AMERICAN BEET SUGAR. 



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following crops of sugar beets in previous years. The statement is credited to 

 P. W. Morse, an officer of the Watsonville sugar factory, who has supervised the 

 field work in the Pajaro and San Benito valleys: 



Above list contains all Pajaro valley farmers who raised wheat on land farmed 

 to beets in 1896. All except J. J. Eagen, raised beets on the same land in 1895. 

 Average price of wheat at shipping point was $1.46^ per cental, and of beets $4 

 per ton. Returns per acre (not including value of beet tops or straw) were: 



In 1895 from beets $42.20 



In 1896 from beets 71.40 



In 1897 from wheat 38.74 



Average rental value of land was $11.35 per acre, or 43 cents per cental. Av- 

 erage cost of raising wheat, $8.33 per acre, or 31^ cents per cental. Total cost 

 74^2 cents per cental. Profit above rent and cost of raising was 72 cents per cental, 

 or $19.06 per acre, plus value of straw and stubble, which were worth on an aver- 

 age $1.50 per acre. Cattle were fed on the stubble and most of the straw was 

 baled and sold to the local paper mill. 



Quality of wheat raised ranked as milling and No. i shipping. 



Above returns are compiled from actual figures of farmers. In all cases they 

 have made liberal allowance for the value of their work and rental value of their 

 land. Figures, therefore, rather overrate cost of production. 



INFLUENCE OF SUGAR BEET CULTURE IN INCREASING CROP OF ALL AGRI- 

 CULTURAL PRODUCTS. The profit of sugar beet culture for the farmers is shown in 

 the following experiences in Germany and Austria-Hungary. The ten years average 

 crop from a German farm of 625 acres in cereals was 5,736 bushels of grain be- 

 fore the beet culture was introduced. When the beet culture was introduced and 

 they planted each year 125 acres with sugar beets, the average crop of grain from 

 the remaining 500 acres was 5,730 bushels yearly. Another German farm of 625 

 acres in Saxony showed the following figures: Before the beet culture, the ten 

 years average crop of grain was yearly 13,879 bushels. When each year there 

 were planted 135 acres of beets, the yearly crop was 14,365 bushels from the re- 



