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CAMPBELL S SOIL CULTURE MANUAL 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



SUGAR BEET GROWING. 



All honor to those who have been doing much in recent 

 years to develop in the semi-arid belt as well as elsewhere 

 in the states the new industry of making sugar from beets. 

 Nearly everyone is aware of the fact that there is now 

 manufactured in this country a great deal of sugar from 

 beets; but few realize the enormous quantities of sugar 

 made each and every year west of the Mississippi river. 

 The consumption of sugar is increasing rapidly, and the 



Thinning Sugar Beets. 



