Show 8 Phone none 4 o a A To Wasatch o SUGAR INDUSTRY f J AHlff w l Low Prices of Past Year I Prove Harmful to Beet Growers F f X I By BERT ROBINSON I It generally Is-generally Is generally recognized by well wel Informed people that the beet sugar Industry ind which is now part of the agricultural curriculum of eighteen states states' cannot endure under the thc low lo prices r ces existing throughout the past year ear This condition has contributed contributed contrib contrib- to an active movement upon the part of the farmers' farmers organizations organizatIons organizations of these states to demand of ol cops ress congress a tariff sufficiently highto high hIgl highto to Insure a continuation of beet culI culture cul cul- I t ture tufe te which Is so so vitally necessary in their farming program These farmers rightly contend that it Is IS' not possible for them to compete against the products of the low priced labor of tropical al foreign t 1 countries co and and are fully justified In d demanding ma prote protection tIon to an extent tl that at will at least equalize equalize- their costs r ih the cost of pf the fo foreign product a ii n v v being allowed to absorb in a large lage measure the domestic marl market et l However these very obstacles oc- oc f by Jow sugar prices are ini in i certain respects the compulsory f a a ancy ncy to better and more efficient n n Certainly the only way ay in which the Industry can sur- sur r Jve through such a critical period entirely without profit is isby isby l b by the application of the most rigid methods of economy econom and the ex extraction ex- ex extraction traction of every ounce of- of sugar p sible from th the beets n nd the thet t t of all residue and by- by 1 For or some years past one large 19 peal local 1 company has devoted itself n a naively to the principle of economy aid the rearrangement of its property property property prop prop- erty In such manner as to insure better b operating results Plants e been removed to localities here a more adequate supply of b beets ets is b being obtained Intensive ve research for or cheaper arid and more efi ef- ef fi ent methods of sugar extraction I j I ha has been engaged in harming Fanning methods tending to Increase sugar content within the beets beets' have been bee J expounded Labor saving saYing devices both 01 the farm and in hi the factory have have- been introduced Auxiliary machinery facilitating the use o of products by-products have havo been installed I Managerial I control has been bee strengthened and placed In closer close contact with farmers and labor an another and other measures tending to obtaIn the utmost out of the raw materIal and the reduction of costs h have ve been adopted While it Is recognized that tha much In this direction remains ye yet yetto to be accomplished it is conceded concede that notable progress has been beep made and It is expected that this constructive con con- policy will be continued There are ale numerous Influences ef effecting effecting et- et f cUng t U e sugar industry which are beyond the control of management management management manage manage- ment such as prices weather condItions conditions con con- insect infestation and others others others oth oth- ers but insofar as it is within reasonable reasonable reasonable rea rea- power to reflect progress modern management Is achieving results The research bureaus of the United S States ates department of agriculture agriculture agri agri- I agri-I culture are arc pursuing constant search for tor eradication of the white fl fly evil and It is js believed that this vexatious vexatious problem m will ultimately be solved Through the sugar industry which Is primarily a branch of agriculture ag agrIculture agriculture ag- ag farming met methods are re receIving receiving receiving re- re more Intensive study anc and care than ever before Every beet farmer know lwow that the richer rIcher- the sugar content of his bets the higher the price that will be paid hIm under the divisional principle of the present participating con con- I tract This has induced a closer cooperative spirit between the farmers and manufacturers The stockholder naturally is die dis- heartened to see the prIce of his his' sugar shares which have paid him no returns for for years decline to tei about one of the original value and hei he realizes that to reinstate reinstate reinstate rein rein- state their value and place the ing in industry in position al-position where dividends dividend are justified higher prices for sugar are axe n necessary and this can come ome only by an Increase n n rease In in tariff tariff Sugar is selling today at the lowest figure in years arid and Is so low that Jt it t Is doubtful if any but the most capably managed manage 1 companies can make male any progress progress until its price increases because labor material beets and everything entering Into its ts cost coat have nearly doubled in value alue |