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November 1, 
WESTERN BEET SUGAR MAKING. 
When the South Dakota people started 
to investigate sugar making they could 
not even buy seeds of sugar beets. What 
they did buy turned out to be mangels 
with only about six per cent of sugar. 
By patient selection and breeding they 
have now developed seed which gives uni¬ 
form beets showing 19 per cent of sugar. 
They have even found beets which yield 
25 per cent of sugar, and these will be 
used for future breeding. In spite of the 
general fear that free sugar will kill the 
industry the South Dakota people are 
hopeful. In Bulletin 142 the following 
statement is made regarding one variety 
of sugar beet which gave nearly 21 per 
cent of sugar: 
It gave in round numbers 8,500 pounds 
of sugar per acre. To grow as many 
pounds of wheat per acre it would re¬ 
quire 140 bushels. To grow the same 
number of pounds of oats per acre would 
make it necessary to grow 260 bushels 
per acre. The utter hopelessness of any 
such undertaking is so striking that it 
needs no comment. In fact it would re¬ 
quire ten acres in either oats or wheat 
to yield as much grain pound for pound 
as the sugar yield. Then again let us 
take the cash value of the recoverable 
sugar per acre neglecting the by-products 
of manufacture, pulp, alcohol, etc. Sugar 
at wholesale is now $5.40 per hundred. 
Consequently the manuractured products 
from the sugar grown on one acre would 
be around $400. To raise that value in 
wheat even at $1 per bushel would re¬ 
quire 400 bushels and to grow that much 
at the average yield of 15 bushels per 
acre would require 26 acres of land, while 
to grow the same value in oats at 25 
cents per bushel would take, at 80 bush¬ 
els per acre, 52 acres of land. Moreover, 
sugar comes from the air. It does not 
deplete the soil as grain raising does. 
Prof. Shepard, who writes Bulletin 
142, says that no ordinary crop raised 
on a Dakota farm will give such a ton¬ 
nage as sugar beets. For example, he 
gives the figures regarding one quite fa¬ 
mous variety of sugar beet. This variety 
gave in 1912 about 21 per cent of sugar, 
and a total yield of over 45,000 pounds 
per acre, which meant about S5.000 
pounds of sugar. In South Dakota the 
cost of growing an acre of sugar beets 
is figured at about $26. In a recent re¬ 
port from Germany, the United States 
Consul Poole, of Berlin, gives figures 
showing the cost of sugar beet growing 
in that country. On 11 farms the lowest 
total cost per acre was $41.1S, the high¬ 
est cost $75.55. The heaviest cost was 
for fertilizer, which ran all the way from 
$10.85 to $29.94 per acre. This was due 
to the fact that on land long in cultiva¬ 
tion, heavy fertilizing was required, while 
on the newer land of South Dakota, the 
beets can be grown for a number of 
years yet in the natural soil. 
Taking the figures from 97 German 
farms, the lowest cost per acre was 
$31.90, the highest $77.61. The prices 
realized ran from $3.79 to $5.47 per ton 
of the beets. The lowest yield was 7.4 
tons, the highest 18.4; and it was claimed 
that 80 out of the 97 farms recorded sold 
beets at an actual loss. These figures 
put a different face upon the subject. It 
is quite IlKely that localities may be 
found in Western States, where the soil 
and climate are exactly suited to the 
production of sugar beets, and with care¬ 
ful breeding of improved strains, and 
business-like methods in growing and 
manufacturing, sugar making may yet 
compete in profit with the European in¬ 
dustry. 
GLADIOLUS NOTES. 
It is now time to dig Gladiolus bulbs. 
Choose a dry, sunny and windy day if 
possible, and do the digging in the morn¬ 
ing. Cut off the tops about one inch 
from the bulb, not over two hours after 
digging, as the stems keep on drawing 
food and moisture from the bulbs, which 
they should not do. A fine way to keep 
the ripened bulbs over Winter is in shal¬ 
low boxes, say two inches deep. Fill 
the boxes level full of bulbs and place 
box on cellar floor. Under each corner 
of the box put a small block so that there 
'will not be immediate contact with the 
cellar bottom. Look at the bulbs at least 
once a month and see that they are not 
rotting or molding. If you do find these 
conditions, dry them out at once in a 
light airy room and remove all infected 
bulbs. Air the cellar thoroughly before 
putting the bulbs back, and try to keep 
the cellar in a drier condition. 
Most people grow Gladioli in mixtures 
of all colors. Do not rely on division of 
the Lulbs for keeping up your stock. 
U'PdiC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
This will work all right for a few years, 
when your flowers will commence to be 
smaller, the wind will break the stems 
easily and there will be little or 
no indication of vigor. Then it is time 
to throw the whole lot in the compost 
heap and start over. For the private 
grower the old bulbs should be thrown 
out every few years, and new ones grown 
from bulblets should replace them. These 
bulblets you will find at digging time, 
clinging in and around the old rotted 
root, sometimes as many as a hundred 
on one bulb. Rub these off and save in 
paper sacks through the Winter. In 
Spring soak the bulblets 24 hours in tepid 
water and sow one inch deep in rows. 
They may be planted very thick, but be 
sure to keep the weeds out, or they will 
be very difficult to dig in the Fall. By 
keeping a small quantity of these little 
bulblets coming on each year—they do 
not bloom till the second year—your 
stock will not run out, as is the case 
when division of the bulb is relied on for 
the increase or keeping up an even 
quantity. 
You who are already following the plan 
of growing the bulblets have doubtless 
noticed your mixture gradually getting 
stronger in the bright red shades, and 
most people attribute this to a running 
out of the strain and a reversion to the 
original types (our present day Gladioli 
being a product of the hybridizer’s art). 
This is not the case, however, but is due 
to the fact that the red varieties have a 
tendency to produce bulblets much faster 
than the whites, pinks and yellow, and 
consequently the reds must increase their 
proportion on the mixture. This can only 
be avoided by buying new bulbs from 
time to time of other than the bright reds, 
or by marking at flowering time the red 
ones and then at digging time throwing 
out most of the red-producing bulblets. 
The most satisfactory way of all is to 
find a few varieties that you like, grow 
each kind separate and know just what 
to expect from year to year. 
For those who love this flower try 
next year a few America, Mrs. Frances 
King, Peace, Golden King, Augusta, Pan¬ 
ama, Taconic, Niagara, Cracker Jack, 
Evaline, Klondyke, Blue Jay and Brench- 
leyensis. This covers practically the en¬ 
tire range of color from bright scarlet to 
almost pure white, and in price from 10 
cents to 50 cents a bulb. There is an 
absolutely pure white, even to the an¬ 
thers, called Rochester White, but the 
price of one dollar per bulb is prohibitive 
to most of us. The flowers of the above 
are large except Augusta and Brench- 
leyensis, but as these have from seven to 
ten open at once they are just as at¬ 
tractive. p. L. w. 
Catching Swordfish. 
Perhaps few of our readers will ever 
see a swordfish, or even eat a piece of 
one—though we would like them to have 
that pleasure. At any rate most of us 
are interested in records. We have told 
various champion performances—here is 
another from U. S. Consul Young of 
Halifax, N. S. The swordfish sometimes 
runs to 500 pounds in weight. The fish 
usually swim in “schools” of about 12— 
spend the Summer in the North and re¬ 
turn to the Gulf of Mexico for Winter: 
“You might say every boat that has a 
gasoline engine in her is chasing them, 
and their number may run into the thou¬ 
sands, for, aside from the fascination of 
the work, the cost of outfitting amounts 
to but a few dollars. * * * All that 
is needed is to have a pulpit or wooden 
runway built out on the bowsprit to 
stand on; a shaft and a few kegs and 
darts to complete the gear. Sailing out 
five miles or so offshore the masthead 
lookout sights the fish as they lay near 
the surface sun-basking with their tell¬ 
tale dorsal fins sticking out of the water. 
The vessel sneaks alongside and away 
goes the harpoon. The tiny dart flies off 
the shaft, which is retained by the 
holder, and as it sinks into the side of 
the swordfish a long line and keg buoy 
attached is thrown overboard after it, 
thus the fish makes off at terrific speed 
to tire himself out. * * * When 
completely fagged in a distance of about 
two or three miles the fish stays an¬ 
chored by the keg. * * * This is 
watched by the masthead lookout and 
acts as a finder.” 
CROPS. 
Oct. 20. It rained all day yesterday, 
which is very. nice for grass and wheat. 
Some wheat is up, looking quite green. 
Corn all cut and husking commenced, not 
turning out as well as expected ; silos all 
filled. Apples very scarce and hard to 
get, selling at $1 per bushel. Potatoes a 
very short crop, will have to be shipped 
in; not much live stock changing hands 
at present. This is a fine fruit, stock 
and farming country, but markets for 
produce are a little unhandy. We are 
needing an electric line badly. Good 
farms can be bought at reasonable prices. 
Wheat, 90; corn, new, 75; butter, 22; 
eggs. 27; chickens, 13. W. B. H. 
Chesterhill, O. 
In reply to your inquiry, will give you 
facts as they are at this time in our mar¬ 
ket : 
Dealers Pay Retail 
Corn. 
$1.00 
$1.10 
Oats . 
.45 
.55 
Wheat . 
1.00 
Potatoes . 
1.00 
Butter . 
.28 
Eggs . 
.26 
.28 
Chickens . 
.12 
.14 
Ducks. 
.12 
Hogs . 
.09 
Dressed ........ 
.13 
1.000 Steers. 
7 y 2 
scarce 
Heifers and good 
Bulls 614 to 
7 scarce. 
Sheep. 
$2.00 to $3.50 
per head 
Tomatoes, 50 cents bu.; apples, scarce, 
$1.25; retail, $1.50 to $2.50; peaches, 
very scarce, retail $1.50; pears, $2.00; 
quinces, retail $3 a bushel; milk, 17*4 
cents per gal, netting 15*4 cents deduct¬ 
ing freight; cream, Elgin prices, 31 cents 
per pound; calves and stock cattle scarce 
and high, none for sale; hay, not much 
for sale, $14; straw, $6 to $7. We had a 
terrible drought, with a frost in June. I 
have no apples; no peaches or pears; 
not much hay; oats, half crop. Early 
frost caught most of the corn. Potato 
crop: Many farmers will not get their 
seed back. Mine is about half crop ; will 
have $2 per bushel or more. I have not 
sold any for less than $1, but living near 
retail market I job them out in five to 25 
bushel lots. The frost in June killed all 
the fruit except on high ground, which 
has some apples. I raise early tomatoes, 
which I sold to dealers at from five to 
eight cents per pound. Everything is 
scarce and high except wheat and wool. 
Wool sold for 22 and 23 cents, and I 
think I shall have about as much as if 
crops had been abundant as high prices 
make up for it. B. A. B. 
Harrison Co., O. 
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