Show production united states should hun area factories ofelt some interesting being complied by alien president of the nebraska beet sugar association tho united states yearly imports 01 an averlee tone of sugar and produces only tons or one sixth of the total consumption Germany produced tons of last year austria tons france tons tons belgium tons holland tons sweden tons and the united states tone it would take factories of the capacity of now operation in ane country to supply sugar enough to equal the home demand there are now three factories in california and one burldine buil dine ono in utah thoin nebraska one in new mexico a email one in virginia and a newly established wisconsin n germany there are large factories in france and many in loussia and austria an average acre of beet land will yield 2500 pounds of granulated sugar worth the cost of production ranging from 15 to 75 these figures give some idea ot the extent to which the beet industry can be developed in this country without approaching a surplus production as is the case in nearly every other product of our soil |