Show talk ON beels I 1 the tee t sugar at the fan institute gait california al exp es addressed abe bem professor fowler fowler of le aa baity eaid that land choum b vety deep in order to prepare blantine pl antine beets it should also abe J thoron bly harrowed 1 u ivore the cronne anely as possible bieh caiti ration was ot sugar beet culture rt uld be thoroughly hoed and two hoefar ee were better than one tire more th ground waa stirred around the roote the better it ana tor waa rio tool made tant would 1 as well as the band hoe and the farmers should understand tbt in anier to make a success of lett culture a great deal ot hard work would be required B ltd in france aad where land had heen devoted to fragar it raised the value bof be land in every inet arce contin nei fowler can safely eay stat ia not instance in which this banol eo non it hae been said that sagar exhausted abo land this fwu to Is ft 14 cely that sugar bee letb witald maiee t tro value of land fowler that it bad been put into the heads of alie farmers that bett raising would injure their land but thie wae not it was true of course lufte if the farmere went right along and raised beets year after year on the same land without returning the beet tops to the around the soil woul ox this was the farmere could grow there wae no guowa crop that would not iu time exhaust the ground if it waa grown continuously without fertilization time was it would be necessary to fertilize wheat land the augar in a beet was the speaker taki pure carbon and the beet derived its carbon from the atmosphere through its leares the carbons that ia the augar did not come from the ground aad tl v consequence cone quence was that if the leaves and the pulp from which the had been extracted were returned to abe ground all the chemicals which bad been drawn from the soil would giren baeff to it 91 dont you take any stock in abe proposition that beet culture ie going to ruin your land exclaimed professor fowler it is decidedly not true in stead it adds to the value of your land and enables you to farm with a far larger profit than you otherwise bouw wouw for instance suppose that instead of making a profet of 15 or 20 an acre out of your beets you jast came out even the next year you plant wheat the crop of wheat so planted will be double what it would have been had you not in the previous year cultivated conr lanil for sugar becic you see beet culture fives you two chances far profit the beet crop itself Is profitable and the next year your land will prodica pr twofold two fold yield of wheat BS PROFIT in aery case known the man who I 1 produced the raw material professor foler declared was bo man who got the least money this was true all over the world the manufacturer always got the big end of it the coal and iron miners were working for wanes while the manufacturers were growing rich the result was that the farmer should as far as be could become a manufacturer beets great value for fead and if the farmer found that he could not get a proper price for them at the factory he could manufacture them into beef by geedin them to his stock the farmers should own own factories did they do this they would become wealthy because the profits in manufacturing sugar were simply enormous HE LACKS faier the farmer could it he would tako aliese profits for himself but there was little danger that he would do so you might show him a fortune in eight if le would hut operate cooperate co with his neighbors erect a factory and put in a capable manager but he would not do it the why he would not do it was ho would not trust thai neighbor on the other side of the fence he had less faith in the man whose farm adjoined his own than he had in some fellow cu the other side of the continent lie would not go into partnership with men in his own township whom he had known for years but aul wul angly buthis trust in men whom he bar never seen and who were ia noway bound up in welfare this being the case he farmer had better do the next beak thing and taking advantage advant aga of the profits in sugar beet culture raise beets for the factories which were being rapidly established athe state |