beetfields

Updated: May 7, 2025

In the United States, Louisiana, Texas, and some parts of Florida produce about 6 per cent of what we use, but our dependencies, Porto Rico, the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines all export to us, and together with Cuba, make up the deficiency. The war has changed entirely the peace-time distribution. The map shows what the battle-lines have done to the beetfields of Europe.

Katharine Blunt - Food Guide for War Service at Home : Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover