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 
CONTENTS 
Page 
1 
Beet-Sugar Mills in the United States 
Soil 7 
Subsoil 8 
Topography 9 
Climate 10 
Sugar-Beet Stand IS 
Water 19 
Drainage 22 
Seepage . . ■ 24 
Soil Fertility 26 
Crop Rotation 30 
Competing Crops . . . . . . . . 32 
Farm Equipment 35 
Page 
Beet By-Products and Live Stock ... 41 
Labor Problems 42 
The Successful 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 
