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CIRCULATION 



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ity. This is not due alone to the money reward 

 to the grower. There are several ways in which 

 growing beets differs from the growing of other 

 crops in the ultimate result to our agriculture. 



First The more money handled in a way 

 which puts it into wide circulation, in any busi- 

 ness, the greater is the commercial and social 

 activity. This is the reason that manufacturing 

 and trade centers are prosperous. Growing 

 beets requires intensive cultivation. If a farm- 

 er raises 10 acres of sugar beets as they should be 

 managed, it means the expenditure of $300 to 

 $500, much of which is paid for labor. In a 

 beet-growing community everyone is employed, 

 everyone has some money to spend, and real es- 

 tate, the merchant, the barber, the church and 

 the school respond to the magic. The establish- 

 ment of successful factories have always resulted 

 in improved conditions. 



Second There is an important educational 

 feature about growing beets. The farmer who 

 raises them learns something new about agricul- 

 ture. Some of the underlying principles of his 

 high calling are forcibly brought to mind. He 

 has known in a general way that plants are sen- 

 sitive to conditions of soil and climate. He has 

 read Mark Twain's way of putting it, w 7 hsn he 

 makes Puddin' Head Wilson say: "Training is 

 everything ; the peach was once a bitter almond, 



