Show 0 KUSIAN SUGAR SITUATION according to advices advises received by lamborn co from europe the russian sugar industry has disintegrated te to a degree inconceivable to those in touch with conditions famine conditions prevail their correspondent writes when you consider that it took france years to develop her ii lu coustry austry under high protection to lu tile me point of practically her consumptive demand you can well understand that those who ullo talk about re lishing such an industry in two years or at the outside three must be well nigh crazy with defeat of bolshevism she you may look forward to the greatest demand the world has ever known from russia I 1 believe russia would take not less than tons it if it were in the very first year of stable government I 1 am satis satisfied fled that it if it were available france would use 1000 tons per annum instead of her prewar pre war consumption russia before the war was regarded as a menace to the sugar industry in other countries because of her low cost of production due to cheap labor and her vast areas susceptible to cultivation now is the time for american farmers and american beet sugar producers to so thoroughly develop and establish the western beet sugar industry that it will forever more be able to meet competition our state and national governments should do everything possible to encourage and perpetuate this industry which has twice in past three years saved a sugar famine in fix this nation |