The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-09-26
Record Beet Yield
Seen by Sugar Man
CHASKA FACTORY OFFICIAL ES.
INMATES MINNESOTA CROP TO
BE WORTH ABOUT $780, 900.
HARVEST is NOW STARTING.
OVER 500 ACRES AROUND NOR
GAN WHICH WILL REQUIRE
ABOUT 125 FEIGHT CARS.
(From Morgan Messenger)

(From Morgan Messenger)
The sugar beet harvest is starting
around Morgan this week. Some
hauling started Monday and loads
of beets will be coming to town in
great numbers. The factory at
Chaska will open next Thursday,
September 9th and on account of
the great power loader here which
facilitates shipping it is probable
that beets from Morgan will be among
the first to go through the plant.
The factory at Chaska will have a
long run this year as there is a
greatly increased acreage over the
state. Last year there was only a
trife in excess of 10000 acres of
beets for sugar planted in Minnesota.
This year some 1900 farmers in
Southern and Central Minnesota have
planted beets and the acreage has
probably increased forty per cent
over last year. Value placed at ST.
100000.
Farmers are getting interested in
sugar beets as a profitable factor in
diversified farming Dairy experts
and experiment farm leaders are adj
vocating that farmers devote some
acreage to sugar beets and reduce
acreage of small grains. There are
numerous reasons for this. Sugar is
largely imported product, with the
domestic sugar beet crop furnishing
only the smallest fraction of the
supply, which is a reasonable assur-
ance of good prices. furthermore the
imported sugar crop is largely in the
hands of centralized concerns who
control importing sufficiently so that
the maret is not depressed with huge
SURPRISES as is the case with many
of our agricultural products at times.
In other words in respect to sugar
beets the farmer profits under sys-
tenn that does him no good in many
other respects. Under the selling
system in Minnesota the raiser of
sugar beets benefits from the price
of sugar over a period of several
months, instead of being compelled
to take certain price that may pre-
vail at the particular time when he
markets his crops which is usually
the same time that other producers
market theirs. Also agricultural men
look at the matter from the benefit to
the land. Sugar beets rest the land
from the old grind and also the cult
walton and wedding of the beets
cleans up the land. This is profit
able element furthermore while rails
ing a crop that brings from fair to
premium returns, the acreage of other
crops is reduced and the value OF
those crops thereby enhanced. Oh
course the sugar beet industry is
hardly more than in it's infancy in
Minnesota so that the latter benefits
is negligible as yet.
The Minnesota Sugar Co. will fur.
nish $1,000,000 towards a second fac
tory to cost $1,5O0,OOO which is to be
erected at East Grand Forks. This
is for the benefit of Red River Valley
farmers. The company expects to
contract $4,000 acres for sugar beets
in that territory and the proposed
plant will handle 800 to 1000 tons OF
beets each twenty-four hours unit
The sugar beet crop of Redwood
county has been boosted this year
In 1922 there were 345 acres of beets
for sugar in the county. This year
there is nearly twice that amount
around Morgan. On account of the
large local acreage the Minnesota
Sugar Company has made $4,000
investment at Morgan to handle the
shipping. The company anticipates q
large acreage here over a period Of
years. The company bought piece
of land adjoining the side track run.
ming to the old flour mill and this
private side track about 500 feet long
will be devoted exclusively to sugar
beet shipping. A huge steel loading
apparatus with scales and steel biz
has been erected to weigh, dump anc
elevate the beets to the car. Thu
beet hauler is relieved of any shovel
ing in the process. A building wa:
moved onto the land to serve as al
office and also as a warehouse fol
machinery during the winter season
Field Manager Pettis declares tina
the land around Morgan is as pro
ductive for beet raising as any in the
state; better than much of it, and hi
believes that the production from sea
son to season and the returns from
the crop will be such that the bee