CROWING MORE MOH SJ LOGAN March h 2 24 That the decline In Jn sU r becq- becq I th in ing in Utah should be as a a. highly unfavorable devel ment in Utah's agriculture view held both by Professor Will win Peterson director and y George Stewart agronomist of J Utah Agricultural college r exp meat station In an Just issued These me men beth somewhat alarmed about tit elded downward trend In Ut I of ot beets during the lay years as a result of ot which ou factories have haye been to o oer er 1 states state In 1919 and 1920 there was af oj I what more than tiran a hundred t th acres of beets in Utah Sin t time there has been a dovard dOl do ward vard trend until in 1927 th c age was was only about 5 to 56 Q the report leport says sas Possibly tI acres of or 1920 was as asmore f fin in w more than our normal J ji r duct would warrant On the oth h hit it is certain that more Ih Ihan acres would be most pr fH both to the sugar i the farmers It is lou U Wrought thought ht th should be able ahle t to 50 acres to very good goon ad tage M i d The importance of sugar be bEC l Utah is brought out by the fil in 1927 more than 1 13 per cen total farm value of ot all crops Utah was derived from in spite of ot the fact that tID cent o og ou our our- cropped area Was vas val beets The principal crops place beets when they are disc diS are alfalfa and gral grai canning cannin peas in certain regions 1927 1921 about 45 cent per of th th cropped acreage in Utah to altaI Car but this amounted t 32 per cent of tire crop Gi 31 per cent f acreage but only 22 per cent of value The crop values on tI age are nearly three times for or sugar beets as for hay and asId u d gf f Canning peas have high ncr aerial acrel 1 but should be so handled as 2 rather rathe-r than to comi with sugar beets