Show WAR CROPS HAVE INCREASED I County Agents Boost Hog Production and Sugar Beet Yields In State of Minnesota Prepared by the tho United Slates States Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of Agriculture A 7 per cent Increase In hog production production production tion and a 23 2 per pet cent Increase in sugar beet production over oyer the preceding preceding pre- pre ceding year ear Is the result of campaigns carried curried on this year ear by b county agents In iii Minnesota When the thc call came fo for more moro pork and more sugar as a n war emergency sure surveys s 's were made In those sections of the thc state where hogs are aro raised and where sugar suar beets are grown profitably The count county a agents advised farmers to raise one litter more of pigs and to house and anel feed them properly In spite of the fact that there has been a shortage of corn for feeding and und that a large Jaro number of or brood sows and hogs were sold anti and shipped to neighboring states where corn was more plentiful the increase In production was made A larger Jarger acreage in sugar beets was also secured secured secured se se- cured through the efforts of the agents |