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Show FARMERS URGED TO PLANT BEETS Full cooperation with the Agricultural Agri-cultural , Conservation program and planting of sugar beeta to qualify for full payments are advised ad-vised by Burton H. Adams, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, chairman of the special spe-cial crops and gardens sections of Utah County Agricultural Planning Plan-ning board. Recommendations for other crops are also contained in the committee's report. It will be included in-cluded in a planning board bock-let bock-let to be mimeographed soon says County Agent S. R. Boswell. "Where farmers have land which will produce 15 tons (of sugar beets) or more per acre we recommend that the acreage be increased in-creased 25 to 40 per cent," says Mr. Adams. County sugar beet production is declining he finds due to decrease in fertility, lack of rotation, insects, in-sects, parasites, disease, smaller families, drought, ana unsausfac- tory contra s. In 1937 7,200 acres were planted. To qualify for full payments farmers should plant new alfalfa or clover, ploy green manure, apply ap-ply one ba per acre of treble super phosphate, and follow the government labor schedule: Blocking Block-ing and thinning per acre, $8; first hoeing, $2.50; second, $1.50; pulling and topping, 90 cents per ton for 12-ton crop. Peas, tomatoes and green bean acreage should remain constant, says Mr. Adams, but must be protected pro-tected by fair contracts. Celery should be protected with a definite market. Potatoes may be raised at a profit under proper rotation practice. Growers of three tons or more are required to obtain ob-tain an allotment from the county Agricultural Conservation committee. |