The Ordway new era., 1917-05-11
Sugar Beet News
and Farm Notes
Continued from last week)

at Ham, in 1S4Z, SAID OIL tne DoeQ
sugar industry in his Analyse de lay
Question des Sucres:
1t retains workmen in the country,
and gives them employment in the
dullest months of the year; 1t diff
fuses among the agricultural classes
good methods of culture, calling tO0
their aid industrial science and theS
arts of practical chemistry and mech !
anics. 1t multiplies the centers OF
labor. 1t promotes, in consequence
those sound principles upon which
rest the organization of society and
the security of governments; for the
prosperity of a people is the basis OF
public order. Wherever theI
beet is cultivated, and the general
prosperity is promoted.
In another place the same author
puts the following words in the
mouth of the sugar industry:
Respect me, for improve the soil
| make the land fertile which, with
out me, would be uncultivated. l give|
H
wise would be idle. l solve one OF
the greatest problems of modern So
ciety. l organize and elevate labor
In 1853, when the French Emperor
and Empress came to Valenciennes{
triumphal arch was erected, with
the following inscription:
Sugar Manufacture
Napoleon I, who created it. Be
fore the manufacture of beet sugar
the reimbursement of Valenicnnes
produced 695.75O bushels of wheat
and fattened 700 oxen.
Napoleon III, who protected it
Since the manufacture of beet sugar
was introduced the reimbursement OF
Valenciennes produces 1,157,750 bu-
shells of wheat and fattens 11,50G
oxen.
Grant. in his Beet Root Sugar and
Cultivation of the Sugar Beet (1S67)I
says:
l have said direct net profit of
$40 per acre, because it has been
found in Europe that there is also
an indirect profit on the beet crop
in the large increase of crops succeed
ing it and in the cattle supported by
the pulp. Experiments have conclu
sively proved, that lands now yield
from two to three times as much as
grain and support from eight to ten
times as many cattle, in the beet
growing districts as they did before
the beet was introduced. The great
beet producing districts of France are
the grain districts and the cattle
districts also. The three branches Of
agriculture always coexist.
If our farmers were made to know
that by proper rotation the culture
of 40 acres of sugar beets would in
crease their yield of all other crope/
on 160 acres from 20 to 80 per cent.
you could not build factories fast
enough to care for the beets they
would furnish. Gradually they will
find it out themselves, but 1t is slow
process.
Five years ago a beet sugar fac
tory was erected in Chaska, MINI.
where it since has operated each year,
and as evidence of the time 1t takes
to disprove erroneous impressiona
and absorb the truths which Napol-
con publicly proclaimed a century
ago, and which since have been pro
claimed by practically every Euro
1,.;o fc< NJ "a
1 quote local notice which recently
appeared in the Wabash, MINI.
Herald. This notice says:
One of the best crops OF wheat
raised in this vicinity this year was
that of George Hauswedel. The wheat
was fine stand of good quality and
well filled out. There were IA acres,
and the result in threshing was AMI
average of 80 bushels to the acre.
This comes as a surprise to many
farmers, since the field was planted
to sugar beets last year, and the i'm
preston prevails that a crop Of the
latter will SO exhaust the soil AZ TO
yield poor crop of grain the next
year. Mr.. Hauswedel. however. has
the fallacy OF this sup-
position. We understand that ths
soil was given no special treatment.
and no particular effort was made to-
ward securing an exceptional result.
You see that with q factory operats
ing in their midst for five years tha
erroneous impression still prevaile
that sugar beets exhaust the ooil. Mo<3
withstanding the contrary expsrlla
of all Europe. and this man. - ps1