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Show INCREASE SUGAR BEET ACREAGE Growers Answering Call of Gov , ernment in a Most Commendable Com-mendable Manner. Sugar Companies Have Agreed to Pay an Advanced Price of $1.00 Per Ton , Where an Increase of 10 Per Cent in the Acreage is Secured. The urgent demand for an Incrensed production of sugar prompted the Food Administration to issue a speclul appeal ap-peal for an Increased acreage of sugnr beets. Sugar . Is one 'of the Important war time foods, of which the world Is short. The United States Food Administration Administra-tion has used Its good offices to the end that the price of beets to growers should be aa high as possible, and the sugar companies have agreed to pay an advanced price of $1.00 per ton where an Increase of 10 per cent in the acreage Is secured. In many communities a splendid spirit has developed. . Community pride has caused many of the growers to feel that their "district must "go over the top" In response to the government's govern-ment's call for more sugiir. . In some Instances, the Juniors have rendered splendid aid. A farmer who lived five miles away from the nearest beet dump and there, fore had about concluded that the haul whs too long, was Importuned by ills ten jear old son who Insisted that he wanted two acres of land so he could grow a war crop; he insisted I that he could produce enough sugnr on the two acres to sustain 100 soldiers on a full sugar ration for an entire year, and, furthermore, he would. He got the land and then he had enough cash to buy a Liberty Bond and also , had a; considerable sum for Ids own j bank account from the proceeds of the . beets. Five miles was not too fur for him to haul beets, when the question ques-tion of properly sustaining our soldier sol-dier boys at the front became an Issue. Is-sue. A large amount of field work will be done this season by the boys and Klrls. Last year, there were many illustrations and practical examples set by the younger element ; they learn, d the lesson of thrift as well as Industry. Their help came In a timely wav and saved many harvest fields and' beet, fields when transient labor that should .have been busy in the fields was loitering loi-tering about the streets. |
