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Show THE LEADER. Beet Growers' President Lists Factors To Induce Greater Acreage In Valley By E. J. HOLMGREN Last week I promised you four convincing factors to get farmers to plant more beets in the future. I want to say this, that your directors of our local and state group, who understand the beet problems possibly better than the farmers themselves, feel the necessity of planting more beets this year so urgently that they are going to donate their time during the constracting season and acoom-pan- y the sugar factory representatives to endeavor to get more acreage of beets contracted. I am not being offered any inducement for this little explanation that I am writing for the papers. I am simply doing it as an endeavor to be helpful, first, to the farmers, and next to the sugar factory which I regard as a very important factor to the welfare of this community. First let me suggest that ample labor has been promised for the coming year and in honesty to the type of aborigine help we have secured in our locality, I would like to admit that they have improved much from a year or two ago. I am glad to say that we will need less of them as we can apply more of the mechanical devices which will relieve much of the stoop labor that has been necessary in past years. It is my opinion that much of our best land will be planted to beets this coming season. It is a hopeful thing to know that we will get seed of a more virile variety, with able to sprout at a greater depth, and higher in sugar content and purity. These are positive progesses made by the research department of our Government by the local sugar companies. Our farmers are provided with the advantage of nitrate and phosphates that will produce beets higher in yield than in past experience. I believe that our normal average year tonnage could be raised, to 20 tons per acre. I point out to, you that in the Yakima Valley the past year, though it was dry there too, the average production was computed by me as an actual benefit, but we are all well aware of their value. If you estimate your beet land to be worth $300 an acre, and you believe that 6 per cent is a fair return on that investment you would have $18 an acre for interest for the land. There is a possible cost of $3 an acre for taxes and $2 for water rental, or $23 an acre that should be assessed against the beet enterprise. If you figure your land could be rented for $50 an acre, which I believe is a fair price, you would have $27 profit from that land, and $60 from the beet enterprise, making a total return of $87 per acre from sugar beets. If you figure this on a $300 investment, it would be a total return of 27 V2 per cent on your land. Now I would like you to figure your return from any other crop such as wheat, barley, peas, corn or alfalfa, and I believe your return from beets would compare favorably with every other crop. I would like to mention a few other favorable conditions that are in favor of planting beets. First, Apostle Benson is a western man, well aware of the sugar industry. He knows of its problems and its declining production, and he will do all the law permits to 1 Tmnoaioa, UUh often enjoy but too often neglect to mention. We have been receiving the benefits from having a beet sugar industry in our Valley and I hope we will plant more beets as a positive evidence of that appreciation. E. J. HOLMGREN. N.B. Since these statements were written we have consummated a favorable contract with the company for the 1953 crop. over 22 tons to the acre. I want to mention too, at this time, that they use far more commercial fertilizer to the acre than we do and that partially accounts for their higher yields. Myrl Udy I am going to offer you, at the risk of contradicitions, some Sweetheart's Ball Held cost of production figures that The annual Sweetheart's Ball enter into the budget of the beet of the M.I.A. was held Tuesday business. I cite you the follownight in the recreation hall. e ing costs and you can" abridge Welling was chosen sweetthem to suit yourselves and arheart. She and Bob Brough' rive at a fair conclusion. If danced the sweetheart waltz. you are fortunate you possibly e The family of Mrs. Ruie have your fall plowing done Kennard met together at and even the fertilizer might be the home of Ted Macfarlane in scattered if you were able to buy honor of his birthday one night it this early in the season. Here during the week. are my figures for the cost of Mr. and Mrs. James Miner of production an acre of beets: Salt Lake City visited at the 5.00 $ Plowing home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Ken2.50 Harrowing nard during the week. 18.00 Fertilizer Mr. and Mrs. Deloss Jensen, Seed and Planting. . . 5.80 took Mjrs. Mary Ann Ward to Cultivate - Thinner. . 3.00 Pocatello Friday. She will visit 10.00 Thinning her daughter, Mrs. Vida Howells (To be Adj. by Govt.) for about a month. it. 6.00 Hoeing Mr. and Mrs. George E. Bitter As we . see an . 6.25 . over Cultivating production of nearly all farm commodities of Idaho Falls visited during the 10.00 Irrigating 15 tons. . 25.50 Harvest except sugar we should be par week with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Udy. 15.00 ticularly astute to the coming They made a tour of the Utah Hauling Rental 50.00 problems that are going to over- Temples and were in Salt Lake whelm farmers in the near fu- City Sunday at the testimonial ture. Let me remind you again for Valeea Crowther, who is $157.04 Return from an acre of beets of the depression days of the going to Australia on a mission thirtys when over supply of Monday they stopped on their $ 14.50 Per Ton of Beets grain and other farm products way home. 15 Tons per acre The ladies of the Birthday club reduced our income to terrible and appalling losses. I believe journeyed to Ogden to spend the $217.50 Mrs. Lillian Tingey in In these figures there has that we have this condition day with of been no estimation of the worth coming again. There is one honor All her birthday Wednesmembers were presy day. of the beet tops. I am sure they crop of which we do not in the United States and ent except two and a lovely time could be salvaged for pasture that is sugar. It is a heritage was had by all. Delos Jensen, purposes for sheep or cattle at a that should be ours and extend- Leland Bourne and Jim Ken price of $10.00 per acre. Besides ed to the peons of Cuba. I quote nard took them to Ogden. this return, if you have fifteen Wm. Nina Burnett, Grace Allen and Baxter, one of our greatest tons of beets to the acre you economists said who Udy were in Logan Madge that today, will have three tons of beet 43 millionaires have been made for and windfall that sale, pulp can be sold to your neighbor in the little island of Cuba dur andMr. and Mrs. Myron Richards children were in Ogden ing our good neighbor policy of who feeds cattle, for approx the seven years. This is Wednesday. past ton. imately $1.00 to $1.50 per The Special Interest group of millionaires than are left We are all aware of the worth more in the entire British Isles. Let M.I.A. held a square dance in of the molasses, especially when me remind you again that our the ward hall Friday night A we find that it is so oversub good neighbor policy has prac good crowd enjoyed the dancing scribed in the County that it now becomes necessary to ship tically cost us our domestic in witn La Mar Mason of Tremon-to- n calling the changes. in blackstrap to take care of dustry, and it is time that those Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Barlow of the wants of our feeders. These in charge of the Sugar Branch apply the law as Congress Vale, Oregon visited Mr. and three factors have never been wrote Mrs. Ralph Richards Thursday. It. last year me weather man The ladies are sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Richards gave us some records in ex tended drouth, unusual heat and visited Mr. and Mrs. Nolan Bal"general cussidness". Surely I lard in Benson Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Streator Tingey will not be sticking my neck out too far to predict some respite visited in town Saturday. from the elements. It has been Mr. and Mrs. Myron Richards common practice in our neigh- Mr. and Mrs. Melvin J. Ballard boring states to irrigate land in Benson last week in honor of against the possibility of a spring drouth. This has never been thought desirable in our case, but it might be a safeguard after last year's experience. You have excellent represen tation in J. L. Wiedmann and A. V. Smoot. to protect and adiust our water rights in the Bear River. They have been engaged in this endeavor for a couple of years, attempting to adjudicate the problems of that valuable source of irrigation water. When you meet them, greet them with praise and appreciation for their endeavors because they feel dis p couraged at times to do their work with little recognition or applause. It is true a final settlement has not been made, it is thought necessary now that we engage a lawyer to help us in our cause. This of necessity will incur a lot of expense, so don't be surprised if you have an assessment adjusted against you for this purpose before long. We have one of the finest sources of water in the west and we must guard it or we will lose it to via m m v ,p m m m& the fellows in the high rockies. It seems that a higher water right is more valuable than a prior water right, and we might become second fiddlers to a herThe best, easiest, and lowest cost itage that we once thought could never fail. way to control alfalfa weevil is to I believe I will be safe in in in the adult stage destroy it saying that the coming year will early spring . . . before it lays its be a better year as far as the eggs. From these eggs the destructive is concerned surely it weather larvae come. Apply dieldrin as soon cannot be worse. There is just comes as possible after the weevil one little thing that I would out ot hibernation. like to suggest to the farmers Adult weevils lay eggs when here that they raise a rebutor alfalfa is 1 to 2)4 inches tall tal to the things I have mentioned. If they don't feel I have at the first growth stage. Proper CMriral of the adult alfalfa discussedo the matter fairly. I of the dieldrin treatment, timing weevil in early spring pre hope the beet growers will feel therefore, is of primary importance. vents damage by succeeding free at all time to meet their difenerations of larvae. rectors and learn what has been accomplished in favor of the beet Dieldrin can be applied two ways. For ground applications a business. pound of dosage of 8 gallons of an emulsion containing just Right now we are engaged dieldrin kills the weevils. When applying from the air in adjusting the beet contracts pound of dieldrin in 2 gallons of diesel oil per acre will do the job. for the coming year and I might Alfalfa that has been protected from weevil attack by dieldrin say in fairness that I believe we have the best beet contract in assures higher quality, top yield from first cutting and healthy the United States, and, I hope seed production. that we can renew It in its enSee your local insecticide dealer for supplies and write for tirety for the coming year. We literature and application instructions today. have received many words of praise from those who have Julius Hymen V Company Division knowledge of the matters in reSHELL CHZKICAL CORPORATION gard to the central taring system employed during the past year. CHIMICAl PARTNU Of INDUITIY ANO AOKICUITUM There has been a great deal of f. O. SOX 1171, MNVM 1, COLORADO HwntM tat Anfaloo CMcaff improvement made in the reArimM Yoklmo, Wfc. tt.Uvi New Yard m Tim dies ceiving of beets that farmeri PHONE 2311 Thursday, February 19, 1953 his birthday. Mrs. Inez Johnson, Mrs. Clarice Hirschi, and Mrs. Florence Udy were among the guests at the home of Mrs. Alice Buxton in South Tremonton Friday in honor of her birthday. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Udy and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Kennard were in Salt Lake City Saturday and Sunday visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Forsberg Mr. and Mrs. George Forsberg and Inez Johnson visited in Salt Lake City Sunday. While there they attended the testimonial for Valeea Crowther. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Udy spent Sunday and Monday in Salt Lake City. They attended the testimonial for Valeea Crowther, daughter of Mrs. Udy, who enters the mission home Wednesday prior to leaving for the Australian mission. Re-na- Mac-farlan- . The miracles that come Today, millions enjoy healthful orange juice packed in cans. 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