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Show GOOD CROP OF SUGAR BEETS ASSURED GROWERS Recent storms and backward weather of the present season should not result in any handicap to beet growers of this district, if past planting experiences can be relied upon. This reassuring word was issued is-sued today by W. Y. Cannon, production pro-duction manager of the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company. Mr. Cannon Can-non cited the year of 1938, when 85 per cent of all beets grown for the company were planted after April 15, for a yield of 15.3 tons to the acre, the highest in recent years. Similar conditions in 1941 resulted in a higher-than-average yield of 13.9 tons to the acre, he I added. The years 1939 and 1942, with early springs, and with nearly 50 per cent of the beets planted before be-fore April 15, produced below-average below-average yields of sugar beets, Mr. Cannon pointed out. The best advice to beet growers grow-ers now is to realize that this year is just one of those years j when everything is late .... shrubs, trees, grasses, and perennials peren-nials of all kinds. If your beets and other seed crops are- not in, don't worry. Take time now to ; make the best seedbed possible, then plant at the first favorable opportunity. If we do this, we are j taking advantage of this excellent excel-lent soil moisture, but if we start rushing preparations and plant ; too wet, our beet crop will start off under difficulties. Take time to do the job right, and don't worry about the calendar. |