Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — Shelby Sugar Drips. [ARTICLE]

Shelby Sugar Drips.

Michigan Sugar Beet.. Shelby is booming. The American construction company has a corps of engineers laying out the grounds for the sugar factory. Four carloads pf sugar beet seed arrived from Germany last week and is being sept out to the beet growers as fast as possible. Messrs. Sohriver, Myres, Burk and Harrison are rushing the work on their beet ground south of town, They will put in 500 acres. J. A. Fuller went to Chicago last week to buy several more teams. He has a contract to break seven hundred acres of pasture sod for the sugar company. It will be used for sugar beets next season, Mr. Harrison has just finished hauling 9,QOQ pounds of beet seed to their farm. He thinks there will be enough to plant a pretty good sised garden. There will be a large number of Michigan men employed in the sugar factory; Mr. Brystlebout, former superintendent of the Michigan Sugar company at Bay City, will be superintendent.

D. Bass, of Bay City, Michigan, has accepted a position in the agricultural department of the Central Sugar company. He has raised beets on a large scale in Michigan for the last three years and will be a good man for the factory. He will put in eighty acres for himself north of Shelby.