The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-08-02
OFFERS GREAT
FOR INDIANA
Larger Yields of All Crops
Following Beet Culture
Boost Value of
Farm Lands.

tue yleiO Oh wheat, OaIS ana OtnN
cereals grown In the intervening year
Is increased from so to so per cent
Records collected from American farm
ers In sections where beet culture ha
been followed for a number OF year
show that the yield OF other crop
grown In rotation with beets has In
creased an average OF A, per cent
The yield of wheat on these. lands ad
vanced from 26.0 bushels per acre t
. 81. Corn went up from 41.6 bushels
to 53.1 and oats from 40.9 to CO.,
bushels. The effect OF the deep pillow
Ing and thorough cultivation required
Dy sugar beets in boosting the yield:
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 we'll above the average. Apply
Ing this rate OF increase to Indiana
farms would mean that the agricuk
turai wealth Of the state would be In
creased S25,000,0O0 a year by the gen
eral adoption Of sugar beet growing.
Not only does the establishment OF
the sugar beet industry add directly
TO the wealth Of the state from the
money 1t brings In or keeps at home
and indirectly through the increase OF
other farm crops grown In rotation
with beets, but 1t 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 n
clearly marked. Many of the farms In
these districts were heavily mortgaged
ten years ago. The mortgages have
been paid off 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 In ths past few
years by newcomers who want to share
In the prosperity that accompanies this
crop. Bank deposits have gone I'D.
The sellers of agricultural implements,
dry goods men and dealers in all other
lines tell OF improved sales and report
that collections OF bills are made with
much greater promptness wherever the
sugar industry has been introduced.
@. A. Dugan, banker of Decatur,
whe 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 distance Of several miles has ris
en- nearly % per cent since the fac,
tory's establishment. This Is not sur.
prfsing I'm view OF the fact that In CIV.
cry case where the beet sugar industry
has been established In any part OF the
country gain OF from 30 TO 100 per
cent has taken place In land values
within three or four years. When the
beet sugar factory ut Pauldlng, o., not
Tar from Decatur, was started two
years ago the same upward tendency
OF land prices WINS Observed. and Il
has been found Tint the increase since
that time has totnlcl more thpn S..
100000 In pnuldlng county alone.
The adjoining state of Michigan.
whose soil produce. hccts I'm no way
To those Of Indiana, now has
seventeen beet sugar factories. Indiana
could support no less thnn 100 IL MI
the available land were used Tor the
,rop only one year I'm four. While this
igure represents n distant possibility.
here Is NO renson why the state should
lot have from ilrteen 90 twenty-five
such establishments. Taking the low
st figure. fftecn factories would
mean that when they were well under
way the state would have yearly In.
'omo of Sl5,O00,000 year for sugar
Alone, or this huge sum $500. 900 |
you'd go directly 20 the fnrni&p fm
heir Beets, Sl.5mOoDw0uru 20 10 the
900 or 1000 workmcn who would lie
wen employment aud the greater part
Z the remainder would stay within the
tnto. The Increase IN land values
you'd be almost too grcatto estimate
ertninly 10, less than Si0.0o0.00o.
From the results obtained I'm tho pro-
uction OF beet sugar I'm Adams county
nd surrounding sections and from
ests In growing bccts In other parts
Z tho state. which show that Indiana
nm produce t. high grade OF sugar
Gets ~ ANY state In the country, there
no douhl that lr the policy OF grow.
TX within the United States the sugar
feed the American people continues
, receive he encouragement OF tho
ederal government ~ Il has In the
ast ufieeH Nca~. Iudtana will take q
'ad!hg pnrt IN the sugar beet Industry
nd thrnusn Il VIII aid millions of dol.
lrs e hrr nnuHat wealth That the
phuilt'ins AZ t'n> Industry is impor-
'nf to 49, consumers NJ well as 10 the
rodu' cts of lie stnte wns shown plain
enough ~ inil when the price OF
ngar. which bal gone skyrocketing mp
10 cents pound and was being held
$G.55 10 $3.50 per hundred pounds
'holesale 10y the trust and other REIN
~ came tumbling down 10 its normal
vel "a soon as the yield OF the SUGAR
eet Gelds e. me- unou the ma rk~>