THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. 



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Wisconsin for five years from 1897. Wyoming exempts from all taxation for ten years. 

 A number of state legislatures will now be asked to furnish a bounty of some form 

 for a few years. In most cases they will probably accede to this request. It will do 

 much to insure a supply of beets the first year or two, or until farmers generally have 

 learned to grow the crop to advantage. In all such cases the law should be so worded 

 that a bounty of Ic per Ib. should in effect go to the producer, so that, instead of $4 per 

 ton, he may get $5 per ton for beets. States may well afford this encouragement to their 

 farmers for a few years, because one or two successful factories in a state will mean the 



HAND CULTIVATION OF SUGAR BEETS. 



Tliis shows the Planet Jr. double wheel hoe in a field of beets, leaving the crop clean and 

 thoroughly worked, and the ground level, using the cultivator teeth only. From a photograph taken 

 in central New York* 



establishment of others. Moreover, such a state bounty will be some offset to the uncer- 

 tainties of congressional action. It will not be necessary for any state to offer a bounty 

 for a long term of years, nor do we approve of such, but under present circumstances, 

 some special local encouragement for a few years, under proper safeguards, will prove 

 to be a good policy for all concerned. 



A FEDERAL BOUNTY. 



Speaking of the possibility of protection to the domestic sugar industry being threat- 

 ened by the admission of sugars from the tropics duty free, Mr. Ware says in The Sugar 

 Beet for October, 1898: 



There is only one remaining solution for promoting the beet sugar industry in 

 this country, and that is a bounty on home production and exportation. European experi- 



