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Show BEET FARMERS CLEAR MILLION'S MIL-LION'S Department of agriculture figures show that beets were the only crop in the U. S. to show a gain in value in 1920. Growers received $24,000,- j iPOO more for their crop than in 910. Al other crops show decline. This remarkable return was due to the high contract price for beets, which was out of all proportion to the selling price of sugar at harvest itime. It speaks well for the sugar factories that they could carry out their contracts under conditions prevailing pre-vailing and illustrates in a striking manner the value of a contract crop! which protects the farmer against violent fluctuations, in the market. Present indications are that the year now beginning will be marked neither by a serious shortage nor by a disconcering oversupply. Prices should strengthen gradually and should show less extreme fluctuations than last year. In fact, so far as can be judged now. 1921 should be more nearly a normal sugar year than any we have had since the beginning be-ginning of the world war. |