Show IXCREASIIYG THEIR ACREAGE Utah County Farmers Arc Glad to liaise Sugar hens Instead of reducing their acreage asa as-a certain class of people predicted would be the case the farmers of Utah county are making 1895 contracts with the utah Sugar company for double their previous tracts of beet lands where the company will accept such agreements And this change is made under a 1 rate per ton for beets instead I in-stead of 5 as in 1894 The inteIJigent j and farseeing farmer of the county on the south has grasped the advantages of the cultivation of sugar beets to the exclusion of other crops and is willing to produce the tubers during the cornIng corn-ing season at a reduction of 1 per ton rather than see the sugar factory closedown close-down for an indefinite period It is i the aim of the company this year to I secure only the very best of the land in the county and for this reason the double contracts are entered into The I factory will be able to take care of the product of about the sam number of acres as in 1891 some 3000 in addition to the farms of the company and that I number is to be contracted for The indications are that the cultivation of the beets will be in fewer hands than during the past year by reason of the culling out of the undesirable tracts but the same number of idle hands will be given employment > fo complaints are being made to the company by reason of the cut in the price of the beets for the people fully realized tit t-it was that or nothing They therefore decided to retire from the cultivation of the ordinary farm products in such large quantities and devote the time to the raising of the sugar beets This decision will prove of advantage to the farmers in the other counties of the territory for it retires from use as grain and produce lands 3000 acres of very productive soil and in consequence cuts down the production of the ordinary ordi-nary farm products General Manager Cutler of the company com-pany was in the city yesterday and stated that therecent heavy sales have cut down the sugar surplus held here and in Lehi to below 1500000 pounds There has been no recent change in prices and the outlook for any is not promising Several of the Salt Lake merchants are making quite a run of I Utah sugar the competition being brought about by the announcement made by a Main street merchant that he would give fifty pounds of sugar it is Western Refinery productfor one dollar in the purchase of 10 wQrth of certain goods held by liim in stock This would make the price of sugar 2 per bag but another institution figured out that it could give the same goods for 975 and still hold its Utah sugar at the regulation price of 5 per bag But the climax was reached yesterday when a Second South street house putout put-out a poster offering to give more > I I 2 c J1f iJ 1 1fi goods for the 10 aIid throwing in as a present thirty pounds of Utah sugar 301 |