| Show INCREASE SUGAR f B i t r fal ft r BEET ET ACriE AGE growers answering call of government in a most commendable manner sugar companies have agreed to ply pay an advanced price of 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 F food administration to issue sue a special appeal for an increased acreage of gug sugar gar beets sugar is one of 0 the important war ar time lime foudy of which the world is 13 short the united states food administration lias has used its good offices to the end that the price of heets beet to growers should be as high as possible and the sugar companies have agreed to pay an air advanced price of lier ton where an increase of 10 per cent in the acreage Is secured in many communities a splendid spirit lius has developed community pride has caused many of the growers to feel that their district must go over the top in response to the governments call for more sugar in some instances the juniors have rendered splendid ald aid A farmer who lived five miles away from the nearest beet dump and therefore had about concluded that the haul was too long was importuned importuner by ins his ten year old son who insisted that lie wanted two acres of land so lie could grow a war crop lie he insisted that he could produce enough sugar on the two acres to sustain soldiers on afuli sugar ration for an entire year arid and furthermore lie he would ile he got the land and then lie he had enough cash to buy a liberty bond and also had a considerable sum for its ills own bank account rom the proceeds of the heets beets five miles wab not too far for him film to haul beets when the question of properly sustaining our soldier boys at the front became an air issue A large amount of field work will be done tills season by the ilie boys arid and girls last year there berec many illustrations and practical examples set by the younger eleni element ent they learned the lesson of thrift as well as industry indu str v their help t came in a timely dinely way and saved many harvest fields and beet fields when transient labor that eliat should have been busy in the fields was wa loitering about the streets |
