CHAPTER XVII 
BEET RAISING AND COMMUNITY WELFARE 
In considering the value of the beet-sugar industry to 
the community, the indirect benefits of raising beets, as 
well as the direct value of the crop, should be considered. - 
Those who have made a careful study of the subject are 
agreed that the introduction of sugar-beets into the 
agriculture of a region results in good in many ways. 
In the European countries where beet raising has seen 
its greatest development, agriculture has a stability not 
found in the newer countries where sugar-beets have not 
been introduced. 
Palmer! says: “For fifteen years I have made a per- 
sonal study of the sugar industry in the United States, 
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, France, Belgium, 
Holland, Denmark, Sweden, and some portions of the 
tropics. In the above named countries of Europe, I 
have met or studied the writings of their leading agricul- 
turists, economists, and other thinking men, and without 
exception they state that the culture of sugar-beets 
raises the standard of their agricultural methods as does 
no other crop, rids their fields of noxious growth, puts 
"Palmer, Truman G., Journal of the National Institute of 
Social Sciences, July, 1916. 
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