Tag: Germans from Russia
The First Successful Sugar Beet Factory in the United States?
The First Successful Sugar Beet Factory in the United States? By: Robert M. Harveson, Extension Plant Pathologist ⋅ Star-Herald Farm & Ranch ⋅ February 21, 2016 After gaining a place in Europe, numerous attempts were made to introduce sugar beet production in the United States. The first effort to grow sugar beets was in 1830 in Philadelphia … Read More
When Things Speak: The Beet Knife
Posted May 2nd, 2015 by NET In the 1870s, thousands of Germans from Russia left Russia for the United States. By 1910, the US census counted 13,000 Germans from Russia in Nebraska alone. Diane Wilson says these new immigrants started transitioning to American life by continuing a lot of their own traditions, especially when it came … Read More