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Show Ijl DEMAND INCREASE k !:? Growers of Cache County Will '$1 Present New Scale to Fae- , .'i tory Officials. ' FLAT RATE OF $5 A TON . ( ? WILL BE PRICE ASKED ' ' .M Farmers Say They Can Make ! More Money by Growing Po- , .;J tafocs anil Hay on Land, 'i-'wfil Special to Tho Trlhunc. yttfm LOGAN, Feb. 1. The Bupnr boot 'f'-fll growers of tho southorn part of tho county mot today at Smithficld to dis- 'f-vi cuss ne proposed domand for an in- Ifflt crease in tho prico of sucar boois. The 'M mcetinjr lasted from 11 till 3:30 o'clock, i ; It was deoided that a demand bo pro- 1 1 Fonted to tho sugar factory people for J ijl a flat rate of $5 a ton. Beots aro now jf bringing $4.25 and $1.50, A committee .'11 was appointed to confer with tho fac- s'i iory interests. This committee consists . of A. L. Hover of Lcwistou, Honry ' : - yl Hnncev of llvdo Park, and J. B. Wood- II . '- ward of 'Wellavillo. A meeting of the sucar beet growers j of the northern end of the county was I ' Js recently held, at which action was taken ijl similar to that taken by the south-end li 1 ' 'v'j growers today. Tho proposition is for F ! the north-end and tho south-end peo- ' pie to act in accord and to present their " ' V grievances together. A mooting of tho VjjjS committees representing tho southern -.'fg section and the northern section will : ' moot at Smithficld tomorrow to outline I ,.i9 a definite course, j . Growers Axe Dissatisfied. , 'ijfjS There has been growing dissatisfac- 'i ..'-My tion among tho growers of sugar beets j ''-is 'n this section for a long time. The 'Us farmers declare that they can put their :& land to more profitable uso by growing - 4ll potatoes and hay. "With hay at tho pre JJ a vailing high prices, tho product of the I ..i2 hay field, thoy say, certainly is of incom- t 4 t'r parably greater value than the growing ' V'MK of sugar beots. Somo of the farmers also : -'vt nr0 tnlkinpr about extending tho uso of ril ne anf' -or fruitgrowing, so much have i 'JJI thoy becomo discouraged by reason of I 'l:'3o rn0 ow Pr'cca no sugar factory has Jj'.'j been willing to pay for their beets. M ;, jM"orcovcr, it is said in not a few Ju'H quarters, tho sugar factory people have oompollod the farmers to throw their '"nB beets out of the ground and info heaps, HC whero they lny for weeks, on the pre- v tense that the factory is congested be- "A'tiB yond its capacity, permitting the mois- !s ture to evaporate, and consequently re- 11 ;fiv l ducing the weight of the beets. , . j.jg Whon tho sugar factory officers think '(J ! the evaporation has sufficiently pro-grossed pro-grossed and that tho weight of tho beet I vVi I has been reduced to the minimum, .they : '.," J announce that tho "congestion at. the ' : 'c & factor' has been so far relieved as to ! UjS enable tho factorv to liandlc a few more bag tons." jl IC evaporation process, it is said, tmh oos n0 acc'' Me valu of tho beet ! ' 'it'nB or suCftrTnaking, purposes, as the sac- ''w I charinc matter is not lost none of it j I through evaporation. But tho farmer W dQes not get paid for the beet as it is I 21 pulled, and the aggregate loss to him 5 " through this schome is immense. vh4''i It appears to bo tho sentiment fo'h' throughout the Cache valloy that the J'$j bectgrowcr has been "tho goat" long 'Jjjf' ' enough, and that if tho sugar factorv , - ''ft persists in its unfair and unwarranted ( ll ill-treatment of tho growor, the sugar I ,S factory will soon have an excollent op- I J ;p portunitv to look elsewhere for its sup- 1. 5 1 ply of bcots- |