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Show HARVEST OF BEETS IS AT ITS HEIGHT Special to The Tribune. AMERICAN FORK. Oct. 24. The public pub-lic schools are closed here this week, sugar beet week, in order to give the farmers and heetgrowers a chance to harvest har-vest their beet crop. Boys from 12 to IS years of age are a great factor in the gathering in of the beet crop, in digging I and topping. The harvest is on at full force, and the factory is working to Its full capacity in grinding out the sugar. There is a shortage short-age of labor this season and the company has had difficulty in getting the required help to bring the factory to its full working work-ing capacity. The company has given the laborers an increase of 10 per cent In pay above last season. |