Show BEET GROWERS PROTEST QUOTA Rocky Mountain Area Is Penalized Leader Declares WASHINGTON May 12 A P-A protest against the allocation of beet sugar productIon quotas under the Jones Jones-Costigan act on any basis ex cx past performance was made to the agrIculture department today by Charles M. M of the National Beet Growers Growers' association We have been advised that some some interests are advocating the alloca alloca- tion of the beet sugar quota among growers producers and processors upon and hypothetical circumStances circumstances cir cir- and not on actual past performances wrote A. A J. J S. S Weaver chief of t the c A A A sugar sect section on He inte or not it penalizes those areas which produce pro pro- d duce cri 85 per cent ot of American beet sugar the Rocky mountain west vest and confers confers' its itson on the remaining 15 per C cent nt Michigan Michi- Michi gan Indiana Oho Ohio and Wisconsin Kearney said the ton quota voted by to domestic beet sugar will permit of bags ot of pounds each He said since the th production of beet sugar last year was bags the quota reduction 1 in output out out- put during the first quota year of bags or 11 1171 per ent |