CHAPTER II. 

 HOW THE INDUSTRY HAS GROWN IN EACH STATE. 



CALIFORNIA. 



The Golden State is on the eve of an enormous development of her beet-sugar 

 industry. The remarkable success of this industry in recent years has stimulated both 

 capitalists and farmers to push this new industry to the utmost in case the American 



market is reserved for American sugar. 

 Experiments in many parts of the state 

 have been conducted extensively during 

 the past six years. In many of these cases, 

 the beets have been raised on a large scale 

 and shipped to exi^ng factories, some 

 being hauled long distances. In other cases, 

 the crop has been used as feed for stock 

 while the farmers were learning how to 

 raise the crop, and demonstrating the 

 adaptability of the sugar beet to their pe- 

 culiar soil by having the beets analyzed at 

 the state experiment station. It is now 

 evident that there are hundreds of square 

 miles of the richest land in the world avail- 

 able for sugar-beet culture in the Golden 

 State. 



The factory of the Alameda sugar com- 

 pany, at Alvarado, will probably be en- 

 larged this year. During the campaign 

 with the 1896 crop, it has worked up about 







PRESIDENT ALLEN. 



R. M. Allen, president of tlie American sugar 

 growers' society, is also president of the Nebraska 

 state sugar growers' society and one of the largest 

 growers of sugar beets in the country, having 

 m-own 500 acres of beets annually for the past six 

 years. He is also a large cattle feeder and is pro- 

 foundly impressed with the vast possibilities of 

 the beet sxigar industry and of the great value in 

 cattle feeding of the beet pulp from the factory 

 and of the beet tops. 



55,000 tons of beets. Their sugar content 

 varied from 12 to 18 per cent, with from 

 70 to 88 per cent co-efficient of. purity, 

 averaging over 15 per cent of sugar and 

 81 purity. We give on Page 33 an excel- 

 lent photo-engraving of this historical 



In the 1895 campaign Alvarado worked 27,385 tons of beets into 5,400,000 Ibs of 

 sugar, the beets averaging 13 per cent of sugar. 



MR SPRECKELS' ENTERPRISE AT WATSONVILLE 



in Santa Cruz county, near the coast, about 75 miles south of San Francisco, and 25 

 miles north of Monterey, has the credit of standing at the head of the sugar industry 



