The Ordway new era., 1921-10-07

+ osnized. There is good reason 10 be-
( i7eve that We beet growers Will be
able to get right into the main office
of the Great Western and east the de-
Gliding vote on policy Nnun We gel
10 be ''twenty-one" in the matter OF
seeing whats the matt-- With us.
We. as individuals, here and there.
ar. not always the manly fix. We
ought to be in dealings with the COM
paay. and while those OF our crowd
who are carefully just in their pr;'c-
Ices are not directly penaliZed for the
misieeis of The others. Yet we cannot
escape the cost. in some measure The
.eal costs, though, in all activities OF
life. are economic evils. The waste
that comes from our mistaken or
thoughtless ways constitute the big
bill. Industrial errors are the moun-
tains OF folly. and the stolen loaf is
the molehiu This is what We are
driving at. for one item; The round
amount of S50,00O tons OF sugar
lha; the Great Western took out of
our beets last season was only %
per cent of what should have result
ed. lecause of losses in harvest and
sieu'ge of the beets. That is. If
35G.000 tons is 81 per cent, the eight
ger cent that escaped is over 10000
tons.
Think of it. 10000 tons of sugar
catered about these sugar COM
munit;es, AT Sc per bag that means
S3.6cU.00o slipped through our fing-
ers and was not picked up by any
wandcrer.
Worst OF all, much OF the loss could
nave been prevented by the growers
II is too much to expect that losses
of The kind named may be entirely
for extreme economies are
always wastetuI. and self-deaJructiye;
but let's consider now whether W.
may not make a slight reform in the
coming harvest. and incidentally
make some money for ourselves.
1t seems quite agreed that the Of
fective way to get the ultimate pound
Of sugar from the beets is to allow
fall ripzning in the fields of 4 sunny
climate. and then to put the beet thru
lhe mil with the least possible delay
and process. Many things interfere
With that program. chief of them be
ing frost and winter. but the nearer
that the practice can reach that prin-
..ipie. the more money there is to di-
vide.
The nearer the beet farmer and the
mill man can keep step in the process
sing OF the ripe beet the closer We are
10 the victory over Cuban raw. Let's
face it: That loss in the piles is
around Sl.35 per ton on our beets,
and nobody gets it. If you ana l fall
ly knew all We slouid about the in
dustry We would get the idea that the
greater part of that loss is charged to
l.. The entire sugar industry OF this
district lives on the beet. from the
field 10 the sugar broker, and what
ever the dividends have been or will
DC nobody draws anything from the
waste of these $4,000 tons.
Every day a ton OF beets lies in the
pile waiting to be sliced there is
loss of one pound of sugar. loss be-
ginning &c soon as removed from the
soil. Uuder certain condition of pill
ing the loss is more or less. according
to temperature, but long series OF
records show a rather steady rule for
the one pound per day per ton.
OF course it would cost far too
much to have mill capacity sufficient
to take all the beets directly to the
slieer. and much piling must be done
il any case. here in the district where
We have severe freezing, but to the
-Xtent that piling may be reduced ev-
erybody connected with the industry
must profit.
To take the view that these 80. 900
IONS Of lost sugar are no concern of
ours is strictly wrong. morally and
economically There is absolutely
no justification for the idea that the
.oas falls on the mill man as a whole
o. even in considerable part. in the
averages of the business; he loses
part. of course. but in the main the
charge is to the grower. as will be
found on going into the underlying
laws of industry.
Your Growers association is try
i-g to show a better and better grade
OF human seifishness. and it will fell
utterly in its purpose if it cannot
build better practices and better man
hood into the beet sugar business. No
man who sets forth to give salvation
and cause cures will yeach anything
but defeat unless he takes with him
the un,ending purpose to heal him