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their soil in better condition, increases by 25 to 80 per 
cent the acreage yield of all other crops grown in rota- 
tion, and annually saves them from sending several hun- 
dred million dollars to the tropics to purchase a neces- 
sary food commodity. In no beet country visited was 
there found a disposition to regret its establishment or 
the money it cost to establish it. Germany alone spent 
over $351,000,000 in export bounties in order to encourage 
the industry.” 
STABILITY TO AGRICULTURE 
Wherever the beet-sugar industry is permanently es- 
tablished, agriculture reaches a greater stability than it 
had previously. The fact that the farmer has a sure 
market for his crop at a price known in advance enables 
him to judge more accurately the value of the land. Ex- 
perience shows the approximate yield of beets he may 
expect; and since he knows the costs of producing the 
crop and the returns he is likely to receive from it, he is 
able to calculate rather accurately how much he can af- 
ford to pay for beet land of known quality. This re- 
duces the rapid fluctuation in the price of land that is 
often met in regions where profits are less certain. 
In areas where crops have no regular cash market, it 
is difficult to obtain stability to the agriculture. Many 
fruit-producing sections boom during years of good market, 
and land prices become greatly inflated. This condition 
may be followed by a series of years when no market can 
be secured or when the crop is a failure due to frost or 
some other unfavorable condition. The result is that 
