The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-11-17
there to the disadvantage OF our own
stock raising industry at home.

there to the disadvantage OF our own
stock raising industry at home.
For several successive years the
feeders Of this locality have won
silver loving cups at the fat stock
shows at Salt Lake City and Ogden
and Blackfoot has won the reputa-
ton Of having the best feed, the
cheapest feed, and the best condi-
lions for fattening stock of any
place in the northwest, and we have
the trophies to show for 1t. When
feeders get plenty OF beet pulp to
combine with the cheap hay and the
cheap grain raised in this locality,
they could very successfully fatten
their stock, but when they ran out Of
beet pulp in January or February,
and had to substitute some other
materials for beet pulp, 1t was a dis
appointment. The disposition was
for the feeders to take their herds
into other counties to feed them
where there was an abundance OF
beet pulp raised partly in those To-
calities, and then supplemented by
the trainloads shipped in from Black
foot. In vain have the feeders and
other local citizens protested against
this injustice. The sugar company
has always given us a soft answer
and continued to ship the beets away
then the following spring when they
had come among us and asked us to
increase our beet acreage we have
forgiven them for these other mat
tiers, accepted their excuses and have
SO far as is practical increased their
beet acreage only to see the beets
shipped away again the following
autumn, and our factory closed
prematurely.
There are at the present time
hundreds of tons Of alfalfa standing
in the field that was carried over
from last year which might have
been marketed had there been plenty
of beet pulp available. This year
there are other thousands Of tons Of
alfalfa added to the already super
fluous crop Of 1920, that is not sale
able because the herds are not here
to be fed on the pulp and hay and
cheap grain. II feeders cannot get
the pulp here they are not likely to
buy our hay. and grain and the al
ready dull market has been made
more dull.
It used to be considered that this
matter of shipping the beets out Of
this cou1by did not injure anyone.
but the beet growers and the men
who fed stock here, but it is now
made clear that it Injuries those who
never raised any beets or who never
fattened any stock, but all who
raised grain and alfalfa find their
own markets partly destroyed by this
A man with plenty OF
hay on his farm can scarcely sell 1t
at any price now because there are
50 few herds or animals to be fed
and fattened in this locality. Farm
ers have been hesitating about plant
Ing sugar beets at all in the last two
Or three years. Many who have
planted them are declaring that they
will not do so again unless the con-
1itiOns are improved, and now that
.hese things are being done to
further injure, these other associated
Industries there are few people who
are going to look favorably upon the
planting Of sugar beets for next year,
Ind few people not engaged >in actu-
lily raising sugar beets who will feel |
ike encouraging others to raise |
hem. The sugar company say they |
ire fighting for existence, but there |
$ no reason why the farmers, the |
eeders and others should be handi-
appel in their legitimate operations
md be further embarrassed just be-
ause the sugar company is having a
lard time to manage their own at
airs.
The sugar company on their part
ontend that they can get forty or I
fly pounds more sugar per ton of
eets out of the Lincoln or Sugar
lily factories than they can the
'lackfoot factory, because Of the fact
hat they use what they call the
teffens process. They say that
rom last years operations in their
arious factories they have an enor-
lous amount of syrup left over,
hitch can only be utilized at about
Z ton, as stock food or used in
onnection with other beets in thel
teffens plant could be worked upl
ito sugar and that they cannot at
ord to lose all of that syrup when
. is possible to ship in beets to use it
18th.
Mark Austin, their agricultural
in conversation with
representative of The Idaho Re-
Tuesday stated that the
eet pulp is not so much in demand
his year because of the fact that hay |
nd grain are SO cheap, and that a L
ollar invested in grain at the
resent low prices will be really Of
lore value in fattening stock, than
dollar invested in beet pulp. When