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Show Sugar from Beet Crop Would Fill Rose Bowl Not a snow pile in California, but the Rose Bowl at Pasadena r.s it would appear if filled with the sugar expected from the nation's 1S32 sugar beet harvest. A crop of eight million tons of sugar beets is predicted. THE Rose Bowl, monster stadium at Pasadena. Californ'a. could be filled to overflowing with the sugar which will be extracted from . the nation's 1932 sugar beet crop. With 813,000 acres under cultivation cultiva-tion in the United States, crop statisticians predict that more than eight million tons of beets will bo harvested This promises a sugar output in excess of 1 100.000 tons. Poured into the Pasadena amphitheater, am-phitheater, this quantity of sugar would fill every niche and cranny of its more than 17 million cubic feet and mount above the rims in a white peak, rivaling the beauty of the snow-covered tops of nearby mountains. According to the United States Beet Sugar Association, more than 39,000 freight cars . will be required to transport this sugar, at 28 tons to the car. from the extraction ex-traction factories to points of distribution dis-tribution Used as flavoring this sugar would sweeten a cup of coffee, al- most halt as large as Croton Lake Reservoir,'-, source of water supply for is'ew York City, with a thirty-three thirty-three thousand million gallon capacity; or it would provide five teaspoonsful of sweetening a day for every man, woman and child in the United States for an entire year. Cash returns to the farmers, whose beets will yield this tremendous tre-mendous quantity of home-grown and home-manufactured sugar, are expected to amount to more than $50,000,000. In addition by-products of sugar beet cultivation will supply food for several hundred thousand head of cattle. Iu the production of the sugar, including cultivation, harvesting and manufacture, more than 200,-000 200,-000 persons will be afforded employment. em-ployment. States in which these activities are carried on include California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Montana, Wyoming, Iowa, South Dakota, . Washington, Michigan, Ohio and Oregon. |