Cane vs. Beet 



It will be seen that the race, as 

 thrilling a one as was ever run in 

 the sport of Kings started neck and 

 neck; beet with its impetus was go- 

 ing strong in the '90s, a length and 

 a half ahead; by the middle of the 

 nineteen-hundreds cane had regained 

 her wind and closed her decade in 

 the lead; since then beet has not 

 been alongside; and if the final fig- 

 ures for 1915-16 were known, her 

 percentage showing, partially be- 

 cause of the curtailment of beet- 

 growing in Germany, Austria, France, 

 and Russia, would quite likely be 

 the poorest in forty years. The esti- 

 mates of Willett & Gray and F. O. 

 Licht are: 



World's 1915-16 Sugar Crop: 

 Cane Beet 



10,333,000 tons 6,306,102 tons 



Let us look into the facts, then, 

 observing the fundamentals under- 

 lying the struggle and see if we can 

 forecast the outcome. 



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