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The Sugar-Beet in America 



go on till the amount required to supply the world's needs 

 will be several times what it is at present; nor is there 

 any reason to believe that this demand cannot be met 



Fig. 38. — Production of sugar in the United States and possessions. 

 (U. S. Dept. of Agr.) 



easily. Under scientific methods, cane-sugar production 

 in the tropics is capable of very great expansion; the 

 world's entire sugar supply could be obtained from this 

 source if there were no other. 

 The beet-sugar industry is only in its infancy in the 



