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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 



