The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1904, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, EDNESDA 27 <, APRIL 1904. VEETS SCHWAB |GOVERNMENT WILL AID PROPAGATION | | N THIS CITY James Smith. Receiver for the Shipbuilding Trust, Has Been Here Two Days THEY VISIT SHIPYARD Steel Magnate and Party Will Depart To-Day for Southern Part of State States Senator James N Former Unit d the a thor- plant, Henry in the hcoming visit to San r Smith ¥ presence Mex et ning ok ; - et PROMOTION COMMITTE DINNER BEGINS EARLY Guests That Accept Invitations Repre- Portion of the f California sent Every State been brought 1 be short he occasion wi JNO. J. FULTON CO. His Son Saved Him Had Bright's Disease and Thought the End "Was Near When His Son in Spokane Heard of Fulton’s Compound and Started Him on It, With the Following Resuits. DEAR SIRS of the time L pain when d @ physician, who told me it Bright's Disease. 1 trested for montbs, but there w no permanent good. Finally my heart was 1y becoming paralyzed I thought e was near. My son in Spokane Renal Compound for ¥ . ¢ me two botties for tria on it now for abovt eight x dney 1= entirely well and my left much also my heart. 1 do mot hesitate to recommend it to any one with Bright's Disease for 1 am practically & new man, and I give the compound the pralse. Respectfully W. C. MILLER Chelun, Wash., April 13, 1904, Medical works acknowledge the incur- ability of chronic Bright's Disease and Diabetes. And they WERE beyond hu- man aid up to the discovery of the Ful- ton Compounds. But about 87 per cent now fecover. It is a matter of life and death. Don’t delay Send for litera- ture and list of agents to the Jno. J. Fuilton C 409 Washington $t., San Francisco. seal agents in all Eastern cities of 10,000 and over. L n OF THE AMERICAN SUGAR BEET| [OR Statistics Demonstrate That the Product Is One of the Most Profitable Known to Agriculturists, and an Expert Will be Sent to a Washington Farm to Experiment on High Breeding of Seeds of the Vegetable WALL. EAU, HOTEL BARTON, iTON, April 26.—In the ag- appropriation bill, which is omplished legislation s session of Congress, there i tem of $10,000 out of which, of American s assembled a few days hington, the members of an investment of many to an association ense benefit is to grow 00 is to pay for experiments eding up” the seed of the sugar the pn ime the sugar e most hly bred root in rld, but process of breeding he y fairly begun and is to be con- t right along under the supervi- 1t and for the benefit of whomsoever will. That there ain sugar beets— grandmother, beet ople know of vail by which f where it is. sting news to the | riated by Congress s in experiments to be a certain farm located fre pokane, Wash., k Morrison. | The reason | , is that Mr. Morrison t experiments in his | ligentiy and success- attracted the attention sympathy of the Agri- Department of the Govern- Morrison’s seed beets are said to have the highest percentage of sugar contents yet reported of any American grower To reach conclu- sions qu and inexpensively, Secre- Wil Mr ry n dispatches his man to work Morriscn on Mr. Morrison’s CALIFORNIA BEET SUGAR. The of California leads all the State of 1t Union in the pro- tion of beet sugar. The available area for growing sugar beets success- fully is greater on the Pacific Coast n eisewhere, extending from North- to Southern Califor- , the line being drawn from about Alemetos northeastward across map to New York, leaving out all Southern and Gulf States. offers great possi- e sugar be: bilities to the Western farmer. It is rofitable crop; a most inter- sting study; no other crop can com- with it for turning the arid lands of the West into money-making acres. The sugar beet, or its product, can pay fr across the continent. Corn, wheat, alfalfa—no other crop do it.” This what Truman G. Palmer, secre y of the American Beet Sugar Association said to me, MICHIGAN'S GREAT PLANT. In Pittsburg there were a number of men who did not know what to do with their surplus money—money which they had made out of the man- re of plate glass. A man went from Michigan and laid before prospectus touching the manu- facture of b sugar and he did it so effectively that they are about build- ing in the State of Michigan an enor- mous plant with a capital of a billion dollars, a plant superior to anything of the kind in the world for the manu- facture of sugar from beets.” Senator Dolliver made this state- ment recently in a speech, as he said, addressed to the ear of the young men of the United States, in which he un- dertook to shogv among other things that opportunity waited upon brains and enterprise in this country at this moment as it has never done before. The beet sugar reference was but'a point among many, but taken in con- nection with other things it serves to direct attention to what Mr. Palmer says'is an opportunity, especially open in the West. When the Dingley tariff law went into effect in 1897 there were just six factories making sugar from _beets, This year there are fifty-six—all do- ing big and profitable business where a supply of beets can be obtained. The farmer must produce the raw material before the factory can do business anad e first work of the manufacturer is | | | { | | | | | | to educate the farmer to a profitable crop. Failure in this regard has caused difficulty in this very State of Mich- igan to be invaded by the Pittsburg glass men. Michigan, by the way, has twenty-two of the fifty-six factories in the United States, though its prod- uct is third. California, with but seven factories, leads the list in the matter of product, followed by Colorado with her nine factories. Utah, with seven fac- tories, comes next. New York has two factories, with one each in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The product of these factories the past year totaled 241,000 tons. GREAT OPPORTUNITY. Now, this is the way Mr. Palmer fig- ures out the opportunity, or one of the opportunities: The consumption sugar in the United States per annum 2,500,000 tons. $The production of untry, including her islands, 'is importation, 1,500,000. On the basis of thre product of the mills we have, there could be built and operated in this country 341 other factories be- the home consumption could be supplied at home. The army of men who would be employed in the factories would be supplemented by the army of farmers raising the beets—this among the other benefits—and all are contingent Mr. Dolliver said in this same quoted speech, upon leaving the tariff alone. And then there are the railroads—to quote Mr. Palmer again. “The freight receipts of Rocky Ford, Colo., in 1899, he said, “were $96,000. In that year the fore Oxnards built a beet sugar factory there, and by 1902 the town had doubled in population and the railroad freight receipts of the place footed up $590,000. By this same ratio your 341 factories that might end should be built in this coun- try would add to the business of the railroads $170,000,000 in freight. The beet sugar factory is a building three or four stories high. If we place them end to end—what we have—there would be a continuous industry -eight miles in length. If we could add the number to supply the home demand alone, there would be a noble line extending fifty-six miles across country.” These figures, of course, are more picturesque - than practical, but they serve to illustrate an opportunity or two. BEGINNING OF INDUSTRY. But it is the work of the Govern- ment—the Agricultural Department that I set out to speak of. The mak- ing of sugar from beets was begun in Europe over a century ago. The first factory was set up in Cuneru, Silesia, in 1801. At that time the beet con- tained from 5 to 6 per cent of sugar. Since then the content of the mother beet has been bred up to 16 per cent. The process of breeding {8 by a careful course of selec- tion and fertilization, the beets containing the highest percentage being devoted to the growing of seed vear by year. The beet is first selected from the formation of its leaf, then the shape of the root and finally as to the chemical content. Growers and manufacturers in Germany, which is now the center of the industry, have kept a record for forty years of their progress in this way and can show photographs of lines of mother beets for twenty generations covering that time. The oldest factory in the United States, although there were others built earlier, is located at Alvarado, Cal., the property of the Alameda Su- gar Company. For a long time seed was imported from Germany and to- day the growers of this country de- pend largely on the imported seed. Should this supply be cut off it would greatly cripple the industry here. This fact led the Agricultural Department to interest itself in the matter and Secretary Wilson dispatched John E. ‘W. Tracy, seed expert, upon a mission of inquiry and study, from which he has just returned with a great deal of valuable information. Dr. H. W. Wy- lie, chief of the bureau of chemistry, and Dr. C. O. Townsend of the bureau of seed and plant introduction, have been analyzing and experimenting with beets for several years. The results of this work warranted Secretary Wilson to say to the Ameri- can association and to me in an inter- view a few days ago that he would be Ohio | of | | | | | il | SECRETARY OF AMERICAN BEET SUGAR Aégom.a'flmg‘ AND A { TYPICAL FIELD SCENE, 1 able in a few years to produce a seed | that will average 26 per cent of sugar n the factory beet. When this is ac- complished, says Secretary Palmer of the association, Congress may take off the tariff as against the Philippines, or any other country for that matter, as American factories can with this com- | pete even against the unclad and un- | housed labor of the South Sea islands. | A few seed beets have developed 25 | | per cent, and one beet has been found ! | with 28 per cent. With this to start from, it is a much easter matter to breed up a whole crop to this stand- ard than to advance a point beyond it. ;The work of reaching 16 per cent fac- | tory beets from 6 per cent seeds will | be appreciated from this fact. The fac- | tory beet, it should be said, develops about 3 per cent less sugar than the | seed beet analyses. | | | TESTING THE SEED. The department is carrying on lines of work looking to betterment of the beet and the benefit of the industry. The first is the securing of the best seed and distributing it after it s test- ed. It is not going into this on a com- mercial scale, of course, but in an ef- | fort to extend cultivation. The second | work is the testing of seed. Seed is bought in large quantity and placed | with other seed in tracts of from two to ten acres in the vicinity of every factory in the country. The third work is the testing by comparison of all the | different varieties of seed used in the factories of the United States, the tests |in all cases being by experts and in | the most scientific manner. But there is another and very im-| portant development in the cultivation | of the sugar beet, and which the de- partment is working up. It is the pro- duction of a single seed in the ball. | The beet seed ball contains from one to nine seeds, and each seed produces ! a beet. The roots are therefore grouped | and to keep them trimmed requires a | great deal of labor of a kind the Amer- | ican farmer does not like—that is slow work with the hands, stooping over| each hill. If the beet could be grown singly it could be planted in rows and culitvated with machinery.' To produce | a seed that would grow a single beet and a beet that would reproduce its seed is the effort being made. The method adopted is simply that of se- lection—finding the single seed, in the first place, and breeding to it, selecting out the product and repeating the pro- cess. CARE IN SELECTION. “Success or fallure in the growing of the selection of seed. The seed is the whole thing. Sugar is made in the field and not in the factory. The seed costs from 9 cents to 15 cents a pound, and about fifteen pounds plant an acre. If the farmer buys poor seed he saves from 90 cents to $1 an acre, with a possible difference in product of from 6 to 7 tons in weight and a correspond- ing difference In sugar, content and purity counting for from $25 to $28 in money. The best seed raised comes from the neighborhood of the Hartz Mountains. There are several growers in this country, the seed of the Morrison farm at Fairfleld, Wash., being the best, Considerable seed is raised near Le- hi, Utah, which is thought to be the best for the arid land and the irrigated sections of the West. H. C. and J. B. | gratulations and best wishes, to which, as sugar beets,” said Mr. Tracy, “lies in| CRAND PARLOR | MONTEREY Native Sons in Convention at Vallejo Decide to Meet Next Year at the Seaside MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR‘ Interesting Addresses Are Made at the Banquet) in the Navy Yard City| Special Dispatch to The Call. VALLEJO, April 26.—A beautiful aft- ernoon followed a night and morning that brought numerous heavy show | ers, which injured- street decorations, but did not depress the spirits of visit- | ing Native Sons. The contests for the secretaryship and treasurership of the ! Grand Parlor are still paramount. | However, the gentlemen who desire to | be grand trustees now number twenty | and their claims for recognition are urgent. It is likely that the number | of grand trustees will be Increased from seven to eleven and that will give a fraction over half of the aspir- | ants a chance. | Among distinguished members of the | order here are Senator J. R. Knowland | of Alameda, Judge Fletcher Cutler of | Humboldt, Senator Tom Flint Jr. of | San Francisco, Dr. Charles Decker ot\ San Francisco, former Congressman | Caminetti of Amador, former Congress- ! man Coombs of Napa, District Attor- neys Fowler and Horr of Madera and Merced, Judge F. H. Dunne and Lewis F. Byington of San Francisco, former | Mayor Catts of Stockton, former Judge Fletcher of Del Norte, Abe Ruef of San Francisco, Senator Belshaw of An- tioch, Senator Nelson and Under Sher- iff Hynes of San Francisco, Judge Mc- Sorley of Mokelumne, Judge Rust of Jackson and Frank A. Mattison of | Santa Cruz. ) MONTEREY IS SELECTED. | The morning session of the Grand | | Parlor was brief. A telegram was read | | from Stella Finkeldey, grand president | | qf the Native Daughters, extending fraternal greetings to Native Sons in | | their twenty-seventh annual session. | Monterey, which was the only aspirant | | for the honor, was selected as the meet- | ing place of the next Grand Parlor. | | Marysville announced that it will be |a candidate for the 1908 Grand Parlor. | | Owing to the threatening condition | | of the weather, the visit tc Mare Isl- | and navy yard which had been pro- | grammed for this afternoon was post poned until to-morrow afternoon. How ever, the grand officers accepted a spe- cial invitation from Rear Admiral B. | H. McCalla, commanding the Mare Isl- |and navy yard, to lunch with him. | Accompanied by G. G. Halliday, past president of Vallejo Parlor, the grand officers went over at noon to the com- mandant's residence, where they were graciously received by Miss McCalla. | | This lady was assisted in entertaining the guests at lunch by her sister and Mrs. Kindleberger and Miss Waggener. Mayor James Roney and other guests from Vallejo were present, and the offi- cers of the station showed the visitors every attention. After lunch the grand officers viewed some of the interesting points of the navy yard. In the afternoon a resolution was passed declaring it was the sense of the meeting that the next Grand Pai lor choose Sacramento as the city| wherein to hold the 1905 celebration | of Admission day. | BUSINESS OF SESSION. ¥. H. Dam of Pacific Parlor of San Francisco introduced a resolution that 15 cents be added to the per capita tax to defray the expenses of reorganizing and rehabilitating defunct and delin- quent parlors. The resolution went to the finance committee. Fred H. | Jung introduced a resolution which he | supported in a vigorous speech that some future session of the Grand Par- lor be held in Yosemite Valley. Three hours were devoted to a resolution sub- mitted by the committee on appeals and grievances providing that a mem- ber appealing to the grand president to settle a grievance must first have the approval of his own parlor. The object was to lighten the work of the grand president, but the resolution was rejected. Among the telegrams read was one | from the Governor of California. It | was worded as follows: | To the Officers and Members of the Grand Parlor: 1 had hoped to greet you in person, but, much to my regret, public duties have prevented. California’s sons and daughters have much to be thankful for and proud of and Callfornia in turn may well be proud of them. The Grand Parlor has in fts keeping much of California’s weltare. That our or- der will exercise its great influence for good experience has amply demonstrated. Through me the State extends hearty c loyal Native Son, I add mine. GEORGE C. PARDEE. The banquet at the Pavilion to-night | was a brilliant affair. P. B. Lynch, past president of Vallejo Parlor, acted L s o Agnew of Agnew, Cal, raised about twenty tons last year, which they sold to one concern. The farmers, it should be said, get their seed chiefly from the factory, and the factory tries to get the | most suitable for the region in which it operates. Now, as to the profits in growing | beets. A good average yield is sixteen | tons to the acre or 32,000 pounds. At 16% per cent of sugar you have 5280 pounds of sugar to the acre. “We pay $5 per ton for beets, extract- ! ing 230 pounds of sugar,” said Mr.| | Palmer. “This costs us $218 per 100 pounds in the beet. The superior seed will give us a beet of not only higher tonnage per acre but of a higher sugar content, =o that the farmer and the fac- tory will both get the benefit. When | we get a beet of 400 pounds extraction to the ton the sugar in the beet will be | | costing us $1 25 per 100 as against $218, | | but we will be making more money.” | Mr. Palmer, by the way, is the father of the single seed’and the single beet idea. He says he has been talking such a possibility to beet growers and sugar makers for years, but they only scout- ed the idea. When he, in a communi- cation to Secretary Wilson, suggested it he met with ready sympathy. “Of course it can be done,” was the reply. ‘When it is done, says Mr. Palmer, it will relieve the growing of beets of its most disagreeable feature and reduce the expense 25 per cent. The future of the industry is most promising—threat- ened only by a tampering with the. tariff. sovemmsmaawrs FREE! FREE! FREE! TO THE LADIES. We must introduce to the public Our Scotch Tweeds and Our Scotch Tweed Worsteds. Every lady bringing into our store a gentleman for a suit or overcoat, made to order, for $15-90 We will give to her a tailor-made skirt pattern FREE of any cost to her. Remember, you get these Scotch Tweed Woolens for nothing. We want to pay you in this way for your trouble of bringing in the gentlemen for a suit or overcoat, made to or- der, for :.“ H No More No Less This sale starts Wednesday, April 27th, and ends Saturday, April 30th. Remember, Tailor-Made Skirt Patterns given away Free of any cost to you. Our'limit is 1000 Skirt Patterns These goods cost from $2.00 to $4.00 per vyard. You get enough for a skirt free of charge. Come early. Select the best. Scotch Plaid Tailors 1009 MARKET STREET. | Roney; as toastmaster. Covers were laid for The menu cards ~were elaborate souvenirs, containing a pic- ture of the late General M. G. Vallejo, views of Mare Island and Vallejo, the 409 persons. | cruiser Charleston in the drydock and the cruiser Olympia. The regular toasts and those who made responses were as follows: “Our Order,” Hon. H. R. McNoble; “Our Country,” Hon. James .. Gallagher; *alifornia,” Hon. M. T. Dooling; “The Navy,” Rear Admiral B. H. McCalla; “The Pioneers,” Hon. C. E. McLaugh- \; “The Press,” Hon. John F. Davis; The Flag,” Commander C. T. B. Moore; remarks, Hon. Charles Bel- shaw; “City of Vallejo,” Mayor James “California Landmarks,” Hon. J. R. Knowland; “The Ladies,” Hon. W. A. Gett; reminiscenses, Hon. J. E, Mec- Dougald. The Mare Island station orchestra rendered music during thes banquet. —_————————— About New Typewriter. Before buying new or old typewriter write for full particulars about the new writing-in-sight L. C. Smith typewrit- er L. 2nd M. Alcxander, Ciast Agents, 110 Montgomery street. . Filipinos for the World’s Fair. TACOMA, April 26.—The Oriental liner Tremont arrived in port to-day. She brought an unusually large pas- senger list, including a number who have been tional departments at Manila; also a number of pasengers from Yokoha- ma and Kobe. There were eighty na- tives of different tribes of the Philip- pines going to the St. Louis Exposi- tion. in the military or educa- | A DEATH E THE CORONER Body of an Unknown Man Found in a Slough Near Redding, in Shasta County. REDDING, April 25.—The body of an unknown man was found last night in a slough about a mile below Red- ding. Identification was impossible. A rifle was found in the sand twenty feet from the body. Coroner Bassett thinks it is a case of either murder or suicide. This makes the fourth human body that has been found between Middls i Creek and Red Bluff since the Decem- :ber night when four young men wera | drowned in the Sacramento River. near the mouth of Middle Creek, while returning to Keswick from Redding. 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