SIZE OF SUGAR BEETS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3617, 27 February 1906, Page 4

SIZE OF SUGAR BEETS.

Th* Small Kinds Are Richest In 9nocluulne Matter* anil the Most Profl..,ble for the tiroiver,

At a discussion upon sugar beets re-

cently among’ the members of a Wisconsin farmers’ institute Prof. W. A. Henry, dean of the Wisconsin agricultural college, said, concerning the size of beets; “The best sugar beets weigh about two pounds each. Do not try to grow great, large beets, thinking they are the best. Years ago when I was

looking up the beet sugar question in

California I had a conversation with same of the officials of the Southern Pacific Kailroad company in their office 'in San Francisco. I was urging upon them the importance of beet sugar production in California. Col. Crocker, the leader, showed much indifference, say-

ing 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 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 30 pound’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 proper-

| ly, would have been rich in sugar, and | these would have brought you success !i instead of fJtlure.’ ”