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Excerpt from Indirect Benefits of Sugar-Beet Culture: Letter From and Data Prepared One phase of our all too prevalent vulgar boastfulness would be cured if we but realized that Europe, without Russia the granary of occupying but 45 percent of our surface area, tills double the number of acres of wheat, rye, barley, oats, and potatoes that we till, and from that double area devoted to these five crops their farm ers harvest tour times the number of bushels that our farmers harvest; that of these five crops Europe produces more bushels per capita for their people than we do for our people, and that during the past 30 years Europe has increased her acreage yield of these five crops 75 per cent, while we have increased ours but '8 per cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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