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Show HIGHER ....YIELDS ..PER ACRE All tho time when tho whole world Is calling for sugar and yet more sugar and when production Is somo millions of tons behind, demand, tho tuestlon of ways and means of In-:reasliiK In-:reasliiK output Is one that no sugar producer can afford to Ignore. There are two possible means of bringing about tilts result. One Is by bringing bring-ing more acres under cultivation; tho other Is by obtaining a higher yield from the present acreage. For years preceding the war Vm-crlcnn Vm-crlcnn farmers plowed, planted nnd cultlavtcd (after a fashion) two acres ac-res of land to obtain tho, same yield that Europeans were getting from one acre. . . With the Jncernnlng farm labor jhorliiRi! the farmers should strive to Increase tonnage per aero plant- C1' |