Sugar Beet in United States. 



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such a way as to facilitate the identity of any members not 

 sending them in fresh. The sale of eggs and poultry may 

 eventually be carried out through the Irish Co-operative 

 Agency Society ; but the young societies are advised to con- 

 centrate all their efforts at first in producing articles of first-rate 

 quality, and subsequently on keeping up this standard, so as 

 to attract the English consumer and then retain his custom. 

 Until this is accomplished it is suggested that it would be 

 better not to attempt selling on the London market, but 

 rather to seek outlets in other centres until the requisite 

 high standard of excellence for the London trade has been 

 attained. 



Sugar-Beet in the United States. 



Experiments in the cultivation of sugar-beet have been made 

 in various parts of the United States under the direction 

 of the Chemistry Division of the Department of Agriculture, 

 and for several years experiment-stations were maintained 

 by the Department in Nebraska, Florida, and Kansas. The 

 results of these investigations have shown that sugar-beets, 

 possessing satisfactory saccharine qualities, can be grown in 

 parts of Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, 

 South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, California, Arizona, and 

 New Mexico. In his report for 1897, the Chief of the 

 Department of Chemistry says : " The northern parts of our 

 Eastern and Middle States and the States of Oregon and 

 Washington have at least an equal chance for the successful 

 production of beet-sugar with the fields of Germany and 

 France. The irrigable parts of the great South-West, it is 

 believed, have advantages of soil and climate which will 

 enable them to enter into competition even with the Hawaiian 

 Islands and Cuba." 



Statistics of the acreage under sugar-beet in the United 

 States are not published annually; but in 1893 it was 

 estimated that at least 24,000 acres were devoted to the crop, 

 and since that year the area has undoubtedly increased. 



As regards the prospects of the development of a beet- 

 sugar manufacturing industry, the economic conditions of 



