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Show SUGAR 0EET ALLOTDTS HEADY Individual sugar beet acreage allotments will be going out to the growers of Cache county by March 6, Sterling Jones, member mem-ber of the county AAA committee, announced Wednesday. He said that the committee on sugar beet allotments are meeting in Logan, the week of March 3, to determine deter-mine these allotments. The individual allotments will be based on both the acreage which has been seeded to sugar beets on the land for which the allotment is being made and on the acreage of beets the grower has been planting during the past three ' years. The national sugar beet acreage has been reduced 16.2 per cent from the 1940 seeded acreage and the reduction in Cache county is in line with that reduction, Mr. Jones said. It has been estimated that a total of 805,000 acres will produce a quantity of sugar sufficient to meet the quota which has been set up by the sugar act for the sugar beet area, but because of shrinkage which takes place in the distribution of this total acreage ac-reage the allotment has been set at 820,000 acres. Under the provisions pro-visions of the 1937 act, the initial ini-tial marketing quota for the beet area for 1941 is 1,549,898 tons of sugar, raw value. The quota limits the amount of sugar that can be sold on the domestic market mar-ket and the sugar beet allotments r hfinn- set to bring production in line with the amount of sugar which can be marketed. The 1941 reduction, Is the first to be made in the total beet atea since the sugar programs began in 1934. However, other sugar producing produc-ing ' areas have been taking reduction re-duction right along. The mainland cane area was reduced 25 per cent in 1939 from the 1938 crop, Puerto Rican sugar producers re- duced their proautuuu w mately 30 per cent under the first sugar programs launched in that area and have made adjustments downward in the 'production in nearly every year stace. Hawaiian sugar production was reduced 10 p. cent early in the program 2nd has remained at that lower level under the sugar act The PhilUpines have reduced 55 per cent. Under the provision of the sugar act which esthshes a for do mes Sc sugar quotas, imports from Cuba to ?940 were the lowest level in almost 30 yeas. In the period 1922 to 196. Cuba contributed .2 per cent of the total amount consumed In the United SUtes. Her share under the sugar act is 28.6 per cent. |