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Fig. 50. — The two more important commercial sugar crops are cane and beet. The 

 acreage of sorghum cane is greater than that of sugar cane, but the sirup is mostly made 

 from the sorghum on the farm and does not entei- into commerce. Sugar l>eets do not, 

 ia general, show a sufficiently high sugar content to be manufactured profitably where 

 the summer temperature is over 72°, and the beets must also then compete with coru 

 for the farmer's labor. Sugar cane is not grown commercially for sugar outside of the 

 almost frost-free lower Mississippi Delta of Louisiana. The broad belt between the 

 Bugar-beet and sugar-cane areas is occupied by a thin and scattered acreage of sorghum 



