By beet culture we have not only added needed diversity to our agriculture. but we have developed enough competition to keep sugar prices down. But under present labor conditions the further development of this fine industry is more or less hampered. Beet culture requires hand labor. It is "knee farming." and American farmers are not addicted to that kind of labor. They have depended largely. and In some places wholly. on foreign labor. chiefly Russlian and Mexican. But such labor is no longer available in sufficient supply under our present immigration laws. We shall not be able to make much more progress. unless we devise new machinery to take the place of the manual labor that is now required.
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