Excerpt from Methods and Benefits of Growing Sugar Beets
Nothing can be more apparent than the evolution of system and the improvement of methods taking place in the beet-sugar sections of the country. The influence of this industry is affecting the industrial and social status of every community possessing a sugar factory. In the neighborhoods surrounding our older factories this change is observed by travelers and tourists from other parts.
The growing of sugar beets is started first as an experiment on the part of the farmers; next it becomes a sort of a rotation crop, and finally becomes leading staple crop, and its influence becomes dominant. In the agriculture of the community.
A sugar factory is built up in a hitherto quiet agricultural com munity and it becomes an intensifier of all interests. Gradually the, whole farming community is drawn into the work of producing its supply of beets. Every programme of the farm is eventually based upon the accomplishment of this object. The years roll on, and the children born into this agricultural community become. Adepts in the work. They have absorbed every detail of the relation of this indus try to themselves. It is their bread and butter, their employment. Their constant subject of business discussion; its fortunes are theirs. It is the inspiration of their lives Every advantage it presents is known and appreciated by them.
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