SIZE OF SUGAR BEETS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3581, 5 October 1905, Page 4

SIZE OF SUGAR BEETS.

The Small Kinds Are Ulchent In Saccharin '■ Mutter and the Most Profj...*blc for the Grower.

At a discussion upon sugar beets recently among - the members of a Wisconsin farmers’ institute Prof, W. A, Henry, dean of the Wisconsin agricultural college, saixl, concerning the size of beets: “The best sugar b'oets -weigh about two pounds each. Do not try to grow great, jarge beets, thinking they are the best. Vear.v ago when I was looking up the beet sugar question in California I had a conversation with some of the officials of the Southern Pacific railroad company in their office in ? • . co. 1 'eg upon unci. . . . .-.ci-, the leader, showed much inoWerence, saying that he had' lost $50,000 in trying to promote this very enterprise. I told him that that was not necessarily a reason why beet sugar production could not rot bo profitable. Later on in our conversation, when talking about California’s wonderful productions, he said that in his experiments he had grown beets that weighed 20 or 30 pounds each. As soon as ho told me this I replied: ‘There, Col. Crocker, is one of the reasons your factory failed. Yon thought large beets were good beets, when in truth they are poor beets, and helped wreck your factory. You should have tried to produce small beets, but many to the acre; and such, if grown properly, would have been rich in -sugar, and these would have brought you success instead of failure.’ ”