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Show PLAN 10 INCREASE mm output Active Co-operation t Between Be-tween Government and Growers to Be Arranged. Actvp work toward im-roasini; tho su.U.'ir beet product ion in Ut ah this year is to be hejiin at once, under direction of .!. A. Brock of Washington, D. ('., suyar director of t. ho national food administration, ad-ministration, working with James V. .Jones of the local federal sugar beet investigation. Mr. .Brock arrived in Salt Lake yesterday, yes-terday, after a. visit to Locan, where lie was in eonsuitat ion wit h officials of the Utah Agricultural college, ami ho has been detailed to this state primarily pri-marily to co-operate with the state farm bureau, designated as a medium through which the government will act in securing an increased sugar beet acreage, and to promote, as far as possible, pos-sible, diversified farming and more efficient methods of sugar production. He will conduct his work under the supervision of the state food administrator, adminis-trator, and he will deliver a series of lectures on sugar beet culture in Utah and Idaho. "The condition of the sugar beet industry in Utah is the best that has vet come to my attention," said Mr. Brock yesterday, "ami this is due largoly to the assistance offered to beet growers by Mr. Jones, and cooperation co-operation between tlio sugar beet producers pro-ducers and tho sugar companies. "In the recent investigations the sugar companies acted fairly anil unhesitatingly un-hesitatingly opened thoir books to the farm bureaus, presenting statistics and data covering every phase of the industry, in-dustry, and showed the farmers many ' things which previously they had failed to recognize. They showed their willingness to co-operate with the farm bureaus in reaching fair conclusions. ' ' At present the west has a largotquan-t.ity largotquan-t.ity of boet sugar stored, enough, it is said, to relieve the shortage of the east, but continued shortage of cars iu which to ship the product east hinders relief of the eastern shortage and the western surplus. It is estimated by local sugar men that there are not less than 1,000,000 bags of sugar stored in plants of Utah anil Idaho which could bo sent east to relieve the shortage thoro if there were ample shipping facilities. S. 11. Love, member of the sugar distributing committee com-mittee of the federal food administration, administra-tion, says that car shortage continues to hamper sugar distribution. |