Show THE SUGAR INDUSTRY IN NEBRASKA THE manufacture of sugar is a live subject in utah consee consequently bently any information associated with it is of local interest the omaha world affer herald aad contains a lengthy correspondence I 1 in n relation to the operations of the norfolk beet sugar company of Norf norfolk lk nebraska from which we reproduce the following the elkhorn valley is most beautiful bulat at this particular time of the year when it Is taking on its ita spring garments and it seems as it if every farmer was alive as we ride up this beautiful valley and see me then them plowing and preparing their ground for the various crops they propose to put in all around thA factory is just one great field of beets I 1 counted forty six alx teams at work from tte lle factory building yesterday morning some plowing some harrowing others planking and preparing the ground for the seed others with seeders actively at work putting the seed in where the ground had been made ready arvil the company has haa spared no money nor effort to make this thin year a telling one in the agricultural part of this great industry for they realise nealise that this is the great rrt question to be solved and they have supplied the farmers who have been unwilling nii illing to purchase at reasonable figures f with a most complete and perfect seeder which will seed about fifteen acres per them diem in a very satisfactory manner after this comes the cultivator which is another new implement and which is a very perfect contrivance for sugar beet culture materially saving in cost and labor serious obstacles obstacle 4 heretofore in the way of this crop other agricultural companies are now busily at work in perfecting a harvester which is expected to take the beet out oi of the ground and cut the top off thus it is believed that in a very short time possibly this year but certainly within a very limited period beet culture will become much simplified ai a compared with present and past methods in europe where this industry has thrived to such a great extent good beet land is worth from wo to an acre and even then has to have some S 6 5 to 80 expended each and every year for fertilizers while hile in this great state of ours we have the richest land that produces a beet varying from 8 tv tu 8 per cent more in saccharine matter than any in europe and grown on land that can be had even here in this section at from 30 to 40 an acre and when located at some distance from a railroad station can be had at very much lower figures so that this new in industry bids fair to bring to us a great many immigrants secretary hamilton has told me that the french people doubt that the sugar beet can be produced in this country as rich as has been already demonstrated and adds that a large and wealthy corporation po ration in france has stated in a recent communication to him that there were several hundred families that would like to come to norfolk and buy twenty and thirty acre plots of ground for this purpose if they could be assured that the bees can be raised as rich as we here know they can be produced so that this new and great industry that h is s come to our state means more i 1 han ban would appear at first glance it means a great influx not only from all parts of the united states but froth from the sugar producing section of europe it means mat abat instead of a farmer producing a crop that is more or less dependent upon chicago specula tors he will produce a crop that bat i is contracted to be sold before planted and on which ath our yankee ingenuity he can make from five to fifteen times as much per sere acre as on any other crop he i now produces and then fain in the pulp that is partially E ven en free to the farmer producing the ets eta is something that must not be overlooked for it is a well known tact fact and has been largely commented upon pon afe je j e bently by some of our moat authoritative authorius auth orits agricultural papers that hog bog cholera is absolutely unknown where beet pul pulp has h been fed this alone were facto factories in sufficient number established in our western country would save millions milli 0 na of dollars to the farmers being located as we are without minerals timber coal or river navigation such local factories mean more than those who do not think seriously of the question can comprehend for the soil produces the raw material which is manufactured into a marketable article and sold out of the state or out of the locality where the factory is situated thus bringing money into both which necessarily makes a prosperous state of affairs while other factories simply give employment to the idle hands bands of the town and use only raw material produced in other sections and brought there for manufacture |