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Show SUGAR CROP SHORT Reports to the United States Sugar Manufacturers' Association Asso-ciation from producing sections throughout the central and western states indicate that the beet-sugar crop of the country this season will lie around 15 per cent below that of last year. If the present estimate is borne out by the completion of tln harvest, it will mean a final output of from 915,000 to 950,-0(H) 950,-0(H) short tons, instead of over 1,000,000 tons, as has been anticipated. anti-cipated. Prolonged dry weather during the growing season appears to be the fundamental reason for the failure of the crop to reach the figure at which it was estimated. The same condition has brought about a shrinkage of '20 per cent or more in the European Europ-ean crop, and to a greater or less extent is affecting sugar production pro-duction in nearly all parts of the world, according to advices "received by facts About Sugar. Regardless of weather conditions or other causes, (lie future fu-ture of the western beet-sugar industry depends upon a reasonable reason-able tariff protection against Foreign-grown sugar crops produced pro-duced with the cheapest kind of labor in competition with the higher-priced workman in the American industry. |
