 900 annually, while the total value
OF the sugar beet and sugar cane In
dustries OF this country totaled- 21l1.-
coo. 10e.
Flood Hurt Cane industry.
The cane sugar industry Jared badly
this year on account of the Mississippi
river food. the entire production in
| Guiding molasses and sirup being val
ued at only s34,o0o.0o0.
| Best sugar is comparatively re-
cent product of this country, and can
scarcely be said to have existed TWEEN
~ years ago. The production during
the twelfth census year t1sssl
l.amounted to si.72s short TONS while
| the 1912 product aggregates 100000
| short tons valued at S53. 600, 600. The
growth OF this industry and the plans
! for it's increase indicate that beet
| raising fer sugar purposes Is much
desired by farmers for profit and cul-
/ tural benefit to the land.
| There are now in operation sixty
| six factories in seventeen States.
| which used during the past season o.
! 062,33S tons Of beets produced on
| 4.3,sz7 acres, and the industry has
6ecsiEie .Es@ AZ tfl.8 Ina nste5h AID, fa3sa
I supports or agriculture under frrfga-
| tion in the semi-arid States Yet this
| industry produces practically only one
/ eight OF the home consumption. The
| importation from entirely foreign ter
| ritory now asproximates 100000
I < hDTiA L.
| gar production sufficient to cut of
| this production would not affect the
/ home cane sugar industry adversely,
sheeause that has so nearly reached
! it's limit that any possible growth II
may have from now on will not equal
the annual increase In the country $
I consumption, which has considerably
more than doubled in the past twenty
i've years, and now is greater per cap
ita than any other country except Eng
land.
Looking Forward.
| With our present low average OF
| la short tons OF beet sugar per
/ acre 1t would require l,60o. 900
| acres to produce the 100000 short
! tons now imported; or. as the acre.
age harvested the last year was slight
| ly less than 47S. 1000, 1t would need the
, production of 100000 acres under
/ beets to equal the entire home de-.
| mand. condition to which for more
! than so years economists have looked
foswa d.
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