Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1918 — SUGAR: PRODUCE MORE AND SUBSTITUTE, ADVISE SPECIALISTS. [ARTICLE]

SUGAR: PRODUCE MORE AND SUBSTITUTE, ADVISE SPECIALISTS.

Satisfactory substitutes for sugar may be used to a much larger extent. says a’ paragraph In the department of agriculture’s agricultural production program for 1918, which will be of Interest to the housewife. While urging maintenance of the acreage of sugar cane and sugar beets and increases where these crops are well established or are necessary to sound agricultural practice, the program states that an expensive increase in 1918 is not possible because of the time required to grow seed cane stock and because of the limited amount of beet seed available. The larger use of sorghum, corn and cane sirup, maple sugar and .sirup, and honey Is urged. The maple sirnp and sugar production can nnd should be increased in those areas in which maple trees are growing in sufficient nmrliers to warrant the expenditure of the necessary time and labor. Maple sirup and sugar are produced In 19 states, the annual output exceeding 14.000,000 pounds of sugar and 4.000.000 gallons of sirup. Those figures can be increased. The production of sorghum sirup in 1917 exceeded that in 1916 by nearly 4,000.000 gallons. Sorghum sirup may be produced In nearly every state in the Union, and an increased production of sorghum sirup will enable the public still further to conserve-the sugar supply in the most available form for transportation to our soidiera.