Show american sugar of 0 s vital 1 aid in t food problem roberi 0 MAW y m not only does cut cd W ti fixation of vegetable increase supply v hut but it adds greatly to J lands fertility increasing area i throughout country devoted to sugar h 1 heets beets successfully 7 W B pe p e skin B it in g s strictly 0 america has he DO an reason real 1 to fear a sugar famine ij chrt Is to sai domestic refineries and their arc sources of raw me ma tormes are ample to in meet I 1 it a all 11 requirements but local consumption and ad native natile PC production are am not going to determine to a entirely the factor of ucb clency we have b are pledged ourselves to help our allies in the matter of food and in the opinion of pe pep tolis sons qualified to ju judge go sugar is 13 a necessary nery ry part pan of if a balanced diet in deed the harder border the body 1 Is worked the more it insists upon that part leit lie hr form of 0 energizing nourishment which sugar contains to a marked de gres gree the war in europe has radically al upset the worlds a sugar supply and ha has affected especially the normal sugar sources of frince england and italy A recent report floan abroad an all bounced that the tha vera more paying 50 cents a P pound it tor far a mixture of sugar and saccharine and even this toning compound could be had only in very small 11 quantities 1 in the administration of the office of food foo d control cc hot specifically pro hibits the tic hoarding rating of sugar and ho fo moderate an amount as twenty pounds in a household ja Is deemed a beald this Is suggestive lid of the rel ill arlve aeve scarcity of if sugar like the tha eng eg lish t the he french are pa ing a very high price for far every purchasable pound of sugar in the country plaint then the the shortage among our or allies must to a large extent be made up from tola this side of the atlantic and ad tile lardo burden u of if the undertaking ad will unite rest upon us the united d states department par part ment manit of nam agriculture R linture has recently 9 given lan out some extremely interesting data cam upon sugar production in the uld united states and foreign countries and a brief analyst analysis ot of the figure brings out the he present situation and the part we have to play in providing a generous percentage of the larking lacking normal sup still p ply it t 1 11 evident th that we cannot do this unless we practice economy and make every spoonful of if a sugar agar count t rot OR on the part of the bid individual would in a short time represent P at a na it total totaling lug hundreds even 1 I thousands thousand of barrels of sugar eager we are being urged I 1 on n all sides old to m merve conserve erve our perishable f mid and the im experts are busy explaining how this is can be done in various ways mays frutti r alt need tor for their preserving and the sugar tor far this 11 service if we bougar are am to be truly economical must mast be drawn from that average supply apply wh which ih ordinarily I 1 is old up in meeting many abor dietary demands the tha american sweet tooth Is going to persist it Is a consequence of ell 1 in marlc tic conditions as well as ot of the physical 1 I activities which are a part of an our national life theor there are those that hae ha preached against sug sugar aas as a food or children but some same 0 f the highest at 1 lor ittes have vigorously declared bat this prejudice Is little better than superstition Pe and an eminent brit brie ss ich h expert has hag said there have hall been few more important additions addition to our 1 1 iran y or whim which ha hae a done more to p promote inota the health of the rising gon gen ration 0 the than our cheap and abundant S supply apply of pure sugar he as bp spoke as ke of course of the sugar market before the war I 1 in n order to make it possible for us to save have in the household it and nd yet to luma have that measure of I 1 ejects 1 I ct to which halh we aro are accustomed the department of agriculture cmittur cmil tur his has issued a bulletin or pla ining just it how I 1 d es of thuu tha nauds ad of us can grow sugar beets and malie wak efrom from them ours ourselves elies a bamble pam pili table ble on and a nutritious for far the table of course cluroe it if anna wants ant to carry the hot boiling ing and CT apor processed pro pra cesse 1111 further the simp can be made to frid ft a dark sugar that eg sugar so it 1 stilted stated will ill be found very satisfactory for home use for many pin purposes 1 1 ai 1 1 for 1 instance 1 n I 1 I 1 in il 11 ahe 1 I 1 pal baiting ki g 0 of f I 1 ie s p pud u d dl dinga g d k cid colored led coke cake ete etc the boat beet oth otherwise roise la is said to be good for far b buckwheat k brat cakes b and ad the III like and tile the making of some candles cand lei and it would probably ten lend d itself admirably to hie put putting OF up of certain fruits it ii bald id that sugar beets beat can b tie grown mu 1 in any aay locality which 1 lias a a soil of pro producing duchi 9 good crop of vegetables anyone having a small adall piece of f fr mile tillable ground rod and the ia ll 11 usual garden ample musio ments Is equipped to grow the b beef a at DeCess necessary decessare arl tor for the pla pio do action of a home supply or of all simp up of com course rae the beeta beet raised in some aoel soils will mill be r richer iche 1 in than when gro grown in others but all 11 sug sugar R I 1 b beets eta it if property properly handled lire are capable abl of A fa few w I 1 rows of hagir bee beata 0 u will ill generally suffice tor far so an ma ample pie supply of simp tor for home use that la is to my aay a bushel of beets will trill produce allyn anywhere here from three to five quarts of S should the amateur at or fir firmer ar raise more beets beeta than he needs for far malting making the he rest of them can be served led upon the table t ble lehen partly parmy groan gramil the entire plant may be used as greens and w be hen mature the roots can he be root cool ed ad an and fi just like garden garde beets they are tender but richer in sugar than the familiar beet sugar beets beet depending upon where planted plin tedi mature in iii from tour four to six months undoubtedly t effly the raising of sugar beets by the people it at large la in tills this fashion would go a long way toward increasing enormously the volume of native sugar or its equivalent a rich a it rup but apart from this the sugar eager belt beit may be confidently counted upon to do no an immense service bervice in fertilizing tile the soil SIR and ad thus adding I 1 greatly III to the abundance of succeeding crops of at other vegetables this ja IS because of the characteristic manner in which tile the roots of sugar beets been bore their way lay deep into the ground labek hen sugar beet culture we waa introduced it into europe the farmers were vores practicing what amt is lnona known as aa the three crop system of rotation three sive cereal crops followed by one ye year I 1 of following fallowing fal lowing the following fallowing fal fall lowing oming to tn order to rest tho the soil and to enable them to pull out ont the dense growth grouth of weeds by to hand nd it Is ig stated that in germany R approximately P pronima proxima la tely sous one third of the total a area r e of at level lo 10 1 I 1 land d was as regarded as be ing too poor to pay for cultivation timi and mi the average yield of cereal crops craps on the tha better lands was 4 but twelve bushels per par act acre they were more plowing but three to four inches deep using fertilizers sparing iv and the feral fertility lity of the thin layer of of loose s surface soil was all 11 but e smiled hausted T the be grain roots is were or unable able to penetrate the hard soil underneath and ad could they have doue done so it would mould hae bale been of no kall aall for containing no DO fumul humul and not having been aerated it was not fertile R being S ing a deep rooter a prerequisite to 1 ideal dent sugar beet culture la Is th tb it the tha 11 oil 1 be stirred to a depth of 6 to I 1 U laches jho the tha tender betit having baling to undergo tile shock of if thinning as soon as it 11 mass up oil I 1 in order to leave have only one beet in a place demanded a well prepared mellow seedbed G gathering tile the sugar in its leaves from the atmosphere by the kid aid at 0 the tha light and nd it up in the root tho the lasur beet would not thrive it if the light icat were air all through b bring being shaded by weeds and rd the eradication littlon of the weeds weeda 19 before re a going to seed meant not only alz further stirring of the soil by cal cultivation ti tic and ad imling hoeing but fields tor far succeeding crops being plowed our otic in the autumn gave an extra till fill plowing abich left the land in condition to also absorb b instead of shed the fall nud and r winter minter rm rams storing up the moisture annual for the following sea season an s crops crept nath the removal of tile the main root myriads of fibrous roots were broken olt off and left tn in the soil to in an estimated estimate average age of a to ton to it tha acre and ad 1 ia rotting they not on only y deposited humus of in the lower strata of the soil but they left minute channels through winch it binate became aerated and hence fertile tile the roots of subsequent crops follo boloin al these interstices and ad drew crew ut talent from two too and till three ere time the dath of the soil formella for meily melly reached and hence benca the farmers a doubled bubl it or tre trebled 1 I 1 cd G their mir toll loll without increasing thele their acreage not hot only that but the succeeding crops bulk became heavier hearts and ad it la IS probably no exaggeration atlon to say that the sugar beet revolutionized german agriculture th tho sugar beet pas pais a handsome return to rn upon the outlay involved andl and depending upon the nature of the soil and the local climate nets eta the firmer auy anywhere hare fona 30 to 10 au an acre acm the tha widespread meas at present under order cultivation ti illustrate how bow admi lidd suited la Is a gleat part of the united states to this department of agriculture |