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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
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Central Point, the Center of the Best Beet
Lands of the Famous Rogue River Valley
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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
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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,
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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
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Tuesday.