| Show THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY now that the production of sugar from beets beete la Is about to become an established industry in utah territory any literature pertaining to the sub subject eject should be acceptable in iowa and in nebraska Neb rabka the question quention of sugar raising is becoming one of prime import at grand island there is a journal entitled the beet sugar enterprise entirely devoted to the beet sugar issue M A lunn its ita editor has a very instructive tive letter in the davenport democrat relating to his hie special study the beet he says that the first requirement for khe he success of a beet sugar factory is a sufficiency of beets to get th this Is sufficiency the farmers must have full and complete knowledge as to the beat method of planting hu banding and harvesting the beet the main object of the farmer must be how to obtain the beets which con tain the largest per of sugar the distance between the rows and between the several plants must be determined ter mined by the fertility the humidity and aridity of the soil land must be kept perfectly clean of weeds fall ploughing sloughing hing is recommended and Is a system of harrowing and second plough ing deep into the soil will help to produce both quantity and quality of the beat of course farmers must be governed by local peculiarities of soil and climate as no general rule would apply to the whole country with regard to the profits arising from beet growing mr lunn says farmers are desirous of knowing in advance the number of tons per acre that would be considered an average crop in an ordinary season I 1 have reason to believe that fifteen tons should safely be relied upon and will give the following basis of calculation if the beets are planted in rows a distance of ei eighteen eteen inches inches apart and thinned out to six inches the row there will be in one acre and allowing a discount of plants for various causes pro preventing venting ma we will still have remaining plants should these average but one pound each at this would give pounds or 25 tons this estimate now could be reduced forty per cent and still have fifteen tons per acre at the california scale of prices which mr will follow next year the beet grower will receive 4 per ton for beets that analyze fourteen per cent of sugar and fifty cents per ton additional for each one per cent of sugar above fourteen per cent requiring a efficient coefficient co purity of about 80 the average percentage of sugar in the beet for the past two years in nebraska has been above 16 per cent and from my mv knowledge of the soil of iowa I 1 thin think leit it is equally as good thus it can be seen there is great profit in growing beets at these prices providing only 15 tons per acre are grown and that the expense in growing them including the delivery to the factory should even amount to the sum of 30 per acre which has been the cost by several farmers who kept an exact account of the various expenses connected with growing beets hei e the past season mr lunn advises farmers to go into beet raising in an experimental manner he would have them cultivate small I 1 patches I 1 in a various soils and note all the particulars of gro growth ath and treatment fn an this way no great expense nor heavy beavy low loss would result and the amount of knowledge gained would be invaluable when collated and classified as it certainly would where a factory in the hands of progressive men to is established |
