The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-08-06
OFFERS GREAT
FOR INDIANA
Larger Yields Of All Crops
Following Beet Culture
Boost Value Of
Farm Lands.

sraie, show that from land which 10
planted 10 this crop one year In four
the yield OF wheat, oats and other
cereals grown In the intervening years
Is increased from 80 TO 80 per cent
Records collected from American farm
srs IN sections where beet culture has
been followed for a number OF years
show that the yield OF other crops
grown In rotation with beets has In
creased an average OF Al per cent.
The yield OF wheat ON these lands adj
vanced from 26.e bushels per acre to
k3.1. Corn went up from 41.6 bushels
70 o3.l and oats from 400 TO coo
bushels. The effect OF the deep plow-
Ing and thorough cultivation required
by sugar beets I'm boosting the yields
OF the other crops grown In successive
years is all the more striking. as the
yields obtained by these farmers be-
fore beginning sugar beet cultivation
were well 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 $25.OO0.0OO a year by the gem
eral adoption OF sugar beet growing.
Not only docs the establishment Of
the sugar beet Industry add directly
20 the wealth of the state from the
money It brings in or keeps at home
and Indirectly through the increase OF
other farm crops grown In rotation
with beets. but II 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 its own
sugar and ships a considerable amount
to other markets. its effect upon farm
values and business prosperity IN the
sections surrounding the factories rs
clearly marked Many OF the farms In
these districts were heavily mortgaced
ten years ago. The mortgages have
been paid of so rapidly that today al
most the only farms In the sugar coun-
try that are not debt free are those
that have been bought I'm thS past few
years by newcomers who want TO share
In the prosperity that accompanies this
The sellers of agricultural implements,
dry goods men and dealers In all other
lines .ell OF improN cd sales and report
that collections 81 bills are made with
much greater promptness wherever the
sugar industry has been introduced.
G. A. Dugan. a banker Of Decatur.
who has watched the development OF
the industry there. keeping careful rec
ord of business transactions in the city.
has estimated that the value OF land in
the city and on the surrounding farms
for a distance OF several miles has ris-
en- nearly % per cent since the fac
tory's establishment This Is not sur.
prising In view OF the fact that In ev.
cry case where the beet sugar industry
has been established In any part OF the
country a gain OF from 80 to 100 per
cent hns taken place In land values
within three or four years. When the
beet sugar factory at Paulding. o.. not
far from Decatur. was started two
years ago the same upward tendency
Of land prices was observed. and IL
has been found that the Increase since
that time has totaled more than ST.
600. 600 in Paulding county alone.
The adjoining state OF Michigan,
whose soil produces beets in no way
superior to those of Indiana. now has
seventeen beet sugar factories. Indiana
could support no less than 1G6 II all
the available land were used for the
crop only one year In four. While this
figure represents n distant possibility,
there Is no reason why the state should
not have from fifteen to twenty-five
such establishments Taking the low
est figure. fiftccn factories would
mean that when they were well under
way the state would have a yearly In
come OF $15,00O.iaO a year for sugar
alone. or this huge sum ss.500.0O0
would go directly To the farmers for
sAeif -bects, sI.5rUU0D 'w0uTU go to the
1000 or 5000 workmen who would be
oven employment and the greater part
Of the remainder would stay within the
state. The increase in land values
would be almost too great TO estimate
certainly not less than $40Oo0.OOO.
From the results obtained In the pro
auction Of beet sugar In Adams county
and surrounding sections and from
tests In growing bccts In other parts
Of the state. which show that Indiana
can produce as high grade OF sugar
beets as any state IN the country. there
ID no doubt that II the policy OF grow
ing within the United states the sugar
TO feed the American people continues
to receive the encouragement OF the
federal government as II has In the
past fifteen years. Indiana will take q
leading part In the sugar beet industry
and through II Will add millions OF dol.
lars 10 her annual wealth. That the
upbuildng OF this industry IL impor
tant to the consumers as well as to thu
producers OF the state was shown plain
" enough I'm 1911 when the price OF
sugar. which had gone skyrocketing w
to 10 cents pound and was being held
at &0.T5 to $3.50 per hundred pounds
wholesale by the trust and other rem