Show CULTIVATING SUGAR BEETS v I From Erom m Senator Smoot we have rec received iv d the full of the e 1 letter and data on tn the indirect nd b benc- benc Ji sugar sar beet culture prepared d by T r Q G ralmo end presented presente l to the senate b Senator 1 t t July Extracts from from it 1 V been pub pub- cl clin m in some of the newspapers including THE 1 GRA but there is is much iu iu it that we have in l print b before fore Much Iu 1 of f it t b is iz valuable th thc same sarno time the writer gives a away vay the fact p he has no actual knowledge of f g c nd iid J. J that a l he e is is PC not a p practical ac i a writ writer r. r We Ve l sa Say it is like a bookkeepers bookkeeper's attempt to- to tode to-de- de- de d business 1 i merchants great S i 7 jt rt t t th that t one opi of th the ado ador ad- ad g s o or planting sugar beets is is that that they so toll soH that b because beus of I their planting once S lir cara the flU soil of Europe produces S other othe 5 wheat heat barle barley oats a and potatoes twice i i's s theY did sixt ty ye years c rs rh ago but he lie no no- 5 Mells t why this this-is-so so c e. e except that it is necos- necos o ow the land deep in order to raise a good goodat ti ii at i is as i true trite of f vh wheat t is as it is of beets He lIe Hel l i explain tHat that- there that there are certain plants pc i l and and the clovers elover l. l that l t draw excessive int nl of nitrogen from froni the atmosphere which SO Vew life to the soil S S J n n he bewails the the fact he fact that the rich lands c S where f ugal f beets have been produced ej nany an years rears produce e twice the amount of i 4 o OJ vegetables that are raised on an average l same amount of land in the United States c 1 the he fa fact t that every farmer farmer in th th th-j 4 States I-States is forced force from tHe very nature f to o cultivate va te as best h he li can four times or 01 orthe orthe the hc amount m nt of ot land t that at th the Europea European o H first ho lio cannot 1 t get t help when s it nd when hen he lo s. s the tho he hel lIl times timos the wages in Europe an ani i 11 gives his men costs five times as s much S farmers farmer's food beyond the Atlantic says beets yield a a profit profi of 20 per acre acre in HI into v. v to the f firmer One man can tend twelve Jn lets if tho ground nd is not too weedy eed But Hut Butman man all in this thi countr country wants waniS quite 20 O p pr i r i f J his s work with board added ded of on onn estate yost ost perfect et ct 1 he c ever saw saw saw- saw has a beet beer c ta etory a flour mill and anti I brewery to absorb alsor ts of the e so soil i which has a g great cat dairy r head bead of attl for fer the dairy xen etc i V cj he is it g going irig again agin g n to rope to study car this ar this farm faint problem l 11 W Y hope llOpe h h. I. I 4 la he e will go to this same Hungarian tai if he lie can the gross proceeds ds of the thc ther bra r a year car and the number ot of If SW pre predict that he will vill find that theS the thc S from it ar are made in the sugar sugar factory and 5 the raw products do not lot pay fo Borers 1 jor rs that they would not half pay the theof l i limber of laborers in the States Th The Tha S. S j that they are working oxen is a sure sign that i n ny fly ways the they are ire as primitive as as they were yeats e rs ago He says they h heap ap up their ma- ma until it is perfectly rotted and then l ute it it If they do very much of its valin yalu r r evaporation If they wO would ld distribute it t tS S glands lands an and then at once plo plow it under and ani J y in n the ground it would be vastly bet- bet Chinese raise vastly astIr more pC per acre from land than is raised in Europe and the reason tuse a months month's w wages to a Chinese farm farn hand han handS S than a weeks week's lab labor r in Europe or about d ys' ys labor in the United States Slates tit it this paper is valuable because it cultivation and the absolute net nc ne- ne Jt t tf ot diversifying crops and the great S t ke it that tho the indirect object of the paper ff hye interest of the sugar manufacturers It ItS S w tl 14 add immensely to the value alue of the paper aper f fi pic l i would give the cost of a factor factory that would raS rat ra- ra S t c say y tons of beets da daily ly during the tho beet beetS S cason about ison-about about da days days and and s and the cost of convert- convert Wi jig the ilic beets into refined sugar ugar Of course that t be giving away ay a secret but if jf it were vere t known then beet raisers could could estimate w what wat at they they- Bought Bought- to receive c for t their beets and when sugar say say- sayat at t 5 3 cents per pound the public cou could r t understand i what V t would be a fair fah price for sugar and congress could determine how much tariff v. v 1 w would uld be fair to protect sugar makers against the S competition o of cane su sugar ar raised raise l in lands where I the tho laborers receive only pauper wages |