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Show BEET PLAIITi;;3 URGED IIIGOUIITY PROVO-Cbarging a loss of $810,-000 $810,-000 to the farmers of Utah county and 700,000 to the county la the form of wages, fuel and supplies, for failure to plant sugar beets and operate the factory at Spanish Fork last year, Willard T. Cannon, vie president and general manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, recommended that farmers prepare for "a substantial acreage this year-in year-in letters to the growers. Mr. Cannon based his conclusion en the limited acreage planted last year as compared to 1033. - "If the earns acreage bad been planted in 19M as in 131 the average aver-age value of the crop to ths growers, based en ths pries of sugar to data, would have been $72 aa acre, or a total of (030,000, as compared with the value of ths actual crop in l3t of 1130,000." |