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...city gardeners, this was the best time of year. They sent the children to bed early, switched off the radio, plugged the telephone bell and settled down for an evening with their dreams. They opened the new seed catalogues with trembling fingers, drank in the intoxicating colors of beet and carrot, rolled the poetry over on their tongues. While winter winds whistled outside, they luxuriated in a gentle world where all tomatoes grow to unblemished perfection, where eight-inch cucumbers are midgets, where every brussels sprout is a sonnet and bugs are never seen...
...been able to take all of it. Shortage of shipping forced this country to reduce its normal consumption and to enforce rationing. Moreover, sugar has been taken in large quantities from Hawaii and from Puerto Rico, where some U.S. ships have to go anyway, and pampered domestic beet and cane producers turned in a record crop. Hence the U.S. carryover in Cuba now amounts to about 1,700,000 tons...
Last week the war against Adolf Hitler had created such a manpower shortage in Canada that Paul Ausborn, who has devoted 20 of his 50 years to fighting Hitler, got a job as a seasonal laborer in a Winnipeg sugar-beet plant...
...Lodi, Calif, last month, Dr. John R. Matchett of the U.S. Department of Agriculture extracted 400 Ib. of tartrates from winery residues merely by running them through "Amberlite," thus opened the way for a possible 1943 production of 10,000,000 Ib. of tartaric acid.* In Idaho, beet sugar refiners are increasing sugar production, reducing by-product molasses with equal simplicity...
...Chiefly because of their large purchases of Utah beet sugar, flour, meats, etc., to be sold in other parts of the country...