

Ill 



lower in a large number of cases than truly representative samples would have 

 shown. 



Fifteen counties furnished beets analyzing on the average above 13 per cent of 

 sugar in the juice; beets analyzing on the average above 14 per cent were received 

 from the following counties: Door, Green, Jeft'ersou, Lincoln (only one analysis), 

 Pepin, Racine, Sank, Trempealeau, and Washington. These counties do not belong 

 to any single section of the State, but are scattered all around, in the western, south- 

 ern, and northeastern portion of the State. This would indicate that successful 

 sugar-beet culture with us is more a question of skill in growing than a question of 

 soil. In any part of the State there is soil well adapted to sugar-beet culture; what 

 i,s wanted is farmers who understand the cultivation of the beets, and enough of 

 them within a limited area to furnish a sufficient quantity of beets to supply a beet- 

 sugar factory Avith 200 to 300 tons of beets daily for a campaign of about three 

 months. This means the product from not less than 1,500 acres of land in an 

 average year. Whenever these conditions are present, beet-sugar factories will be 

 established in our midst; capital Avill doubtless be ready to invest as soon as there 

 is any prospect of successful outcome. But it would be simply throwing away a 

 fortune to enter upon the undertaking Avith no certainty of the supply of beets. 

 A modern beet-sugar factory will cost at least $150,000; before beginning on the en- 

 terprise all conditions must therefore be carefully studied ; the question of supply of 

 beets is perhaps the most important of these. The results of the work done by this 

 station during the past three years indicate that Wisconsin can grow beets in suf- 

 ficient quantity and of good percentage of sugar; if this is correct, manufacturing 

 of beet sugar will be a success with us when enough beets can be obtained to supply 

 a beet factory. 



Wyom infj. -Fifteen samples were received from this State, of which 9 

 came from Albany County. The mean results from this comity show 

 14.32 per cent of sugar in the beet, with an average weight of 7 ounces. 

 The best results, all things considered, from the State are from Crook 

 County, although only three samples were sent, showing 13.77 per 

 cent of sugar and an average weight of 10 ounces. 



In closing these remarks on the data obtained from the different 

 States and Territories, it may be well to call attention to the fact of 

 the remarkable extent of the area in the United States in which sugar 

 beets of fair richness can be grown. In Bulletin 27, from theoretical 

 considerations, a map was given showing practically where in the 

 United States beets of exceptional richness could be grown. At the 

 time of the publication of this map it was distinctly stated that there 

 would be doubtless many localities without the boundaries of the pro- 

 posed area in which excellent beets could be produced. The experi- 

 ments, which have now been carried on for two years, show that the 

 limits of beet-culture for sugar-making purposes are even wider than 

 those intimated before. 



Beets of fair quality have been grown as far south as Texas, and it is 

 now believed that on most of the high plateaus of the central western 

 portion of the United States beet-culture can be practiced with profit, 

 especially where irrigation is possible. On account of the value of 

 lands which are reclaimed by irrigation it is highly necessary that 

 some crop should be grown which will pay for the intensive culture, and 

 nothing better than the sugar beet can be recommended for this pur- 



