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Show L'J" " mm,mmmmm i i--i-mi(ii i mrnim jp,,.iENpER:: fc'f The Stoker that gives you 1! ciean' emfortab,e; even i1Ixm MWMWli HEAT, for less money than yON OURXlullUj j;?0i:f any other method of home IBUDGETIlir ":m hea,i"9- Call 6S9W ' :i ypLANyxi call , , i ,,,, , . V ,1 M.M, I M , , MIMIH HJORTH BROTHERS Tfie following statement has beta malice! to fceet growers of this district. It M reproduced here to acquaint the public with our problems and for the benefit of other farmers who are interested in sugar beets for 1947 1947 Production Goals for Sugar Beets Announced PRODUCTION GOALS for Beet sugar as set by the Government for 1947 are the largest n record. The B production goal of sugar beets for 1947 has been announced as 1,057,000 acres which should produce 1,900,-000 1,900,-000 tons of refined sugar. This production is so vital that assurance has been given that the government will do all that can be done to make it possible for the sugar beet industry to reach this goal. The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company believes that it is of mutual importance to both the processor and the grower to meet out full allotment of sugar production. Therefore, the Company wants to be well informed of your needs for 1947 and take all possible steps to help you provide for those needs. During the next thirty days we are asking your company Fieldman to contact you and check over your 1947 needs so that action can be started on them now. You can facilitate the gathering of this information if you will contact your company com-pany representative as the opportunity arises. The following brief discussion of some of the Important questions you and the Company must answer is presented in , the hope that it will stimulate your thinking and place you in a better position to know what your needs are and how they might best be met. 1 HOW many acres Of beefs will you plant in 1947? year. To produce this amount on the farm it would be necessary to , . . , , , , . . ... , , fatten 1,000 lambs for 120 days, or 100 head of cattle for 134 days. Thts quesuon must be answered before t is possible to adequately of course requires study piling. Farmers who do not survey your requirements for machinery, labor, seed and fertilizer. tQ Ae full of a attening operation at first can usually The Company stands ready to work with you to the fullest extent m feej uock oa a contract or gain basis in cooperation with corn-helping corn-helping you meet your requirements if we can arrive at proper basis mercial feeders. I for evaluating them. PULP I 2 What Will be VOUr machinery needs? . Sugar beet by-products are an important and economical feed ' m any fattening program. Beet pulp and beet molasses is widely H a. PLANTING EQUIPMENT. The Company Has taken the used. The Company is installing pulp driers at each of their factories B lead in the entire sugar beet industry in developing and making avail- as rapidly as they can be obtained. This will make this valuable feed B able to growers seed of the highest quality and precision planters. available to a larger number of growers and make it available through- B These two factors have greatly reduced the spring labor requirements out the feeding period. and lengthened the period over which the thinning operation may be RFFTTfiP carried on. Several implement manufacturers will have available new precision type drills for 1947. Conversion bundles for use in 'con- Beet tops are the most widely misused feed that a farmer has I verting certain plate-feed beet drills to precision planters will also be available. Beet tops are frequently sold for from 50 to 75 cents per available. Your Fieldman can advise you. The Company will make ton of beets. Some farmers this year will realize 3.00 for the tops of its shop facilities available at cost for repairing or making conversions each ton of beets they produce. Just how much of this 3.00 per ton of your present drilling equipment. you get largely depends on you. If you sell your tops to be pastured in the field you will likely realize the smallest amount for them. If b. SIDE-DRESSING EQUIPMENT FOR COMMERCIAL you feed your own tops, the method in which you feed them will largely, FERTILIZERS. Commercial fertilizers are most efficiently utilized determine your return. Tops should be fed at the feed lot, either as by row crops when applied in a band along side the row. Experimental dried tops or silage. You get the most value out of your tops as silage, work has shown that 100 pounds of fertilizer applied in a band with Beet tops are easily made into silage. Merely pile them while they are a side-dressing machine is frequently as beneficial as 200 pounds as green and clean as you can in racks 10 to 12 feet wide and with fl applied broadcast. The Company has built several hundred side- a settled height of 6 to 8 feet. At present feed prices the tops from H dressing attachments on farmers' cultivators; both horse drawn and each ton of beets is worth 3.00 if fed as silage. H tractor equipment. . B Extensive feeding tests conducted by four different State Expert- H c. HARVESTING EQUIPMENT. The forthcoming beet har- ment Stations have shown that the cured tops from one ton of beets vest is going to be an important one and it is going to be a real job arc eq"1 m fattening value to 46 pounds of corn plus 150 pounds getting it done. Every available worker must bfe recruited. Mexican f alfalfa hay. With corn at 65.00 per ton and hay at 20.00 per Nationals will be available and the Company is lending every effort ton rt 15 easy for vou to calculate that cured beet tops from each ton Bto secure Spanish American laborers from labor surplus areas. ff beets afe worth 3.00. It should be emphasized again, these are not just pencil figures, they are the results from feeding experiments One of the bright spots in the sugar beet harvest picture Is the conducted at State Experimental Stations. If you are a 15 ton grower Increased use of mechanical harvesters. There will be approximately 7ou ha,ve 45.00 worth of tops per acre if you silo them and feed them. 200 beet harvesters used in the area in which the Company operates Sure they are not worth that much if you just turn livestock loose to for the 1946 harvest. These will be mainly John Deere, Interna- trample and waste them but then grain or alfalfa wouldn t be worth tional, Marbeet and Kiest harvesters. By 1947 it should be possible much if treated in a similar manner, for every farmer who wants to buy harvester equipment, to be inde- mm pendent of outside labor. In California 75 of the beets were har- Jj Do yOU Fall Plow acres ? ' ' vested mechanically in 1945 and it is estimated that at least 90 of the crop will be harvested by machinery in 1946. Every farmer should Few farmers question the value of fall plowing. It Is generally become well acquainted with these machines as they are in operation agreed that fall plowing exposes soil particles to more complete this fall and decide which is best adapted to his soil and farming weathering action thereby improving soil tilth and texture and in- , conditions. Mechanical harvesting is here to stay, and machines are creasing availability of plant food materials. It prepares soils to sold long before they are manufactured. The Company has done absorb all winter and spring moisture and enables the preparation everything possible to make the largest possible number of there har- of an early firm seedbed so that the beet crop can get off to an early vesters available to their growers. , start. Why don't more farmers fall plow? Well, we recognize that lack of labor has been one of the reasons. Yet how many acres of 3 grain, pea, or corn land do you have that could be watered to sprout Fertilizer Requirements . weed seeds and then plowed before beet and potato harvest starts? How many acres of alfalfa do you have that must be broken out a. Pounds of Nitrogen fertilizer........v.. either this fall or early spring? Do you know that good growth of b. Pounds of Phosphate fertilizer 1 alfalfa turned under as a green manure adds as much nitrogen as . you can buy for 18 to 20 dollars per acre, and that in addition you The Company has conducted extensive fertilizer tests during have beneficial effects of the added organic matter? You say B 1 1945 and 1946. In better than 90 percent of the tests there was a you neetj the feedwell, we have just pointed out that if you fully marked response from the fertilizer applied. In most cases the greatest utilize your beet tops, they will be equal in feeding value to IV2 to 2 I returns from the commercial fertilizer were realized when nitrogen tons cf aifaifa hay. Why not substitute tops for hay and plow under and phosphate fertilizer was used in combination of about 2 bags some alfalfa? B of nitrogen fertilizer for one of phosphate fertilizer. We may not H be able to get sufficient nitrogen fertilizer to supply all you might Then there is the beet land that didn't get plowed because we had I want for 1947 but it will help greatly if we know your needs now. to wait two to three weeks for the livestock to pasture the tops. We I Commercial fertilizers are most effective when used in combina- have already seen that pasturing tops is poor economy. In addition B tion with barnyard manure and green manure crops. to getting only a small part of the true value of your tops when you sell them for pasture you lose one to two tons of beets per acre next M I year because you didn't fall plow. Is it economy to trade 6 per acre B f Do you have feeding operations to utilize your hay, for pasturage this fall for 20 to 30 per acre you can get from in- H grain and SUgar beet by-products ? creased yields next year? Based on the amount of nitrogen and B ' phosphorus in the tops and crowns, they are worth more than 6 N a. Number of Beef Cattle fed ..CI- disced and plowed under for fertilizer. Every farmer should think B b. Number of Dairy Cattle Fed twice before he passes up an opportunity to fall plow for the sake of H c Number of Lambs fed. pasturing tops. g Livestock feeding is an integral part of successful farming. You We must plan together now to make sugar beet farming d perma- B may ask yourself the question "To feed or not to feed?" Actually nent part of your agriculture and put your farming operations on a B you should ask the question "To feed or not to farm?" Successful balanced basis. We want to do our part. If we are falling short, help H farming requires manure and manure comes from feeding. An 80 acre us to see where and by co-operative effort and planning we can make Q farm should have an application of around 300 tons of manure each sugar beets more profitable for everyone. H Utah -Idaho Sugar Company t L. D. S. 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