Show NATION MAY GET OUT OF CUBAN GRASP Wallace Says U S and Possessions Can Pro Pro- Produce Produce duce Own Sugar PLENTY BEET LANDOne LAND LANDOne One Island Now Controls Price of Product in America By Dr IL COLFAX COP Copyright 1923 1923 1 23 WASHINGTON June With 9 the increase in sugar prices 1 I enU stopped for the thc time being at levels some hat lower than I the peak pe k government In- In In Investigating causes ot of f tho rise and es for tor or the future are aro looking Into the th possibility of oC our raIsing sufficient sugar In the United States and Its Us Island posses posses- possessions possessions to make mak this country lode lode- Independent inde independent pendent of the Cuban supply I 3 It can enn be bt done In tho the opinion ot of Secretary of ot Agriculture Wallace who some torn time alto ago made an In- In Informal Informal In Informal formal survey urvey of ot the situation the tho OC result f C which ho he embodied In Ina Ina a letter addressed to aUDIted a United States tes senator from a western state late 1 Mr fr Wallace asserts that there Is no question but that we hAve In the United States nn an abundance of eC sugar beet land which along with the sugar cane caneland land can be mAde to produce all 1111 ot of the su sugar ar neede to meet our home hame requirements CUD 1 IV II Ii I the th present time more mare than lt hlf the th American sugar supply comes from trem Cuba It Is that part ot of the th supply that led In the reo re- recent re recent cent rise and established the mar r market ket ket prices Cuban sugar co goern- goern go em eminent ment investigators assert sets the price for all 1111 sugar bought and sold In the countr country With Ith an appreciable appreciable Increase in domestic supply there appears little doubt that a market m could be prevent prevent- prevented ed d d hereafter In hl hi his letter Secretary Wallace said Our Our production has hag ben been IncreasIng at the rate rat of ot about 40 short tons per year yar During Durin the fh use the ear ear period 1921 1917 1917 the United States produced annu- annu annually annu annually ally nUy t short tone tans ton of bee sugar and 2 6 short tons if It cane c nc sugar During the same tame pe- pe pr nod we ne received from Porto Rico RIca and anI the Philippines Philippine as- as av average rage t i early shipments of af 1079 i short tons Thu Thus our total 1 home and Island production equals 2186 50 short abort tons tans annually orl or 4 45 s per pcr cent of oC our tot ll consumption At this rate ot of pro pro- pro production therefore wo o a need ned about 2 short tons tOM In addition to our home production t f cane and beet sugar ugar HI m LT ur In In 10 1921 our sU sugar ar bet belt acre acre- acreage acreage ate acre age was about In 1114 tt acres I 1 Is estimated that there thre was excellent additional acres of o excel excel- excel exI lent Int sugar bet hAet land in the states of the tho northwest end and about bout 43 acres acre In states statu state not now new pro pro- pro during producing sugar usar beet Jeet beets all 1111 of ot which r favorable conditions can n he be brought Into satisfactory tion production It Iti segi i mB reasonable today we can add acres acre to our aur beet bet acreage Mat of oC the cline cane sugar r In the th United Louisiana States Stille Is produced In Lou Lou- Lou 22 acres of ot su sugar ar cine ne canet having been ben harvested in that state for production In 1921 TImi as possible as less Iss than tenth one of ot a n ble bie tillable area In these parishes parishes- ha haing in mind the tha area that Is capable of or drainage d A the tive conservative statement ment would mould be tha that it should be possible to drain II 5 million tons of cane cone sugar In Louisiana r 1 r-JJ r lENT The Th foregoing gives fives the th but In answering sour our Question as ns to hether or not it Is la possible for the forthe United States and her hr Insular to produce SuffIcient Sugar Bugar to meet met our aur needs Under durIng that have hav prevailed dur dur- dur log Ing the th past pt 25 years there hils haul beer been a grad gradual lIal Increase In our pro production This Increase can can- of Course be b accelerated by favor favor-abl able economic conditions This all Involves a matter of public policy and should l hive ve full tull con con- conSideration con In connection with the formulation agricultural of oC a national n tur tural l policy for tor the United States a In considering this matter matler the character of ot the th beet crop and Its relation laUon to soil f fertility aa as well ns as the effect et upon the land of oC the the the- sort ort of af cultivation given and the th- 1 value of eC beet tops beet pulp and beet beet molasses for livestock feeding purposes given would of ot course courso be en en due weight wight |