92 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Question: Do you agree to send a family and pay the room 

 rent? 



Mr. Moore : As a general thing, the home they live in is gener- 

 ally furnished by the grower. It is through the warm season, and 

 you don 't have to fight the cold. We have had no trouble in finding 

 houses to put these people into. 



Question : Do they ever live in tents ? 



]\Ir. Moore : Sometimes they do. 



Question : What kind of families do you get ? 



Mr. Moore : We had some good German families we got. For 

 several years we have been taking this help to J\Iichigan. For the 

 last few years there has been quite an emigration of Russians into 

 Michigan, and for that reason we have the pick of the families; 

 we get the best families. As a general thing a farmer will take an 

 acre or two of beets. We have had any number of farmers tell us 

 they were able to handle one or two or three acres, and it does not 

 interfere with their other work. The beet growers get the pulp 

 without any extra charge. That makes a very fine stock food, the 

 farmer paying the freight. 



Question: Does it come out dry? 



]\Ir. Moore : When it comes out there is a moisture in it, but 

 it can be covered up, and with the weather we have, it will keep 

 aU through the winter. There is more or less moisture to it ; it does 

 not become perfectly dry. It might freeze on the outside on the 

 pile ; the cattle will eat it, even in a frozen state. 



Prof. Curtiss: About what acreage have you now? 



Mr. Moore : We figured on having 5,000 acres. We failed on 

 that this year, it having been a wet season. In some places the 

 weeds got so bad they outgrew the beets. The beet is a very hardy 

 plant. 



Question: You asked the question as to whether the fertile 

 Iowa soil couldn't produce more than the sandy soil and ridges 

 of Michigan; isn't an admixture of sand the most favorable? 



Mr. Moore : Not particularly. Secretary Wilson claims we 

 could produce 20 tons of beets. We have had a great faith in 

 Iowa, and have thought if IMichigan could produce beets, Iowa cer- 

 tainly could, because we have claimed all the time our soil was 

 richer and better. 



