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Show . . PREVENT SUGAR FAMINE. The news bureau of the Manufacturer Manufac-turer at San Francisco, has issued the' following: The war has demonstrated one fact clearly home grown sugar Is feeding the nation. Thirty-five states comprising com-prising four-fifths of total area of the United States must depend on homo grown sugar until the end of the year and a large portion of this area for a much longer period. The beet sugar output comes Just at the season when output from other sources is exhausted. If it were not for American beet sugar supplying the market today, an absolute sugar famine would prevail. And yet a year ago there were agitators agi-tators among tho farmers saying don't raise sugar beets, ostensibly to force Ja higher price. But sugar beets have saved the day and next year the acreage should be greatly increased to. strengthen the industry in-dustry to meet the after-war competition. compe-tition. Reports from different sections of tho west Indicate a favorable reaction towards sugar beet growing as experience experi-ence of many farmers this year with wheat, beau and potato growing did not come up to expectations. |