Portland (Ire Ors. Historical So. CENTRAL POINT HERALD ‘ C over» Central Point and Vicinity Like a Blanket" V o l. XI No. 46 Central Point, Jackson County, Oregon. Thursday. March I . 1 9 1 7 This Issue 800 Copies Central Point, the Center of the Best Beet Lands of the Famous Rogue River Valley * X ___ • X d o c : S U G A R B E E T S C R E A T E A G O O D S O IL A S W E L L A S A B A N K R E S E R V E DOCI Some Practical Information on Beet Culture That Should Interest Every Farmer in This County. As stated in the last issue of The Herald," its chief aim is to promote the welfare of our community. O f the various industries that Central Point and vicinity is closely interested in, sugar beet growing is the foremost one, and therefore, this issue of the paper is devoted to this topic. A newspaper can be a tremendous factor in I he development of agriculture of the country, hence this paper will be devoted to such cause, and its c Jumna will always be open to articles prepared by men, who know what they are talking about. The farmers are also invited to use the paper to make known their wants. This pai>er is only one of many hundreds who are willing and anxious to co-operate in the movement to bet ter the conditions of the farmer and increase the productiveness of the land. Anything, or any person, or any move ment, that will help general fanning will help the sugar beet growet and anything that makes for success to the licet grower helps the general farm ing. We in the West are behind the Hast. The road maker can help some. The irrigation engineer and the school teacher can help to quicken the pulse r.f agriculture. Perhaps it has not dawned on the farmers of our community that we are located in the very center of the best beet raising lands of the Rogue River Valley, but such is the case and there fore, it is essential for all concerned to give the subject of beet growing proper consideration in order that this section may secure and enjoy the mani- f dd advantages to be had by the proper action taken at the present time. It is not generally known that the sugar beet now grown as a commer cial crop Is one o f the most highly edu cated plants in existence. Corn has been trained by the com bined influence of selection, cultivation and soil fertility to yield more pounds to the acre as the effects of these in fluences are observed and proiier care and attention is given to their applies- t-'on; even yet the limit to which this increase in yield may go is not in s'cht. This may he said of nearly all the grains and forage crops grown on the farm today. With this increase in yield, however, the education stops: the timothy con tains no more protein |ier ton than it did a century ago, so with the grains, the grasses and all the root cro|*s ex cept the sugar beet. Hess than a century ago a certain family of the » lid beet was discovered to contain sugar to a degree that made it valuatde as stock feed. It was found that by careful selection of the mother Boast for a Sugar Beet Factory for Central Point f T 'H E R E is no factory process that w e know of that will reduce a raw 1 material of such heavy tonnage to a produce so finished in its purity SENIOR CLASS PLAY TOM ORROW NIGHT and so comparatively light in weight, and can be so readily available for the table in any country or clime on the globe as that of the modern sugar facrory. ‘‘T h e Blossoming of M ary A n n e ” is the Title of the Best Play E ver Put on beets that were used to produce the seed, not only the yield in tonnage could be increased, but the content of sugar per ton could be Increased as well. This led to repeated attempts to extract the sugar from the beet in such a state of purity that it could be used for human food. It was deemed an achievement when a ton of sugar beets was made to pro duce 120 pounds of refined sugar. Even at this rate it was difficult to produce tlte beets at a cost low enough to allow the extraction of tlte refined product. It is found that the sugar beet will grow in all altitudes from 100 feet be low sea level to 6000 feet above sea level; that when the late frosts in the spring destroy the fruit ami the wheat, the sugar beets have survived as well or better than any other crops: that when the heavy rains or winds have beaten the grain and hay crops and flattened them to the ground, the sugar beets have weathered the storm almost without exception. The hail storms in Beet Sugar Is Endorsed Dr. Harvey \V. Wiiey Former Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry. U. S. Department of Agriculture, C. O. Townsend F’athologist in charge of Beet Sugar Investigation, U. S. De partment o f Agriculture. By the Country's Albert E. Leach Late Chief Denver Food and Drug Inspection Department, U. S. Department o f Agricul ture. G. W. Shaw California Experiment Station. Dr. Woods Hutchinson Recognized Authority on Ft**! Values and Health Sulijects. the manufacturer anything like a profit on the refined product. Hut the possibility of the sugar beet »a s not even yet exhausted, the in- ci ease in sugar content as well as ton- :iage |>er acre went on with the aid of improved processes of extraction It is a poor crop of sugar beets that will not produce from 24b to 250 pounds <>f refined sugar to the ton This brings the record o f the vicis situdes and triumphs of the produc tion of the beet sugar to a point where the farmer of today can raise sugar beets at a profit and the manufacturer ran Iw reasonably certain of a profit on Best Authorities H e re — Everybody W ill B e There. In many respects this has been a very dull winter with comparatively nothing to break the monotony of the long evenings. It is true that the high school has contributed its share of en tertainments with its debates and bas ket ball games, but there has been nothing in the uramatic line. Therefor the Senior class play which is to be staged in the Savoy theatre Friday eve ning, March 2, is awaited with interest. The play is a comedy-drama entitled “ The blossoming of Mary Ann.” It is a modern society drama and interesting from start to finish, the dialogue being bright and the play full of action with hardly a dull moment in it, The char acters are all interesting. There is the up-to-date society matron contrasted with the plain good hearted country housewife. The lazy maid of all work is excruciatingly funny, and the sharp- tongued village dressmaker is no less amusing in her way The invalid girl has a dower-like charm and her tem pestuous older sister is vivid and com pelling. Then there is an effervescent society bud, while the heroine herself wins the hearts of all by her sweetness and loyalty. The male characters are all likable young college men. C ast of C haracters William Harkeley, A Yale Man Wilbur Dunlap Charles Mason \ ..... o f Harkeley* s Loyd Henderson ■ Fraternity Teddy Farnum 1 William Welch, Irvin Hurley, Russel Harris Mrs. Henry Kate Kirkland A New York Society Woman. Lysle Gregory Mrs. John Simmons, ......................... Mrs. Simmon's sister. Ruth Lull Betsy Scroggins ......... ................... Mrs. Simmon’s hired help. Christina Heckman August cut the fruit from the trees, destroy the finest |>otato fields, the Sarah Applegate Slissy leaves of the beet crop entirely Farmdale dressmaker and gossip. stripped from the crowns, yet new Hartie Fence leaves spring out from the dormant Elaine Jewett A society girl bud» and a bountiful harvest Is Katherine Nealon gathered. It iH one of the most re Elaine’s invalid siBter liable mortgage-lifting crops known. Trella Jewett Hose Neale The prices of oats and wheat may lie so low that your plans aie seriously Ratty Cloverleaf A society girl disturbed, the price of la-eta are as Jessie Chimney sured before the crop is planted. Yet »h en all this is said there ure soils and James E Trevorrow, superintendent climatic conditions that are not condu o f the Metropolitan L ife Insurance Co. cive to the best results; given a rich at Medford, was a Central Point visitor (Continued on page 6( Tuesday.