The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-01-24
OFFERS GREAT
F OR INDIANA
Larger Yields Of All Crops
Following Beet Culture
Boost Value of
Farm Lands.

O00 Co II rao uTue parT1lce OH the
state.
lhat Is only one. and the less i'm
pOrtant of the beneficial results that
would follow the utilization Of a com
paratively small portion of Indiana s
farm lands for the production of the
sugar. which the people Of the state
are consuming In yearly increasing
quantities. OF still greater value
would be its effect in adding tfemen-
dously to the farm wealth of the state
by increasing the yield Of other crops
grown in rotation with sugar beets.
Experience in countries like France
and Germany, where sugar beets have
been grown for many years on large
scale, show that from land which Is
planted to this crop one year in four
the yield of wheat, oats and other
cereals grown In the intervening years
is increased from so to 80 per cent
Records collected from American farm
ers In sections where beet culture has
been followed for q number Of years
show that the yield OF other crops
grown In rotation with beets has in
creased an average OF II per cent
Uhe yield Of wheat on these lands ad-
vanced from 26.9 bushels per acre to
AL Corn went MP from 41e bushels
to 53.1 and oats from 400 to COG
bushels. The effect Of the deep plow-
Ing and thorough cultivation required
by sugar beets In boosting the yields
of the other crops grown I'm successive
years Is all the more. striking, as the
yields obtained by these farmers be
fore beginning sugar beet cultivation
were we'll above the average Apply
ing this rate of increase to Indiana
farms would mean that the agricul-
tural wealth of the state would be in
creased S25,OO0,O00 year by the gen
eral adoption OF sugar beet growing.
Not only does the establishment of
the sugar beet industry add directly
to the wealth of the state from the
money 1t brings in or keeps at home
and indirectly through the increase of
other farm crops grown I'm rotation
with beets, but 1t also adds greatly TO
the market value of farm lands.
In Michigan. where the sugar beet in
dustry has reached such proportions
that the state produces all it's own
sugar and ships considerable amount
to other markets, its effect upon farm
values and business prosperity in the
sectionsN surrounding the factories is
clearly marked. Many of the farms in
these districts were heavily mortgag ged
ten years ago. The mortgages have
been paid off SO rapidly that today nj
most the only farms in the sugar coun-
try that are not debt free are those
that have been bought in the past few
years by newcomers who want to share1
In the prosperity that accompanies this
crop. Bank deposits have gone UP.
The sellers of agricultural implements,
dry goods men and dealers in all other
lines tell of improved sales and report |
that collections of bills are made With
much greater promptness wherever the !
sugar industry has been introduced.
c. A. Dugan, q banker Of Decatur.
who has watched the development of
the industry there, keeping careful rec
Drd of business transactions I'm the city
has estimated that the value of land In |
the city and on the surrounding farms |
for distance of several miles has ris-
an nearly p per cent since the fac
,ory's establishment This Is not sur.
DriSing In view of the fact that in ev |
Try case where the beet sugar industry |
has been established in any part of the
country a gain Of from 80 to 100 perl
,ent has taken place in land values
within three or four years. When the
beet sugar factory at Paulding. 6. not
'ar from Decatur, was started twol
Tears ago the same upward tendency
IF land prices was observed. and i'll
las been found that the increase since /
hat time has totaled mere than s..
100000 In Pauiding county alone.
The adjoining state of Michigan.
whose soil produces beets in no way
TO those Of Indiana. now has
eventeen beet sugar factories. Indiana
'ould support no less than leo If al
he available land were used for the
rop only one year in four. While this
Igure represents a distant possibility.
here is no reason why the state should
lot have from fifteen TO twenty-Rv
uch tnblishments Taking the low
st figure. afteen factories would |,
nean that when they were well underI
Vay the state would have a yearly In |.
ONE OF sb,Oo00W year for. sugar
lone. or this huge sum $500, 900 |.
you'd 30 dFectE tQ the farmers forI
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