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In Diversified Farming- by Irrigation lies the Salvation oi Agriculture. 



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THE THREATENED EUROPEAN BOY- 

 COTT. 



The best thing that could happen to 

 this country would be to have carried 

 out the threat of a Paris newspaper an 

 economic and industrial alliance by 

 European nations against the United 

 States. Probably the festive Frenchman 

 who made the threat has never carefully 

 studied our list of imports from Europ- 

 ean countries in comparison with a list 

 of products in euse and in p<tsw in the 

 various States of the Union. With cop- 

 per from Brazil and tea from Japan, 

 China and a few other things purchased 

 wholly outside of Europe, we should get 

 along very well, and in six months 

 wouldn't feel the change. In this con- 

 nection it should be recalled that our 

 total foreign commerce is but about four 

 per cent or the entire commerce of the 

 country. That is to say ninety-six per 

 cent is internal commerce and only four 

 per cent, external trade. Therefore, 

 come ahead gentlemen. Don't hesitate 

 a moment about forming your European 

 commercial alliance to boycott the United 

 States! 



WASHINGTON FOR SUGAR BEETS. 



And now Washington is claiming to 

 be the banner sugar beet state. 



Prof. Elton Fulmer of Pullman in a 

 recent bulletin from the experiment 

 station writes as follows: In order to 

 determine the adaptability of the various 

 sections of the State, seed was distrib- 

 uted and samples were tested from ten 

 different sections of the State. The ex- 

 periments were made in a large way in 

 fact, we may say practically on industrial 

 lines. An acre of beets constituted each 

 experimental field and fifty samples were 



taken from each field to secure a fail- 

 average. Now for the results. As we 

 said before, the poorest samples averaged 

 above 1 2 per cent sugar, or to be more 

 exact, throwing out one exceptional 

 sample that was grown under peculiar 

 conditions, we find the nine poorest 

 samples averaged 12.31 per cent sugar 

 in the beets, or to make a better compar- 

 ison of sugar cane, of which the carte 

 juice ordinarily is tested, the juice of 

 the nine poorest samples averaged 12.90 

 per cent sucrose of SO. 24 percent purity. 

 Now we shall consider the best ten sam- 

 ples, and with increasing experience it 

 is certainly fair to think that the farm- 

 ers of Washington will be able to raise 

 beets equal to these best ten samples. The 

 best ten samples averaged 20.31 percent 

 of sugar in the juice, the poorest of the 

 ten indicating 18.3 per cent and the 

 best of the ten 23.0 per cent sucrose. 

 The purity of the best ten samples aver- 

 aged 91.3 per. cent. 



SUGAR VS. WHEAT. 



There are indications that the Amer- 

 ican people are waking up to the 

 possibilities before them in the manu- 

 facture of sugar from beets, but it will 

 be a long while before there will be 

 factories enough to supply the 2,110,000 

 tons consumed annually by the people 

 of the United States, when it is remem- 

 bered that the total production of beet 

 sugar for the year of 1 890 is estimated 

 by good authority at only 40.000 tons. 

 and 2,000.000 tons of sugar will require 

 to be imported for home consumption. 

 On the estimate of 12 tons of beets per 

 acre, average, or 14,000 pounds, this 

 weight should yield at least one ton of 

 pure sugar. Therefore, to produce 2,000. 

 000 tons of sugar will require the pro. 



