A. B. Cook. a leading beet grower. said frankly: Cultivating and harvesting beets is not a real American farmers Job. * It Is a toilsome and a dirty job. For many years immigrant labor from Europe was plentiful. It has been cut off by our restrictive immigration policy. a policy not likely to be altered. Sugar growers. not only in the Southwest but in the Middle West as well. have been forced to turn to Mexican labor pushing up from the south. Even this supply will probably not be available indefinitely. Restrictions upon the entry of Mexican labor into the United States have been urged strongly for many years.
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