Show I Dl DEVELOPMENT E T OF THE TIlE SUGAR INDUSTRY The Western states have become the the h backbone of the sugar industry there land and there are said to be seventeen beet sugar industries under con con- War prices of sugar undoubtedly stimulate this great movement and the acreage devoted to beet culture is being rapidly expended west of the mountains Owing to severe weather conditions conditions conditions condi condi- and shortage of feed the cattle and sheep industry has been decimated decimated decimated in many states and beet pulp will be a great help There is no industry that is so completely identified with the soil and so completely returns to the farmers material for successful diversified di- di diversified diversified di di- versified agriculture It employs labor on the farms labor at the factory and labor on the ranges while adding to the food resources re- re resources re re- sources of the nation more than any anyone anyone one ono line of manufacture The sugar industry has made the United States independent of Europe Europe Europe Eur Eur- ope and the exportation of at sugar to the allies alUes engaged In war will be on ona ona a larger scale than ever |