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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1917)
I SUGAR BEETS CREATE A GOOD SOIL AS WELL AS A BANK RESERVE X X Some Practical Information on Beet Culture That Should Interest Every Farmer in This County. Kreen ,l,efore the>' c,lre out) much crouches upon the urea of hay ground p p. E. Medal of Honor valuable humus and about two-thirds and added to the fact that the facilities Received By VV.H. Norcross potash required to produce the original offered by a sugar factory for feeding crop is thereby returned to the soil, stock, there are thousands of cattle This section o f the valley ably dem iiy a most favorable law o f nature the and sheep brought into the feeding sugar that is shipped to market is fixed yards every season, this creates an ad- onstrated its capabilities as a fruit growing district by being awarded a In the beet in combination with the ded demand for hay and straw. (Continued from first page) medal at the Panama Pacifiic Interna soil and first-class farm practice the starch and cellulose and is converted Tenth: That the natural increase moisture conditions should lie almost from the carbon-dioxide which is in in the selling value of lands In a beet tional Exposition. Tne recipient o f the medal, W. H. Norcross, on orchardist entirely under the control of the haled through the leaves from the air. growing community is about _ four per south of town _____ — was awarded the certifi- farmer. Experience has shown that Thus it is seen that where the pulp cent per year. This alone will just cate and Ko)d medal o f honor for the while sugar beets can be grown in from the factory can tie fed to about meet the annual interest on 'lie best Bose pears exhibited at the expo many districts of the I'nited States, the stock so that the manure could be re ordinary farm loan. sition in 1915. Mr. Norcross received successful operations are confined to turned to the land upon which beets The unfavorable part o f this de- the medal and certificate today. are to be grown, a very high state of the area that embraces the interval- velopment is that the progress is s o -------------------------- levs and the eastern and western so'* fertility at a very low cost can be slow that it is scarcely noticed nor up- H o te , ^ Room q slopes of the lloeky Mountains. It will almost indefinitely maintained, all of predated. 1 he farmers, like any other ° lie noticed that these districts are more which is appreciated when we see as class of people, are tenacious in their The dining room o f the Hotel Cen or less arid and semi-arid in their cli many as eighteen consecutive crops of methods in social or business life. sugar beets grown upon the same land tral has been opened up since the first matic nature and implies the necessary The important thing at this time is o f the week and Mrs. Betts, the genial practice of irrigation to at least some (without a single year o f rest or sum i xtent. Many of the largest valleys mer fallow) with the uid of only a few to so hasten a beneficial change of landlady of the hotel is already doing a methods that results that have re- nice businees. and plains in this area are as yet un tons of barnyard manure each year. - developed, and It appears that we are Seventh: That the price of the crop qtiired so much time heretofore, can be Following deductions have been on the threshold of an area of unpre is known before the seed is planted brought about more quickly. There Is cedented prosperity for progressive and tile fact that the price by infer no good reason that a community made from the registration o f voters, and Intelligent capital on the one hand ence or by actual contract is guaran should take ten years to develop a and cancellations made, by reason of and tile progressive and intelligent teed for two or more years enables the prosperous sugar beet and sugar in- electors failing to vote during two- farmer on the other. farmer to plan the preparation of his dustry. The methods of farming and year period in accordance with Sec- The experimental stages have been soil and arrange his schedule of crop dairving in the central states have been tlon 12, Chapter 225, of General Laws passed. Itotb the growing of sugar rotation in a manner which is sure to revolutionized for the better in an of Oregon for 1915: Republican: Male, 191 female, 142 beets and the manufacture of sugar enhance the promise of greater re incredibly short time. W hy can not therefrom lias now been reduced to turns. With one-quarter of the farm the methods o f the west be changed as total, 30- 1. Democrat: Male, 12 a science, many valuable lessons have In sugar beets the balance of the farm well? In both old and new commit female, 112 been learned, the most important of can be devoted to grain and forage nities much can lie done by an active total, 239 Progressive: Male, 5; female, 3 which is co operation, and the greatest crop, which, if fed to stock produces co-operation on the part of the editors, teacher is co-operation in irrigation. No iu the resultant manure the best fer the hankers and the merenants. In total, 8. stead o f being content as parasites Prohibition: Male, 8; female, 13 man can isolate himself in a farming tilizer known at a minimum cost. Eighth: That the beet crop is sold these classes in many places are be total, 21. community where irrigation is prac Socialist: Male, 26; female, 10 ticed. and In no class oi farming Is in tile fall and is a crop that deterior coming real contributors to the wel total. 36. co-operation so vitally necessary as In ates If kept later than harvest time, fare and progress of the people. Miscellaneous: Male, 30; female, (Continued next week) the beet sugar industry. The reduc the price is established and no in 36: total, 66. tion of tile beet to a produce so fine crease in price can be promised by the Totals: Male, 388; female, 316 S u g a r C o n s u m p tio n In c re a s in g that it can lie placed upon the tilde market if the crop is kept over. This The people of the I ’ nited States are total, 704. in any part of the world as a standard "beet money." as we call it, is de|iend- , pressing . * bills ,,,„ apparently 1 ■ • using , more sugar than ever food requires a vast aggregation of ed upon to meet all the lands and capital, an immense asso that are usually due In the fall giving before, for the increase of consumption . hold i i i his wi„ has been greater than the Increase in ciation of individuals skilled in va tin farmer an opportunity to .i following r n population. According t <t figures in rious phases of industrial and can- hav and grain over until the ■ r or until . the , . , is satisfac- Bulletin 4i3. • recently prepared by merclal activities coupled with a con jM i-lm price * 1 J the spring Occasionally one keeps his pro- Bureau o f Crop Estimates o f the 1’ nlt- tinued "strong pull and a pull alto torv gether of entire communities." • long enough : to . duce pass the high eil atStes Department of Agriculture, . ... There are genarallv a few farmers i u.,„ i,„. „ the total consumption o f sugar in this market and run Into a d e fin e but a colmtry for ,he decade end)nK wlth the i see .... tne tlie point of vantage given by ..... can-l il him olisen.it o prices ie who poim »hat on the of haj, fiscal year 1912-13 was 42.9 * per cent the addition o f the beet crop o their rotation system .„ .I they usual y beg a to forge ahead and prosper. The> will learn: First: That, take it one year with another It is the best paying crop that we can raise, that is to say we gi t larger returns from the land both in the gross receipts per acre and iu net receipts |>er acre Second The growing of beets ha* raised the cash rental values of our farm lands from about ten dollars p< r acre per year to eighteen and twenty dollars |H>r acre |ier year. Third: That we should select our yen host soil for sugar beets and pro- -mother cced pr . of build ground up for am rotation which pro- piece to cess in time builds up the soil or. the entire farm. Fourth: That the* careful attention which one soon learns is necessary to the success of the be*e*t crop In the preparation of the seed bed and the cultivation of the l>eet field makes for clean farms and is gradually reflected il! the better care and attention to other crops Fifth That hay and grain crops following beet crops yield better than following any other crop. Sixth: That only about one third of the nitrogen in a crop of beets Is taken away with the root and about two-thirds is left in the field in the crowns and tops and by plowing under these tops and crowns while they are , „ and ,lotatoes k are higher by from srea,pr ,h>n th e consumption for the ^ th„ spring than breed in g decade while(the.population fall. This is easily ,<>r ,h<> sa" ' e Period only shows an in- understood when we reflect that nearly crease of 21 |>er cent. all tiie obligations for water, land, machinery, interest and taxes fall due in tlie fall and most of them within a period o f less than fifty days. This was a most improvident scheme to begin with and it is being most relig iously carried out with the inevitable When bemoaning the high cost result that about 90 |ier cent of these products are thrown on the markets o f living do a little fiiguring and and change hands within the short profit thereby. For one pound o f space of thirty or forty days each year, Good White Wheat Flour yields thus "bearing" the price to the lowest more nourishment expressed in ^ THE CHEAPEST FOOD p o s s ib le minimum, which responds only at about the half-way period between * — -> - *-•*- harvests. calories or fuel units than any 0ther six common foods, and for less money even at the present price o f flour. Just as soon as the farmer learns to gage the size* of his beet crop so that Retail Price Calories this plan can lie worked out, his pros- \\ heat Flour 4 lb . 1632 perlty is assured. Can you imagine a Rice 7c lb . 1478 more perfect dovetailing of business Beef Sirloin 20c lb . 1025 in farm management? Twenty-five per 25c doz. cent of the farm In a crop that per Eggs 936 ■ mlts the other seventy-five |>ercent to Milk 7c qt. 619 ■ return as much money value as the one Fish 20c lb . 325 - hundred |>or cent could return without Potatoes 4c lb . 296 - the assistance of the beets Butter costs seven times the price o f wheat flour and only gives twi Ninth as I’hat while the hay crop, as m u t .j, nourishment. So good wheat (Hour is still ‘ ‘The Staff o f L ife twice ,” as it such. Is usu ually the poorest money crop gives the greatest nourishment to the body at the lowest cost. In the rotation, when sugar • beet cul As to the Best brand o f white wheat flour to use— ture is adopted, the hay ground, or part of it. is usually- devoted to the poets This In course of time, en- Why, Mt. Pitt Flour, of Course! Made by The Central Point Millg