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Show GREAT INCREASE IN ACREAGE OF BEETS Northern Utah and Southern South-ern Idaho Farmers Turn to Profitable Crops. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Feb. 27. An increase of not less than 50 per cent, and possibly 75 per cent, is the estimate placed by off!-dials off!-dials of sugar companies on the amount of acreage that will be devoted to the growing of sugar beets in northern Utah and southern Idaho for the coming season. sea-son. The belief is based largely on the fact that virtually four new sugar factories fac-tories must lie supplied, and the failure of other crops Is influencing the farmers to turn their attention to beets. The new factories that will commence operations in the fall are those of the Lay ton H-ugar company at Lay ton. the Utah-Idaho Sugar company's new plant at Erigham City and the fifth factory of the Amalgamated Sugar company at Twin FSilS, Idaho. Added to these will be the S00-ton increase in the daily capacity of the Amalgamated factory In this city. Officers of the Amalgamated company believe that between 8000 and 9000 acres of beets will be grown this year for each of Its Idaho plants, at Burley and Twin Falls. Increased acreage in the Lewiston and Logan districts precludes the shipment ship-ment of beets from the Ogden district' to the northern plants, so it was decided to increase the plant here from its capacity ca-pacity of 700 tons daily to 1200 tons. Field superintendents report big Increases In-creases in the Weber county acreage for this season, and believe that the Ogden factory will be operated to its capacity, in spite of the fact that beet territory was lost to both the new factories on the north and south. |