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Show BEET SUGAR ITEMS. Interesting News from Various Sources. Mr. Henry T. Oxnard in his Bftccwft before tho Ways and Means commute' says: "It is of course of material importance im-portance to consider whether wo can produce suirar in sufficient quantity within u iH-nfeonnhle timo for home consumption. con-sumption. Tho answer to this must primm inly depend upon thu question whether we have the soil and the climate requisite to obtain deaiied results. re-sults. That wo have has been dcmon strated by tho investigation of practical sugar pioducera, as well as by Professor Wiley, of the Agiicultural Dopartmont and is proven by the seven factories now in actual operation in California, Utah Nebraska, Ne'Me.ico and Wisconisn' producing 7,000,000 pounds of beet sugar per annum. Aa to our soil we have a bulletin from Piofessor Wiley, of the Agricultural Department, ample evidence to sustain the assertion tha t we have beot sugar soil in Colorado, California, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa Kentucky, Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Ohio, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconisn and Wyoming. In view of this fact and with the lesson taught ua by Europe. Brazil. Argentina and Sweden before us, and with thc advance we have made, it would bo almofit criminal to throw awav our greaiopper-'Uimty7lrseem"3,Hs greaiopper-'Uimty7lrseem"3,Hs mo that '.wcTmay learn something by looking to the production of sugar abioad. Thoro is haidly a civilized nation on earth, except our own, capablo of producing itaown sugar that docs not do so, even to little Sweden, tho Argentine Republic, Repub-lic, Brazil and Queensland. Within a very few years Sweden has come to ox-port ox-port beet augar, Nationa havo been libcial to rcacii these results. Even Bulgaria haa a duty of 4 centa on augar and a bounty of 4 centa to home producer pro-ducer for ten years. Wo Bhould not delude oui selves with the idea that tho! live or six States hnt may bo producing sugar aro tho only onea interested in the question. On tho contrary, tho mechanic, the laborer, the merchant and the farmers in many States, aside from the cane and beot bolts, aro deeply inteie8ted,and especiallyfor machinery, coal, coak, limestone, etc., and railways would a'so obtain a greater volume of tiaffic. And'' we have tho nd vantage that wo can stmt in at a point which it has taken Get many half a century to i each. A Chicago' augar lofining company is reported to be now turning out a white powdered sugar made wholly from corn, claimed to bo equal to anything on the mmket. It ia not uf quite so lino a grain as the powderul cane sugar, but that is said to be an advantage, as it does not soioadily beconio lumpy; and its sac-I sac-I chat inu strength ia said to be ninety-sovon, ninety-sovon, as to nincty-oight of powdciwl cane suear.' This now sugar lias been pift upon tho market at somo five-eights cents less than tho trust prioo. If all tho expectations of tho patentee are mot , it will revolutionize tho augar business ' of the United States. This ia particularly particular-ly important to the west, which produces tho com. No othor section should be penuitted to manufacture our raw material for ua. Denver Fiold and Farm , Tho Watsonvjllo and Lehi augar factories' closed their run the same day. Another criticism on our campaign to H secure for the American farmer tho homo market for $100,000,000 worth of H sugar now imported, ia that the Ameri- can augar industry can't bedoveloped H vyithout "protection." Well, sinco H Gladstone,' the arch frec-tr.vler of them H all, camo out against export bounty- H fostered Gorman sugars, tliis ciiticism H has nothing loft to stand on. A Denver H paper that waa howling for augur factories now says protection to Ameri- H can growers of beets and cane will put H up tho piico of augar unless tho volume of currency is increased. Now if wo could keep tit homo tho $100,000,000 that go out of tho couutiy every year H for sugar, that ought to help thc mono- iil tury question. Orange Judfi Farmer. fl |