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Show Higher Prices Probable j As a result of the action of Cuba and several of the large sugar producing countries in restricting their sugar production for the next several years, and the tenative agreement of the refiners re-finers of the United States to discontinue discon-tinue ruinious concessionary selling practices, it is the opinion of statistic-ans statistic-ans as well informed sugar brokers that , the price of sugar in the United States is due for an increase, and while no hevy advances are expected, it is felt that improvement over the price of 1927 is probable. I Does Your Land Produce Enough? Based on extensive tests. Dr. Ph. Van Harreveld . calculated that if the '. number, of' .food units produced by a' " unit, area of wheat be taken as 100, the same area in rice has a value of 40, in 1 potatoes of 146, and in sugar plants of 305 (average) "with a maximum of 500 which is often attained. Wheat at 100 bushels to the acre (a distinctly uncommon uncom-mon yield) would give 6.000 pounds of dry vegetables matter directly consum- , able by man or beast; sugar beets at 25 j tans (a fairly common yield in good beet farming) give 18,000 pounds of , equivalent nutritive value. Compare j this with the highest yield of rye noted by the United States Department of Agriculture 54.4 bushels, or 3.018.4 lbs One'fairly good crop of sugar beets will feed as many mouths as six m iximum crops of rye or three very exceptional crops of wheat. |