The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-02-15
OFFERS GREAT
FOR INDIANA
Larger Yields Of All Crops
Following Beet Culture
Boost Value OF
Farm Lands.

oOU.rT IN I'M uuue paruuce UT tn'
state.
That Is only one, and the less I'm
portant. of the beneficial results thar
would follow the utilization OF com
paratively small portion OF lndianas
farm lands for the production OF tho
sugar, which the people or the state
are consuming iD yearly increasing
quantities. OF still greater value
would be its effect In adding tremen
dously to the farm wealth OF the state
by increasing the yield of other crops
grown in rotation with sugar beets
Experience In countries ike france |
and Germany. whore sugar beets nave
been grown for many years on q iargt |
scale. show that FROM land which Ii |
planted to this crop one year In four
the yield of wheat. oats and other
cereals grown in the intervening years
Is increased frolh ID to 80 per cent
Records collected from American farm
ers In sections where beet culture has
been followed for number of years
show that the yield OF other crops
grown in rotation with beetS has In
creased an average Of 44s per cent.
The yield of wheat on these lands ad-
vanced from 26.9 bushels per acre to
43.1. Corn went up from 41.6 bushels
to 53.1 and oats from 4O.9 to 600
bushels The effect OF the deep plow-
ing and thorough cultivation required
| by sugar beets In boosting the yields
of the other crops grown In successive
years is all the more striking. as tue
| yie.Cs otGiled b. is.e7c farmers bs
fore beginning sugar beet cultivation
were we'll 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 S25,OO0000 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 it 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 considerable amount
to other markets, It's effect upon farm
values and business prosperity In the
sections surrounding the factories h
clearly marked. Many Of the farms IL
these districts were heavily mortgaged
ten years AGO. The mortgages have
been paid of SO rapidly that today al
most the ONLY farms III the sugar coun
try that are not debt free are thoS'
That have been b"usht in th>. past few
? years By newcomers who want 10 shari
? IN the prosperity that ac, ompnnies thi
+ crop. Bank deposits have gone VI.
D The sellers of agri 'Iligrtt implements
dry goods men and Ge;'rrs liz al othe
O lines tell OF impro Cd sales and repor
y that collections of bills we rnadc witt
4 much greater prolnptneSs> wherever th'
;. sugar industry has been Introduced.
o c. A. Dugan. banker Of Decatur
a who has watched the development o
the industry there. keeping careful rec
!. ord Of business transactions iD the city
D has estimated that che value of land il
e the city and on the surrounding farm
Il for q distance Of several miles has ris
ID en- nearly - per cent since the fac
q tory's establishment. This Is not sur
&c prising In view of the fact that In ey
10 ery case where the beet sugar induSt
J. has been established In ally part or IN
Y country a gain Of from 80 to 100 pe
Of cent has taken place In land value
r within three or four years. When tt
er beet sugar factory at Paulding. O.. nc
re far from Decatur. was started tw
@ wears ago the same upward tendenc
he Of land prices WAS observed. ana
ut has been found that the increase sine
as that time has totaled more than So
Is 600 600 in Paulding county alone
ne The adjoining state OF Michigan
ar whose soil produces beets In no va
te. super,or TO those Of Indiana, now hs
"a seventeen beet sugar factories. Indian
ne could support no less than l66 IL a
D. the available land were used for II
en- crop only one year In four. While IN
us figure represents distant possibilit
III there is no reason why the state shou
he not have from fifteen 10 twenty-h'
I'D such establishments. Taking the 10y
re- est figure, fifteen factories wou
1h mean that when they were well und
LOT way the state would have q yearly l
au come Of s15,000,0O0 year for sug
'us alone. OF this huge sum $s,5oo.0 o
,-" Tp1ld 60 directly To the farmers I