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Show A VALUABLE CROP Eefuse from sugar beet production that was formerly former-ly regarded as useless, is providing farmers and manufacturers manufac-turers with a substantial revenue. Beet tops cut from the plant at harvest time are now fed to livestock and many farmers are averaging $10 per acre selling these tops to ranchers. In the vicinity of the fields and factories the tops are fed wet to sheep and cattle and the surplus is dried and sent to other stock-raising areas. The molasses remaining from the refining process is used in making alcohol or is mixed in stock feeds. Even the lime cake, a by-product of manufacture, has been found valuable to open up a closely knit soil. Sugar beets are one of the most valuable of all crops. Not only are they profitable oTrectly but they are of inestimable in-estimable benefit in enriching soil. Surveys have shown that soils have often yielded an increase of 50 to 80 pet. in the tonnage of other crops, after having been used for sugar beets. Encouragement of this potentially great industry by an adequate tariff on imported sugar, will give greater prosperity to manufacturers and farmers; and, perhaps even more important, will protect us from foreign sugar monopolies. |