Each of the following European countries produces all the sugar that its people 

 consume, and previous to the war, all but four of these countries were exporters of 

 sugar, viz.: — Germany, Russia, Italy, Denmark, Austria, Holland, Norway, Rumania, 

 France, Spain, Sweden, Bulgaria, Serbia. There are over 1,500 sugar refineries located 

 in the above countries, which, before the war, exported over 2,500,000 tons of sugar. 



In Canada and the United States the industry has been making very favourable 

 strides, and it is expected that in the coming year sufficient acreage will be sown to 

 beets in the United States to insure a beet root crop sufficient to produce 1,000,000 

 tons of refined sugar. The above figures we are sure could easily have been reached in 

 the season just ended had tariff matters been settled earlier in the United States. How- 

 ever, a decision favourable to the beet sugar industry has been made public since, and 

 confidence is again restored. We therefore predict a very heavy increase of the beet 

 sugar production in the United States for many years to come. 



For the year 1914 Canada cultivated 13,000 acres of sugar beets, and produced 

 29,000,000 lbs. of refined sugar; for the year just ended we cultivated 17,000 acres of sugar 

 beets and produced 37,000,000 lbs. of refined sugar, an increase of over 30 per cent. A 

 much larger increase is anticipated for the coming year. With the large beet sugar 

 refinery that is in the course of erection at Chatham, Ont., which alone will have 

 sufficient capacity to take care of 15,000 acres of beets, it is expected that at least 

 30,000 acres will be cultivated in Canada. This should indicate a production of at 

 least 70,000,000 lbs. of the very finest quality of refined sugar that can be manufac- 

 tured anywhere. 



The progress of the sugar beet industry, which in 100 years' time has outgrown 

 the production of the cane sugar, is largely due to the following causes: — 



1st. Intelligent legislation for the home beet sugar industry. 



2nd. Scientific culture of the sugar beet, which has doubled the sugar content. 



3rd. The failure of science to perceptibly increase the sugar content of cane, or 

 in other words, the sugar cane has a long time since reached the limit of its perfection. 



4th. The sugar beet, being a plant that grows in a moderate climate, that is in 

 the most highly civilized portions of the world, has concentrated the efforts of the most 

 scientific investigation and achievement which results in the agricultural improvement 

 of the beet root, as well as in technical invention and scientific discovery, reducing the 

 cost of its manufacture. 



Wherever the sugar beet has been grown in Canada, soils have become richer in 

 fertility. There are several reasons for this; the two main causes are, that to success- 

 fully produce sugar beets, the soil must not only be put in fine tilth, but must be culti- 

 vated during a portion of the growing period, and this further work has nearly as much 

 effect on the succeeding crop as it has on the beet crop. The second reason is that, as 

 a rule, the roots of crops reach only as deep as the land is ploughed, the soil under- 

 neath being hard and infertile. With the introduction of the beet, it is necessary to 

 gradually prepare and plough the soil a little deeper, so that the aerated part of the soil 

 gradually gets from the conventional six or seven inches, to from ten to twelve inches, 

 thus gaining a soil that is well aerated and full of humus to a greater depth than here- 

 tofore, and creating chance for the development of bacterial life, which seems, according 

 to our latest researches, to be the indisputable medium for healthy and thrifty plant 

 growth. The changes thus created in the soil are also the main reasons why the sugar 

 beet as a rotative crop has so greatly increased the production of other soil crops per 

 acre. 



The best teacher in the world is Experience, and since we have now grown sugar 

 beets in Canada for the past fourteen years on a commercial basis, most growers are 

 familiar with the routine work which the cultivation of the crop demands. Each spring 

 the Dominion Sugar Company circularizes all growers, giving them full instructions as 

 to the proper cultivation of the crop, and most of the old growers are just as familiar 

 with methods as we are, and work jointly with us to obtain the highest results the sugar 

 beet can give, both in a direct financial way and also as a soil improver. 



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