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Show BEET SUGAR DECREASE NOTED Production for 1921 Is 83,532 Tons Under Production of 1920 Washington. Ileet sugar production produc-tion for 1021 amounted to l,020,48;i short tons, Soeretury Wallace nn-joimcod nn-joimcod Thursday, adding that this imuunt was 08A'"- tons leas than tho production of 10'JO. The augur boot irea of 1021 grew on 814,083 acres, an area that wns S0,0$3 acres loss than that of 1020, nnd, It was said, the report was tho result of enumeration mil not of estimating. Farmers received $40,15-1,000 for tho ",782,000 tons of tho beet sugar crop "or 1021, which afforded nn average, of ?J0 pw m-ro and $0.32 per ton, irnd the price por ton wns said to bo as low ns In 1010. Ninety-two fnctorios wore In operation for seventy-six dajs m the average, It was said, nnd the .'ruction of sucross actually extracted was 13.70 per cent of the weight of beets, as compared with an average of lU-Vi per cent for the years 1015-20. |