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Show SUGAR BEET ACREAGE WILL BE INCREASED Announcement Is Made by D. D. McKay, Mc-Kay, president of the Utan State Farm Bureau. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. Feb. 0. That the;e ill be an increase in the sugar beet acreage of almost al-most :jj per cent was the statement given at the meeting of the Weber county farm I bureau today by President D. D. McKay ! of the Utah state farm bureau. The state-' state-' nient of Mr. McKay was given in review-1 review-1 ins the reply of the beetgrowere to the i government's appeal for an increased j acreage. ! The meeting of the local farm bureau : was for the purpose of selecting the working work-ing committees for the following subjects: sub-jects: Drainage, livestock, weed eradication, eradi-cation, tomaiot. cost of producing crops, t.oU improvements, marketing, rural credit?, cred-it?, labor and membership. The bureau alto went on record as fa-vorinc: fa-vorinc: a plan by which the growers will i icn tin t:u- contracts for boet acreage j r.t the office of the farm bureau and not j by the individual grower with the suear :ompatty officials. It was announced lhat a meeting of the sugar ecmpany officials of-ficials and t lie commit tee of the fa rm bureau would be held next Thursday at whi-'h time the final details for the year will be considered. J. W. Jones of tne department of agriculture will attend the meeting. The following is a list of tiie commit-, fes of the bureau named: I'oiatovs, C. A- Orowberg; hogs, Thomas Fowles; beef cattle. IT. R Stall-incs; Stall-incs; poultry, not named: dairying, T. 1. Powell: drainage. J. L. nob.on: weed.-t, P. P. McKay : fa nn management, M. K. .Iac.l.v; nilgai- beets, J. K. lieu?; eanninar. M. F. Brow n ; bu ing and selling. R. T. Uhp; finance. T. R. Jones, financing hmvau, serj and supplies, rural credits; membership. M. K. Jacobs, labor, B. t. Jd'.Ot'S. |