Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 21 November 1913 — Page 8

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GOOD CROP FOR INDIANA.

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ROYAL

Powder

Tha nnlv Bakins Powder made

with Royal Grape Cream oi Tartar made from grapes

Insures healthful and

delicious food for every

home every day

Safeguards your food against

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General Merchandise. Shoes and Clothing, Dry Goods, Notions, Staple and FancyGroceries.

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ErivE us a Call. Both Phones. Pe Delivery West Sixth Street.

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THE General Manager was presentingplans for an extension of the factory to the company's directors at Detroit. He found that he had left an estimate sheet in his desk at the factory. He called up the factory on the Bell Long Distance Telephone. His assistant read the figures to him' and the direöors were able to at without delay. Annoying delays are avoided by die use of the Bell Telephone.

CUMBERLAND TEUSPE

1 & TEUEGRAPH COMPANY

INCORPORATED

Prize Offers from Leading Manufacturers BooK on patents. '"Hints to inventors." "Inventions necked:" "Why'somc inventors.fail." Send rough sketch or jnodeljor $trch-of "Patent Office' records. .Our. Mr. Greeley was formerlyActing Commissioner of Patents, and, as such had Ml charged jthe U. S. patent Office..

GfiEELEY &.M9INTIRE Patent Attorneys

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Farmers Find Profit In Sugar Btt and Increased Yield of Other Crops. itovr sn;nu lx"jt growing in Indiana hns wor'.fd out thus far in actual practice t ia.v HCf-n by a few instances' of I.)." . : . i:.:ui.s who have planted h in ri'ip have kept a record f co. ;j:-f:il.il. L:igard of Monroe put fv.-i-nt.v acres into su.arar beets, lie tjaMuj:ni sr. con tons per acre, a Iii lie average crop, and uadf y ri.Jr . or $40 an acre.

John il.viv'y f uiu;"uu got a .crop of

nimnuen tnvn tu tho iu:re from a field of iblrif vi .ii-.v. Hi prolit after deducting i?A4::s'.s as $tt2 an acre. This. thi kuUI. va;s Uyg biggest prolit he had tivein.v.le mi iiri;iing land. Fred Lsvh'of Khri.'ton kept a -careful account - of UirJ sliff : rent eivps. LTis corn uetteu a profit of $28 -an acre. his oats $l;-r. and twelve :i:ii ;t hah acres of sugar hitts gave him $rJ an acre above ex i Au.i. This, ho said, proved

to Ink sntts.'at'tiun Lliat "bccl growing J

is.a money mal. er for !ho farmer, aside

f&m the vast amount of good his lud tferfves: fi;'n l)i'-s r.nil Ilse iVs..jvi

scieu;:.:c rnrmnig uvy icach Innr Fifteen a res in s.ra: l"s a yield of cvfn tons'Io Ihc m ie on tlic farm of :.. :. ilrs'iv .f Monroe. . .Mr. r.nsh !e.;:.v ! f .:..t he was well pleas

ed with t! i.iucoine of his Ursl season

wittf'th- crop.

"Vve had an unusual rainfall here

abouts," lie said, "which hrjuVed all our crops, and 1 feel sv,ro that with

the usual weather I conhl almost dou-

ble4my tonnage-por acre. As U was. 1 madö a profit of aboit acre.

and) although 1 have nut had any per

sonal experience of the good the land

receives from enltivarinT beets. I have

seen other farni'.M's who have almost doubled their ont crop by rotation with

beets."

William Caesar of Preble had raised

beets in Michigan for seven years be

fore coming to Indiana. He said that the rainy season of last year did not

give a fair test of the Indiana soil, yet

he found his new land better fitted for the crop than ihe farm he had left in

Michigan. Even with last year's rainy weather he averaged thirteen tons of

beets to the acre and-looked for from fifteen to twenty in the coming season.

He planted fourteen acres last year and this spring will plant forty.

"I know fron? actual experience," he

said, "that a farmer can harvest from twenty-five to thirty bushels more oats

per acre on the huuljMie has sown to beets than he con kf'be fore growing them." L. A. Thomas of Monroe, who was growing boots for the second time last year, said that his beet crop had dropped from twenty tnns to the acre to eleven on .account of the unfavorable weather, lint (hat W-reiV he had made a big pnsiM not witlistan Mng. The oats which lie planted on his- former beet land yielded doable the amount he had boon accustomed -to harvest because, of the adtie-i fertility of the soil produced by beet cultivation.

WHY NOT MAKE

OUR OWN SO

Would Save $100,000,000 Yearly, Says Secretary Wilson

SUGAR BEETS THE REMEDY.

We Could Raise Enough of Them In One State, Declares the Secretary, of Agriculture, to Supply the Needs of the Whole Nation. By JAMES WILSON, Secretary of Agriculture. One would think that we had enough sunshine and wind and rain in this country for all our needs, but at pres

ent we are pajTing out to foreign nations the good round sum of $100,000,000 each year for these thiugs. This amount slips away from us for our annual importations of sugar, which comes simply from the carbon dioxide of the atmosphere. There is no reason why we should uot save this amount for oiir own people, our farmers and laborers, and so on. We could grow enough sugar beets in a single state to supply the needs of the entire nation. 1 hope some day we shall grow all the sugar we need right here at home. But at present we are paying this enormous sum each year to the cane producer In the tropics, employing tjie cheapest labor under a foreign flag. When I first entered the cabinet as Secretary of Agriculture under President McKinley in 18Ö7 I had been connected with the Iowa State Agricultural college for six years, and out there we had made experiments which taught us the great value of the sugar beet not only for its sugar, but as an

aid to the other crops and in its by

products as a food for the stock.

We made experiments with all sorts

of root crops potatoes, sugar beets, turnips, and so on to ascertain which would be the most profitable for the Iowa farmers and dairymen. We had

a-large herd of dairy cows, and we

tested these different vegetables on

the cows to learn their effect in the production of milk and butter. We found that we could not get good results from turnips, potatoes and cab-

SUGAR EEET INDUSTRY. -. Wages and Prices of Beets Much Higher In 11 c United State. The difference between the conditions under which beet sugar is produced id the Uni teil .States and i'.tiropo is

strikingly shown by a report ju.a published as a Uni'.ed Stales senate document. Summaruiua 117 reports from various European cou.diies. v:;I. document shows that (." cents a da., was the highest rate eaned by men working in. the European 1'cet iicMs. while

40 cents was the average rale. In all

the iSuropeau count rie-;. however, the

greater part of the field labor is done

by oi::on and children at wages ranging from 10 eents a day for children

In Russia to JiO cents a day for .women in ifenmark. To thoao poor laborers the 2.i50 a, day. which represents the average earnings of field workers in the X'nitod Slates, must appear a prihctely income. Amonj; the factory workers engaged in I5d.et sujiar production the difference is equally striking. The men working in the factories of the great European sugar making countries. France and Germany, receive an average dally wage of S4 cents, according to official figures published by their own governments. The average American wage for employees in the beet sugar factories, 2.01) a day, is more than three times as. great. Likewise the farmers who grow the beets in Europe receive only 4 to. $4.50 a ton for their crops, although they pay four to five times as much rent for their land as the American farmer does. While those figures serve to show

why it is that Europe can, produce sugar cheaper than the United States. It is an interesting fact that the only important country of Europe where the people are able to buy sugar cheaper than in the United States is England. Even in England the price paid for the sugar most generally used Is as high as the prices paid here. On the whole, the lot of an American sugar beet grower or worker must be,, considered preferable to that of his European competitor.

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Root Crop Evtry Fourth Year. Few persons realize that a large portion, of Germany is but a sandy plain and her enormous crop yields due to the fact that for each three acres of cereals grown her farmers raise one acre of hoed crops, thus producing a root crop on each field every fourth year. They grow sugar beets wherever possible and are the greatest producen of this vegetable in the world. In sections where there are no factories to which they enn sell their sugar beets they grow beets or other root crop and food them to utock.

by Harris & Ewins. JAMES WILSON.

bages because of a deleterious acid

that affected the butter, but from

sugar beets we got a fine quality of butter. The importance of this is in

the fact that the farmer needs to use i a root crop in his rotation to clear the ground. The cultivation required

by such a crop Improves the yield of all succeeding crops. Europe had learned the value of the beet, and the northern continental nations were making their own sugar from it and by using it in rotation with other crops had been obtaining surprisingly big yields per acre. But here we had been backward In realizing its importance. The year I came into the cabinet the United States had produced only 29,000 tons of beet sugar. I managed to get public spirited persons to contribute beet seed to begin investigations, and wo found that the two northern tiers of states had the most favorable conditions for beet culture. We made elaborate inquiries, sent seed in all directions and had the beets sent back to us for testings.

At the same time we starteü encouraging beet growing in the north

we began to stimulate the growing of rice in the south. And I anticipated that by this time our farmers would be growing enough of each of these products for our needs. But, while they grow today substantially as much rice as is consumed in the United States, the beet crop furnishes onlya small proportion of our sugar. It is more difficult to educate our farmers to beet raising. It is a more complicated form of activity. Last year our sugar beet crop netted C95.455 tons of sugar, worth ?G5,505,000. Of this the farmers received about $20,350,000 for the beets, a fraction over 40 per cent The beet tops brought $3 an acre, amounting to $1,35S,47S;

the pulp (left after the sugar is ex

tracted from the beets) was worth $8,C33,10S and the molasses, a byproduct of the sugar, $1,211,030. So the total value of the crop was ovor 170,000,000. There la no more profitable crop than Dm lUf&r bet

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OLD EXCUSES,

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