The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-09-12
OFFERS GREAT
FOR INDIANA
Larger Yields Of All Crops
Following Beet Culture
Boost Value Of
Farm Lands.

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the yield Of wheat. oats aud other
cereals grown in the intervening years
is increased from - 10 ~ per cent
Records collected from American farm
ers IN sections where beet culture has
been followed for a number OF years
show that the yield OF other crops
grown in rotation with beets has IN.
creased an average Of IL, per cent.
The yield OF wheat on these lands ad.
vanced from 2Gs bushels per acre to
<31. Corn went up from 41.6 bushels
TO 53.1 and oats from 800 10 coo
bushels The effect OF the deep pillow
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. a. the
yields obtained by these farmers be-
fore beginning sugar beet cultivation
were well above the average. Apply.
Ing this rate OF increase 10 Indiana
farms would mean that the aGricr!-
tural wealth Of the state would be In.
creased $4,000. 600 4 year by the gen.
eral adoption OF sugar beet growing.
Not only does the establishment OF
the sugar beet industry add directly
% the wealth OF the state from the
money il brings IN or keeps at home
and indirectly through the increase OF
other farm crops grown IN rotation
with beets. but II also adds greatly &c
the market value OF farm hands.
In nh. - -. a.
dustry has reached such proportions
that the state produces all its Owl
sugar and ships a considerable amount
to other markets. its effect upon farm
values and business prosperity In tie
sections surrounding the factories r
clearly marked. Many Of the farms in
these districts were heavily mortgased
ten years ago. The mortgages have
been paid OF 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 tbs past few
years by newcomers who want 10 shan
IN the prosperity that accompanies thi,
crop. Bank deposits have gone up
The sellers Of agricultural implements
dry goods men and dealers In all Other
lines tell Of improved sales and reDori
that collections OF bills are made witt
much greater promptness wherever tbs
sugar Industry has been introduced
G. A Dugan. a banker Of Decatur
who has watched the development 81
the industry there. keeping careful rec
t. fEv
has estimated that the value OF II nd a.
the city and on the surrounding farm
FOR a distance Of several miles has rs
en- nearly % per cent since the fac
tory's establishment. This is not sur
prising in view OF the fact that IN ev
cry case where the beet sugar industry
has been established in any part OF the
country a gain OF from 80 TO 100 per
cent has taken place in land values
within three or four years. When the
beet sugar factory at Pauldinc. O.. not
far from Decatur. was started two
years ago the same upward tendency
OF land prices was observed, and It
has been found that the increase since
that time has totaled more than So
100000 In Pauldlng county alone.
The adjoining state OF Michigan,
whose soil produces beets In no way
superior to those OF Indiana, now has
seventeen beet sugar factories. Indiana
could support no less than 166 IL all
the available land were used for the
crop only one year in four. While this
figure represents a distant possibility
there IS no reason why the state should
not have from fifteen to twenty-five
such establishments. Taking the low.
est figure. fifteen factories would
mean that when they were well under
way the state would have yearly In
come OF S15.Cc0OOO a year for sugar
alone. or this huge sum $500. 900
would 20 directly 10 the farmers FOR
their 6eets. Sl.JFrurD wouTU 20 to the
1000 or 5.0oD workmen who would be
given employment and the greater part
Of the remainder would stay within the
state. The increase In land values
would be almost too great TO estimate
certainlynot less than 100000.
From the results obtained In the pro
duction OF beet sugar In Adams county
and surrounding sections and from
tests In growing beets In other parts
Of the state. which show that Indiana
can produce as high a grade OF sugar
beets as any state I'm the country. there
10 no doubt that II the policy Of grow
Ing within the United States the sugar
TO feed the American people continues
TO receive the encouragement OF the
federal government as Il has In the
past fifteen years. Indiana will take q
leading part I'm the sugar beet Industry
and through IL will add millions OF dol
lars to her annual wealth. That the
upbuilding OF this industry Is irnpor
tant TO the consumers as well as to the
producers OF the state was shown plain.
~ enough I'm 1911 when the price OF
sugar. which had gone skyrocketing up
to 10 cents pound aud was being held
at S6-T5 10 S7E0 per hundred pounds
wholesale by the trust and other REIN
EN-, came tunbling down to its normal
L. II