The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
GREAT INCREASE
 IN BEET SUGAR
ny HOLLAND


 New York, August 14-(Special)- )-from Germany there came to the United states the, formula whereby the sugar property that is in a certain kind of beets car be properly extracted so that sugar can be made and marketed which compares in almost every respect with the beet cane sugar Germany has exported to large amounts to the United States peel sugar which her men of science discov- cred how to secure and to manufacture and many people partook of beet sugar. not knowing that it came from root or tuba and not from the sugar cane
 One result of the European war It Is expected will be a great expansion m the United States in the cultivation o' the sugar beet and in the manufacture of beet sugar. Furthermore there Will probably hereafter be- very small lm- port of beet sugar from Germany. New ertheless the consumption of sugar not only in this country, but everywhere, IS likely greatly to increase from this tune on so that there seems to be encourage ment not only for greater cultivation or the sugar beet in the United States but 1 also in the manufacture of sugar from 1 the sweet and rich juices of this vegeta' l ble.
 ! It is a curious picture which sets forth 1 the availability of various lands in the
 United States for the cultivation of the
 sugar beet Traced upon map Of the i United States by conspicuous oldc> mark or line the entire sugar beet isother- mai belt stretches from the western hall 1 of Massa chusetts and all of Connecticut
 more than half way across the continent 1 with strange projection into Southern Michigan Then of sudden this isother- l hal belt takes a turn like a bend Tn q river, to the south covering the extreme 1 western part of Texas and then another | turn westerly and yet one more nortneriy 1 as far as the state of Washington wi'i. | a side projection which covers all oi !, l,California Pictured forth upon the map | this belt suggests river of magnincehe proportions, of almost uniform but great width and with curious convoutions ana | turns. That part of the belt which is upon the Pacific coast resembles 1 squirrel of stupendous proportions ana with a superb tail which covers Caillor- nia.
 MAKERS OF SUGAR
 With the expected great development U, sugar cane growing in Louisiana ana | nossibly in Southern Florida and witn tbe possibility that beet sugar will be manufactured upon a very large scale having learned from the chemists apo
 men of science how to do that, and also relying as we can properly do on Cuba inc JTnited States should be in position within a few years not only fully to meet domestic demand but also to expor' sugar. THE ISOTHERMAL BELT Arthur, Selwyn- Brown, who IS or eXper' authority in the cultivation and manu- facture of the beet sugar, has recently stated for the information of those IF Washington who desire to get the real facts. that while the sugar beet can pc grown in almost every state in the union and in some parts of Canada nevertne- less the finest commercial crops are naF- vested along a belt which is about a hundred miles in width and which sur rounds the isothermal summer line oi TO degrees Fahrenheit This Is the De's whose unique and convoluted appear ance is pictured for tn on the map Of the United States as described above II starts between Delaware and Maine thence runs west along the Great LakeS even as far as Dakota and then tnere | is a right angle turn to the south as {, far as Texas, then west to California. i, In the far west there are two forks which begin in Arizona One runs north through California to Oregon. the other north through Nevada and Utah to Washing 1 ton and Idaho.
 l FARMERS AND MEN OF SCIENCE
 The beet sugar farmers and the men
 of science have already recognized and