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 82 FACTS ABOUT CROP TREES

without the arduous toil of women and children on hands and knees pulling weeds from among the pesky little beets?

Consider the history of the sugar beet, and it seems perfectly reasonable to picture, fifty years hence, a thousand mountain farm wagons hauling locust beans down to the sugar factory in some Carolina valley.

This sugar factory should also sell thousands of tons of cow feed, rich in protein and having enough molasses left in it to make the cows fight for it.