Show S ar gar Regains c Normal Stride After Drouth 5 Y Production Expected ted to r 4 T Total tal Bags in Utah for 1935 11 I-i I i. i Following r the dry year of 1931 during during ri i which 1 production of sugar from Utah grown sugar beets beets' fell tell J. J fat far ar below normal output Utah's a sugar industry neared its average in In 1935 With the years year's production pro still not completely totaled it t is expected that approximately bags of beet sugar will wUl be shown This compares with the 1834 1934 1 3 production of bags an bags an Increase of nearly per cent centS S Second cond only only to alfalfa hay In n nl value l D to Ut Utah's hs agricultural at l Industry Indus Indus- s- s try try- sugar beet growers realize an unusually high return per acre worked The beet acreage is for tor Ui the state from tom a total pr productive acreage of Compares with 1933 The last year compares favorably to to t j the beet and sugar production during 1933 for tor which the following ol owing figures res will give a concrete idea of i the value to the state of this industry in- in dually Payments to farmers for tor b beets ets R Rail u transportation for beets coal coke lime limo limerock rock bags and finished sugar products Coal consumption in tons Cost of growing beets including in- in eluding labor irrigation The labor used by the plants of the state in manufacturing sugar from the tho beets as shown in the 1933 statistics totaled 27 men who were Wert employed for for fora a period of ot 75 days day Of these theses arc kept en company payrolls payrolls' the year around At the Ithe beet dumps men men were employed for a period of 40 days receiving the tho beets from farmers and iid 23 additional men were engaged engaged engaged en en- for an aver average ge of 15 5 days moving r the beets stored in piles Stress Streu Pro By-Pro ProductS By-ProductS ducts During the last few tew years the industry industry in In- has has' turned Increasing att attention attention at at- t nUon to production and marketIng market market- marketing market market-I ing of by The use of wet beet pulp for tor stock feeding has been g general throughout the industry's 40 O y years ars of activity in the state More Mor I recently however the manufacture manufacture ture turc of dry pulp has occupied attention attention attention at at- of the industry This mat material material ma ma- t rJ l provides a decidedly superior type t pc of stock stock feed Beginning In 1933 development of of p pellets for range cattle and sheep feeding was begun with the thc cooperation coope cooperation co- co ope operation of ot the department of ani ani- mal mat husbandry at the Utah State Agricultural college A s standard nd d ration was was' developed and the and the plant of the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company at West Vest Jordan has since that time used all available a pulp in manufacture manufacture ture of this product In 1934 all pellets produced found foun a ready market not only in hi Utah UtaJi jut but throughout the entire stock rals ing belt mou mountain states Used as ration for range feed the pellets arc are proving a aval val valuable able aid ald toward solving a teed Ing problem that has previously been acute a te In the feeding of one ne years year's ears supply of sugar lugar beet products by-products which in addition to the pellets includes approXimately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately tons of wet vet pulp and tons of of molasses it Is estimated that men arc are em- em for a a period of five months This does docs not Include the extra labor In the dairy Industry which consumes about 40 0 per cent ent of the pulp Not many years ago housewives will recall that from season season to to season there was a wide fluctuation in the price of of sugar Reacting often to the tho disadvantage of farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers who depend on the wholesale value of sugar for the rate of payment payment payment pay pay- ment this fluctuation als also was wail was a source of concern concern to the industry as asa as asa a whole Remedying this situation the industry has now perfected a marketing arrangement through gh which stability of price is main maln tamed and by bp which each producing company is is' certain of its share o othe or of orthe the available market W While uc distribution ut q o of U Utah h s augar gar garIs Is general throughout the United States State the income to the state from its prod production n in In ev every ry phase r represents represents pre presents a wealth accumulation that tha annually places the state In an an enviable position in t this ls regard |