The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-22
SUGAR Interests
down On TARIFF
BULLETIN ISSUED REGARDING
FREE SUGAR ON LIST OF TAR
IFF SCHEDULES ISSUED BY
THE DOMESTIC SUGAR INTER
ESTS. .

The domestic sugar interests Of the
country, in opposition to the admission
of free sugar in the new Underwood
tariff bill, have issued a circular which
declares that free sugar, will be a
blow to farm progress. as free sugar
will halt the Improvement of crop
yields. Following Is the article sent
out in the bulletin: e.
The reckless and wasteful ann in
which American farmers destroy the
fertility of their lands. mining rather
than filling the soil, is a source of
constant establishment to foreign OBJ
servers, accustomed as they are to
consider the preservation of the
| fecundity Of the soil Is the very life
| blood Of Industrial progress. In a re-
cent editorial published in connection
| with the visit of the American agri-
| cultural commission The London
Times comments upon this subject.
saying:
Americans nave dealt with their
in a pioneer spirit of sheer wanton
pillage. The soil especially has been
SO shamefully mishandled that its
crop-producing power is both actually
and relatively on the decline.
I'm spite of the lavish expenditure
by the states in agricultural colleges.
of exceptional advantages in the way
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and of the steady thrush Of the best
European peasants. the American
| farmer remains all but the worst in
ne world. He has settled On h LAND
like locusts. exhausted 1t and moved
on
although products of his farm sup
ply not far short Of hal them materials
| used by American manufacturers and
account for some 10 per cent of the
country's exports, the time Is no far
! distant when the United States will he
hard pressed to feed Its own people"
Every French and German econo
mist who visits the United States is
similarly impressed by the disregard
OF the agencies that would result in an
Improvement of the nations agricul-
tural output if properly utilized. Par
| ticularly has surprise been expressed
in recent months by these foreign OBJ
servers. unbiased by politics, that the
dominant political partytin the United
States should be willing to sacrifice
the one farm industry-sugar beet cul-
I~ture-that is most effective in improv-
ing the condition OF the soil Ind in
~ereasing the yield of every other staple
grown in rotation with sugar beets.
The systematic encouragement OF
sugar beet growing is the very founda-
ton stone Of the tremendous progress
that has been made in the past quar-
ter century In the acreage yield of al
farm crops ID Germany, France
Austria Hungary and other European
countries. The men who are familiar
with the ~far-reaching agricultural
benefits bestowed by the sugar beei
Industry in Europe realize. il the
president and the leaders Of congress
do not. that in destroying the Ameri-
can beet sugar industry one of the
most important agencies for the i'm
IprovemeTt OF the crop yields of the
United states will be lost. This h
abundantly proved by the experience
l8of hundreds of American farmers 5Whe
have found through carefully KEEP
records that their acreage Yields ~
wheat, corn, oats and other crops have
been increased from 40 to go per cent