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Show KILL ANTI-SUGAR-BEET PROPAGANDA. PROPA-GANDA. (From Scientific American, Mar. 30.) A very definite and insidious propaganda pro-paganda against tlie growing of sugar beets is now show ing its effects in our Western States and Federal Food Administrators in the States and1 counties where sugar beets are grown may well be on the lookout for this propaganda and be prompt in killing it. The general effect is to discourage the beet farmer and reduce acreage, chiefly by predicting unprofitable prices for sugar beets next fall. Any reduction in our' sugar beet acreage would serve two purposes for. Germany Ger-many first, a direct shrinkage in this war-time crop; second, tlie crippling crip-pling of our industry for the advantage advan-tage of German beet sugar. Since the war we have made this country independent inde-pendent of Germans for sugar beet seed, replacing inferior Russian strains formerly sold us by Germany with pedigreed seed of our o-vp breeding. We must make our country count-ry as nearly independent of outside sources of sugar supply as possible. |