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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 995 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



October 14, 1921 



THE BEET-SUGAR INDUSTRY IN THE 



UNITED STATES IN 1920 



By 



C. O. TOWNSEND, Pathologist in Charge 

 Office of Sugar-Plant Investigations 



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CONTENTS 



Beet-Sugar Mills in the United States . 1 



Soil * . 7 



Subsoil . . 8 



Topography 9 



Climate 10 



Sugar-Beet Stand 13 



Water . 19 



Drainage 22 



Seepage 24 



Soil Fertility 26 



Crop Rotation . 3f0 



Competing Crops 32 



Farm Equipment 35 



Page 



Beet By-Products and Live Stock ... 41 



Labor Problems 42 



Thejjuccessfu! Grower 44 ■ 



Diseases 45 



Insects 48 



By-Products . ." 49 



Roads 50 



Contracts 51 



Area Competition : . . 54 



Sugar-Beet Seed 55 



Publications of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture Relating to Sugar 



and Its Production 57 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1921 



