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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1916)
JUNE. 191 te Omaha a Model Market U e i Strong Word of Commendation from Altnnt Secretary of Agriculture of the United State To speak of a live stock market as being a model for the world la put ting It pretty strong, but that la about the way Hon. Carl Vrooman, assist ant secretary of agriculture, stated It rerirding the Omaha market. Mr. Vrooman, speaking before the Oma hp Commercial Club at a noon lunch eon a fe wweeks ago, mentioned the report made by the Inspectors of the I'nited Slates Department of Agricul ture who had been sent out to In spect live stock markets. He said he bad sent Inspectors out to inspect the live stock markets of the Mis souri valley some time ago to get ideas as to how to better market con ditions, and that their whole recom mendation was wrapped up in the one slogan, "Go and do what Omaha had done," or "Use Omaha's market as a model." The Inspectors were so well im pressed with the exceptionally fine facilities in the Union stock yards In Omaha, the new hog parlors where ail hogs" are protected from every kind of weather, where not a drop of rain or a flake of snow can touch them In the fireproof, concrete quar ters; with the new horse barn, also of concrete and steel, absolutely fire proof; wuli the tn'W sheep barns; with facilities for handling the vast tloi'ks of sheep that annually swarm in there to make this the greatest feeder sheep market In the world, and with all the modern facilities of yardage, that they are today holding up the South Omaha yards and their equipment as models to other mar kets. Mr. Vrooman spoke of business methods also and their relation to agriculture. He said the United States Is destined to assume Indus trial and moral leadership of the world and he declared the business men must bethink themselves as to how they are going to do this and whirl methods to employ. "Shall we assume this position in the world," he asked, "In a way that will make other nations Jealous of ua and make them seek to hamstring this great power, or shall we do It by building up a reputation for honesty and square dealing? It is the spirit of the American business man that la to determine the success or failure of the nation In the future." Sugar Beets in S. D. 1'roMpects that the Growing of Sugar Beets and Making Sugar Will llecome Leading Industry A representative of Tho Nebraska Stockman recently had the pleasure of meeting Fred Mawer and J. J. Flanagan, stockmen of Nlsland, S. D., and from them Becured some In teresting information regarding the development or the sugar beet in dustry In the western part of South Dakota. Experiments have been carried on at the government station at Newell. Sugar beets have been grown there, testing as high as twenty-one per cent, saccharin, which is claimed to be tho highest test of beets produced in any state. This year 500 acres will be planted to sugar beets In five-acre tracts, un der contract with the Western Sugar t'o. More than 10,000 acres will be planted, the farmers of western South Dakota having already sub scribed to contracts for growing a crop In 1917, when a new factory will be erected, the location of which has not yet been announced. It Is sup posed that the object of the sugar company in putting out a hundred five-acre contracts this year, scatter ing the same over a large territory, is to ascertain Just what parts of that country are tea best adapted to the culture of th augar bast, YOU CAN ABSOLU The Interstate Live Stocl (INCORPOl For Results that You We Make Record Sales Our Custor Ship to Us at South Omaii IfU. STICK FOft I R.L. REYNOLD: PRES. HEAD CATTll Al.ESAM III,. P05TU) ;v- 7 VmucC is the CMAMHIOa ONt-LECfctD C70lfC.S Of ill HELP F-'WL AMD VeiGM'TOuf? 57U 'F'AND biT ReTVlRN OUT PROMPTLY TOME 5 A5't I CAT ft (? I IP ITONT TAKE tXTRA ( CARE. OFVOuR lNTtff6VT3 I I DON'T WANT ANY LL PAY, 1 Jk f ; ANY y tfl rJZ'-i OEO.ASHtJUKTlH 3 257 -AT. M . Cfru J V -BsfcW HOGPEPT. I OMAHA h 11 1MI . O u N T R f . 3 S HE'S ONE Of THE I (N THis Stt TiO H I J t THE COoWTCf. j J UiJ fi'SA Even WiiKM 'A I kg HOMF 111 HAN& lj A33I3WNT IT '4 SAHD HILLED VC WHO HAS MAP( V & PRANK -iiJROBE.f?T5 V 11 1 ' d) ' r '""A "t lo HHT rePar",n!? tne- matter: I I j Because of the everva ulting price of print paper manv west-