Show sugar beets america consumes ever more and more of sugar per capita in 1910 11 she used pounds per person in 1929 30 1102 pounds the country does not produce the bulk of this sugar its cost represents one of the heaviest drains from our national pocketbook pocket boob with rising consumption of the commodity per capita and with fewer horses to which to feed grains in the industrial and port regions the question Is what lands in our national system of agriculture ri can be demoted to sugar beets rather than cereals so that our country vill nill support more american growers and fewer cuban peons geons working not for themselves but for the great sugar planters to whom we also pay our heavy tribute idaho idabo farmer |