Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-22
ereage in Minnesota to Be Increased in 1917
Over Any Previous Year---Farmers Near
Chaska Received $247, 100000 in 1916.
eet Culture Puts the Soil in Prime Condition for Other
Crops and Results in Vastly Increased Production
America Could Produce All the Sugar 1t Needs.
Declares Prevalent Beliefs wronu.

".All of these conclusions are falla-
cious, for even a chemist, surrounded
with all his scientific laboratory euuip
ment, cannot distinguish one from the
other. Although derived from differ
ent species of plants, the refined prod
ucts from the juice of the cane and
Deet is the same composition, in
ssWeetening power, in dietic effect, in
chemical reaction, in all other ne
spects. Furthermore, if maple sugar
were reboiled and passed through the
process of refining, it would lose its
aroma and flavor, which are wholly in
the impurities, and the white crystals
would be identical with those derived
sugar cane and sugar beets.
Pure sugar, whether derived from
beet or cane, is as identical as is pure
gold, whether mined in the Rocky
mountains or in the Transvaal. It
would be as reasonable for a house
wife to attribute the failure of her
omelette to the fact that the hens
which laid the eggs were Rhode Island
Reds instead of Wyandottes, as to at
tribute the failure of her preserves to
the use of beet instead of cane sugar
European Beets Give Halt.
'Tnasmuch as one-haIf of the 20
100000 tons annual sugar production
OF he world is derived from European
sugar beets, to assume that this sugar
cannot be used for preserving fruit or
making confectionery is to assume
that where beet sugar is produced the
people either go without confectionery
and preserves or that they import cane
sugar with which to prepare them.
DIR Wiley, while chief of the bu-
reau of chemistry of the department
of agriculture of the United States,
said:
Refined sugar, whether it is made
from cane, beets, corn, maple sap or
any other product, is the same, chem
ically and physically. 1t is impossi-
BILE to distinguish between refined
beet and refined cane sugar. Chem
lists cannot do it. Housewives in
this country often attribute their fail
uers in putting up preserves to the
use of beet sugar. The same failures
occur when can sugar was used. In
Europe nothing but beet sugar is used
and still they have all kinds of pre-
serves; in fact, England, where bee{
and cane sugars are used without
preference, is noted for these prod
ucts.' a;rf rfrg, N 4sss5n5T
From the foregoing authoritative
definitions it will be seen that there
is nc possibility of determining the
| source from which a pure sugar crys-
tai is derived and to claim to be able
to distinguish one from the other is
to assume the possession of a power
of discernment and discrimination
which the scientists of the world, aid
ed by all the arts of chemistry and
equipped with the most delicate scien.
tiic apparatus, have failed to develop.
"The well defined sugar beet area
of the United States extends from
Maine to California. 1t covers 274,.
O00, 900 acres, and the planting of one
of these acres out of each 200 TIC
sugar beets would supply us with all
the sugar which we are now com
PEELED to purchase abroad.
aThe $1,000 700. 900 which were sent
abroad in the fiscal year 1915 for the
purchase of foreign sugar which we
could produce at home from 1900, O0o
acres Of sugar beets absorbs the en-
tire gross proceeds which our farm
ers derive from 10,779, 900 acres Of
wheat.