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United States. It also could be extended to many other 
parts of the temperate zone. If necessary, the world’s 
needs for sugar could be supplied from beets, so great is 
the area adapted to raising this crop. With these two 
sources of sugar, it seems reasonable to believe that there 
will be no permanent shortage in this product that is each 
year becoming a more important element in the diet of 
mankind. 
