Ann Arbor Will Be Specially Favored

this year in the way of good entertainments. Complaint has been made in the past that lecturers on the S. L. A. Course have been ohosen because they were great in their respective flelds and without any rejrard to any ability to lecture. The result hns been that some inen of world wide reputation have given very poor satisfaction. This year the S. L. A. board deter mined to do away with this cause of complaint and it has been tho policy of the board to select only such men ao are able to hold tbeir audiences. A good deal of money has been expended on this year's course. Nanscn al'ne costs $2000. Sousa's band is also very expensive and the other numbers on the course'are by no means cheap. Such an effort to secure good men regardless of cost, deserves and willmeet success. The Choral Uuion course has not yet been announcod as all details are not complete. The Unity Club offers an excellent course this year and so does the Y. M. C. A. Both are high clftbS ourses at a low price. Secretary Wilson. of the Department of Agricultura, is confident that the rssultof this year's experiments withsugar beets will add 300 per cent. to the beet sugar factories of the country. "I know of peoplö who stand ready," said he, in speaking on this subject, "to e6tabliah twenty beet-sugar facto-' ries in this country next year. We aave or.ly half a dozon faetones now. "Our experimiMits this year have been very successfiil. liOur analyses have not progressed euffioiently yet to show very definilely what each section has done or i doing but there is no doubt in my mind o the entire feasibility and practicabiliti of the production of all our sugar ii this country. Tho interest which th farmers of the country have develope in beet raising, the result.3 of sue analyses as have i.lready been made o the beets produced this year and wha we know as to the results in forme yeai'S and as to this year 's erop in the sections where beet pro win g bas already beea developed, show beycrad j questiüii that it is entirely practicable lor the people ot tais eouutry to produce their owq sugar." ' That means tie retention in tho Uaited States of a goud deal of money which novv poes abroad?" 'Ves. A hundred ïnillions is a good , dcai of money, and especial y when it , goes out of the country. If we can dibtributo amonir oui' farmers the hun.dred milHon doliurs which we novv ] eend abroad for our sugar, it will be a very important thinw to them and to ! the couutry iu general. It will be espec ally so to labor. People talk abont labor and about doing thing for labor, ' and for tilo cause oí tho workingman. What caá be doDe more t,o tho ; tage of thc workingman tliau toput into ' his pockets á hundred ínillion dollars which vo send out of the country every year for a single artiole. Tlien add to S that the amount which we send to orther parts of the world for other classes of farm products which might 3e kept at home, aud the total is something j normous. The value of the products : of agriculture which are bro;ght i:'. o the United States and which we might ! produce at home if we were to make the proper effort, is, in round numbei s, $380,000,000 per year. Why not give that to our farmers?" "Wliat is beinjí done, Mr. Secretary, in the way of carDinü tbo result of this year's experimenta witli the beetsufar seed whicb you sent out la=t spriDg?" "We ire gathcring thc beets proiuced from the seeds, by sections aud States intoour experiment stations, atid testing and analyzing thora. These analyses are Roing on coostantly, and I will continua for some weeks or perha m months li is a oomparatlvely bIow procesa, but one wbich will givc ua a ihorough practical and scientilic knowledge of the capabiliües oí the various sections of tlie country for this kind of wovk, and while the analyses have not yet progressed very far, enoujh has been done to satisfy rae that the rssulte oí thisyear's experiments with sugar boetí are going to be very satisfaetory and encouraging. I am confident tilat before the end of anotheryear we shall have tvventv great beet-sugar establishmeuts in operation in the United States, scattered all the vvay from New Vork State to tho Pacific Coast, and produclng large quantities of beet sugar and opening the way to the production by our farmers of at least a large proportion of the sugar for which we now send our inoney abro .