60 THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. 



concludes: "The state is well adapted to sugar-beet culture, tonnage very high, pu- 

 rity co-efficient quite satisfactory, averaging about 85. " 



NORTH DAKOTA E. F. Ladd, chemist, reports analyses of beets grown in '91 

 from 129 farms in all parts of state, yielding estimated average of 13 tons per acre, 

 containing 7 to 18 per cent sugar, average 11.43, purity 46 to 98. In '92, Prof Ladd 

 believed other crops would be more profitable in most of the states; his letter in the 

 fall of '9(5 expresses no opinion. But further private tests and experiments, in Utah, 

 Nebraska and Wisconsin, prove beyond question that the beet sugar industry can be 

 made a great success in most parts of North Dakota. 



MICHIGAN Tests were made all over the state in 1891. Season was unfavorable, 

 drouth serious, results conflicting. In western counties 28 farmers reported an aver- 

 age of 15 tons of beets per acre containing over 14 per cent sugar; southeast, 21 re- 

 ports averaged 16i tons and 13! per cent sugar; central, 40 reports averaged 13 tons of 

 14i per cent sugar; northeastern, 49 reports averaged 15 tons and loi per cent sugar. 

 This makes a promising outlook for both farmer and manufacturer, especially in 

 southern Michigan. See Bulletin 382, Experiment Station, Agricultural College P O. 



INDIANA About 300 analyses reported (by H A.Huston, chemist) of beets grown 

 in 150 different localities all over the state in 1889-94, show highest yields of 12 to 42 

 tons per acre, lowest 3 to 13 tons; sugar, in juice, highest 14 to 18 per cent, lowest 5 

 to 10; purity, highest 87 to 90, lowest 58 to 70. Small plot tests prior to '94; that 

 year, ten fields of i to 1 acre averaged 19 tons per acre, and half of these fields gave 

 beets of quality sufficient for sugar manufacture. Chemist Huston adds: "Beets of 

 satisfactory quality can be grown in all parts of Indiana. With one exception, all 

 correspondents who have raised beets in large plots believe that at $4 per ton this 

 crop would pay a profit." H. Cordez, who has been working for two years to estab- 

 lish a factory near Evansville, southern Indiana, obtained 15| and 16 per cent sugar 

 of 85 to 90 purity in small plot tests in '96. 



ILLINOIS Because farmers failed to raise enough beets to run the factory at 

 Freeport many years ago, and because on some soils the crop did not seem to thrive, 

 the impression has gone out that this state could not grow beets. The experiment 

 station has done very little to ascertain the truth. Until the matter has been as 

 widely tested as in Minnesota or Wisconsin, correct judgment cannot be formed. 

 Until such tests prove to the contrary, we shall believe Illinois has thousands of acres 

 that can be readily adapted to this crop. 



MINNESOTA (Prof Henry Snyder) It has been the aim of the state experiment 

 station to test, in as thorough and impartial a way as possible, the adaptability of 

 Minnesota's soil and climate to the growing of sugar beets. The work has been car- 

 ried on for eight years, during which time 1079 samples of sugar beets have been ana- 

 lyzed, showing of sugar 10 to 20 per cent, an average of 14 per cent; purity 70 to 94, 

 an average of 80|. The beets have been grown in a large number of counties through- 

 out the state. It is believed that the experiment station has demonstrated that sugar 

 beets, with a high per cent of sugar and co-efficient of purity, can ba raised in Min- 

 nesota, at a cost of $2 to $3 per ton. The average yield per acre was 15 tons. 



IOWA For the purpose of ascertaining by repeated experimentation how well 

 Iowa is adapted to growing sugar beets, we began in 1891 and have grown and tested: 



