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Show Americans are fond of sugar and of all things sweetened with it, and our country consumes a greater quantity than any other on the globe the per capita consumption being about 45 pounds, or 225 pounds to the farpjfa-. This insures a practically unlimited home market and with the bounty of two cents a pound paid by the government, govern-ment, ought at least to encourage exhaustive ex-haustive experiments in beet culture in those states where the soil and climate cli-mate promise the best results. |