Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1902 — Beet Sugar Proposition. [ARTICLE]

Beet Sugar Proposition.

Prof. H. W.-Wiley, formerly of Purdue university, now at the head of the government's chemistry in the agricultural department, according to a special dispatch in the Indianapolis News, believes there are immense possibilities in sugar beet growth in Indiana. Says Mr. Wiley: “Twenty-five beet sugar factorieo in northern Indiana would add 150000,(MX) to the manufacturing ca, itai of the state. They wu J double the farm land value iu t'.e beet growing section, and increase the profits of farmers 100 per cent. “The conditions of northern Indiana are as well suited to sugar baet growing as is- Michigan, where great success has been attained. Five years ago there was one factory in Michigan; now there are twenty-fix e. If one factory were established in Indiana, it would be an object lesson which would quickly be followed. The commercial organizations of Indiana should interest themselves in the beet sugar proposition."