Cane vs. Beet 



to eighty dollars per acre from land 

 costing six to fifteen dollars per acre. 



Looking at the situation in this 

 light, it would seem strange that 

 beet should have made the advance 

 it has. But there is another reason 

 for this; the stronghold of the beet 

 is in Germany, Austria, France, Hol- 

 land, and other nations of Central 

 Europe. These nations have a four- 

 fold reason for growing the beet; 

 first, they are far removed from the 

 jungles where cane sugar best grows; 

 second, they have the added incen- 

 tive of a hundred years of develop- 

 ment, improvement and investment 

 in the beet; third, their labor costs 

 are low; fourth, there are no "big- 

 money " crops competing with sugar- 

 cane for the land. 



As to labor, it will be readily un- 

 derstood, that this is a most im- 

 portant item of expense in beet sugar 

 production. 



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