Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-22

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hat the farmers are certain of get
Ing FIVE dollars a ton for their beets
his year, delivered to the nearestt
railroad station. The management
the factory stands ready to enter
nto a written contract to this effect,
p that the producers of beets for the
purpose of experimentation will be
tssured of a return for their labor
md investment.
d The WATERFOWL Chamber of Conn
nerce is undertaking to promote this
Experiment. ut is very strange to
ne" said Secretary George Schlosser
10 a representative of this paper,
#that land owners within the city
limits of Watertown and i~mmediate-j
~ adjacent, where the haul Of beets
TO the railroad station would be only
b nominal item of expense, with all the
Inducements for the cultivation of al
flew acres of beets, are so backward.
BIT seems hard to make them realize
that the ultimate building of a factory
plant in this city would enhance the
value of their holdings two-fold. Butt
let them read this article and come to
the Chamber of Commerce and talk
lit over. We must have a few more
gacres before We a feel ecure in our
undertaking"
The article in question was pub
lished in the Minneapolis Tribune of
Sunday, February II, and deals with
the sugar beet industry at Chaska,
MINI. 1t shows that the acreage I'M
1917 will be materially increased overl
that of previous years.
tt shows tha+ +ho4 40 IN - ~ coyo,
teen counties received for the crop
of last year $247,000.00.
Will Enlarge.
Increased sugar beet acreage inl
Minnesota this year." says the open
ing paragraph, lis presaged in the
announcement that the Minnesota
Sugar company at Chaska, operating
the only beet sugar factory in the
state, will enlarge it's plant and pre-
pare for a record production
Prof. G.. P. Bull of the university
college OF agriculture believes Mime
sofa farmers would do well to go more
extensively into beet production. We
have the soil and we have the sun
shine he said, and sugar beet grow
ing ought to be a good thing for farm
-ers throughout the state
The factory at Chaska used last
year the beet crop from about 1900
acres in IL counties. 1t turned out
10000 bags of sugar, of 100 pounds
to the bag. Farmers received about
$247,0o0 for their beets.
$4,000 Pounds Packed and Sold.
"a b%y-product of this factory is the
manufacture of dried beet pulp. Dur
ing the last year $4,000 bags were
packed and every pound has been sold.
A great deal of this dried beet pulp
has been sold locally, dairy farmers
realizing the great value of this prod
uct for producing milk during the
winter months. Another factor, the
local farmers have a great advantage
owe the eastern farmers, who use it
extensively, as they save the freight
charges, which in some instances.
amounts to as high as $3.50 a ton.
Some of the best known and most
successful dairy farmers of the west
are using der beet pulp extensively.
THE Chaska factory also produces
another by-product, known as refuse
molasses and about 1900 tons were
produced last year. This product is
run into tank al and shipped to
Minneapolis, Chicago, Omaha and
other large cities, where it is used
principally in the manufacture of
what is known as stock foods. This
refuse molasses is said to be an ex-
cellent stock food and when used
should be diluted SO per cent. West
ern sugar factories S this product,
as well as pulp, in feeding to cattle
kept right at the factory, and it is
proving very successful.
Another by-product of the big fac
tory is known as precipitated lime.
This lime for fertilizing purposes has
been tried out in various parts OF the
country with eminent success: Every
sugar factory uses lime in he anu-
facture of sugar and the after product
is then run into silos. 1T is known
as an excellent fertilizer, and is es-
pecially adaptable for sour land.
$t1,ooo,ooo Worth Of Sugar in State.
ssThes people Of Minnesota last year
consumed more than $11,000.00O worth
Of sugar. Most of this money went
outside the state-aH OF It, in fact,
except what was paid for the 3,684
tons produced at the Chaska factory.
Much Of the $11,000, 900 went TO re.
fners of foreign sugar and thence out
Of the United States. Yet experts say
that food article could be produced
right here at home without exhaust,
ing the states or unduly en-.
croaching on other agricultural inter
ests.
Prejudice sometimes voiced against
beet sugar is declared ~uniounded y
an article by Truman G Palmer Ssin
the Confectioners Gazette Init he
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