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Show INCREASE SUGAR BEET ACREAGE Growers Answering Call of Government Gov-ernment in a Most Commendable Com-mendable Manner. Sugar Companies Have Agreed to Pay an Advanced Price of $1.00 Per Ton Where an Increase of 10 Per Cent in the Acreage is Secured. The urgent demand for an increased production of sugar prompted the Food Administration to issue a special appeal ap-peal for an increased acreage of sugar beets. Sugar is one of the important war time foods, of which the world is short. The United States Food Administration Administra-tion has used its good offices to . the end that the price of beets to growers should be as high as possible, and the sugar companies have agreed to pay an advanced price of $1.00 per ton where an increase of 10 per cent in the acreage is secured. In many communities a , splendid spirit has developed. Community pride has caused many of the growers to feel that their district must "go over the top" in response to tlie government's govern-ment's call for more sugar. In some Instances, the juniors have rendered splendid aid. A farmer who lived five miles away from the nearest beet dump and therefore there-fore had about concluded that the haul was too long, was importuned by bis ten year old son who insisted that he wanted two acres of hind so he could grow a Avar crop.; he insisted that he could produce enough sugar on the two acres to sustain 100 soldiers on a full sugar ration for an entire year, and, furthermore, he would. He got the land and then he had enough cash to buy a Liberty bond and also had a considerable sum' for his owu t bank account from the proceeds of the beets. Five miles was not too far for him to haul beets, when the question ques-tion of properly sustaining our soldier sol-dier boys at the front became an issue. is-sue. A large amount of field work will be done this season by the boys and girls. Last year, there were many illustrations and practical examples set by the younger element ; they learned the lesson of thrift as well as industry. Their help came in a timely way and saved many harvest fields and beet fields when transient labor that should have been busy in the fields was loitering loi-tering about the streets. |