CHAPTER XVII 

 BEET RAISING AND COMMUNITY WELFARE 



In considering the value of the beet-sugar industry to 

 the community, the indirect benefits of raising beets, as 

 well as the direct value of the crop, should be considered. 

 Those who have made a careful study of the subject are 

 agreed that the introduction of sugar-beets into the 

 agriculture of a region results in good in many ways. 

 In the Eiu^opean countries where beet raising has seen 

 its greatest development, agriculture has a stability not 

 found in the newer countries where sugar-beets have not 

 been introduced. 



Palmer ^ says : " For fifteen years I have made a per- 

 sonal study of the sugar industry in the United States, 

 Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, France, Belgium, 

 Holland, Denmark, Sweden, and some portions of the 

 tropics. In the above named countries of Europe, I 

 have met or studied the wTitings of their leading agricul- 

 turists, economists, and other thinking men, and without 

 exception they state that the culture of sugar-beets 

 raises the standard of their agricultural methods as does 

 no other crop, rids their fields of noxious gro\^i:h, puts 



1 Palmer, Truman G., Journal of the National InstittUe of 

 Social Sdencesy July, 1916. 



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