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One of the great dangers to be avoided is the formation of hasty conclusions ia 

 regard to the proper localities for the production of the sugar-beet. • * » 



It has been found in general that the coast valleys of California, and probably 

 large areas near the coast in Oregon and Washington, certain parts of the Dakotas 

 and Nebraska, localities in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan, parts of 

 Northern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and New York, present favorable conditions for 

 sugar-beet culture, but in the localities thus broadly intimated there are certain re- 

 stricted areas most suitable to the sugar-beet, and it is only these restricted areas to 

 which we must look for success. The fact that in one locality, for instance in 

 Nebraska, good sugar-beets can be produced, would be no warrant whatever for 

 assuming that all parts of that State were equally suitable for this purpose, and this 

 remark may be applied to every one of the States mentioned above. » * * 



If the sugar-beet industry is to succeed in this country this success must come from 

 sharp competition with the same industry in older countries, where its conditions are 

 better understood and where the localities suited to it have been selected by long 

 and often costly experience. It must also compete with the sugar-cane industry, 

 both of this country and of tropical countries, and for this reason we can only expect 

 it to survive in those localities where soil and climatic conditions, proximity of fuel, 

 cheapness of labor, and other favorable environments are found. 



It is hoped that the mistakes which have so long threatened the sorghum-sugar 

 industry with destruction may be avoided with the sugar-beet. Calm judgment and 

 sober reason must not give way to enthusiasm and extravagant expectations. All 

 conditions of success must be carefully studied ; all the difficulties in the way of suc- 

 cess must be intimately investigated and allowed for, and ample capital, coupled with 

 judicious perserverance, must be enlisted in its behalf. 



