SIZE OF SUGAR BEETS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3600, 21 November 1905, Page 4

SIZE OF SUGAR BEETS.

’/ Tine Small Kind# Are Rlche«t in Saccharine Matter and the Moat Profitable lor the Grower. v . . At a discussion upon sugar beets re- , ccntly among the members of a Wiscon- ’ fin.farmers' institute Prof. W. A. Hen- \ xy* dean, of the Wisconsin agricultural ‘college, said, concerning the size of k beets; “The best sugar beets weigh 7 about two pounds each. Do not try to grow, great, large‘beets, thinking they ; are the best. Years ago when I was s', looking up the beet sugar question in ' California I had a conversation with somp of the officials of the Southern Pacific Eailroad company in their office

ia San Francisco. I was urging upon them the importance of beet sugar production in California. Col. Crocker, the leader, showed much indifference, sayri’.’ing that he had lost $50,000 in trying to promote this very enterprise. I told him that that was not necessarily a v, j r r. ;:s on why beet sugar production could not yet be 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 30pound's each. As soon as he told me this I replied: ‘There, Col. Crocker, is one of the reasons your factory failed. You 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.’ ”