Show BEET SUGAR RANKS AS BIG INDUSTRY IN AGRICULTURE Each American consumes about two thirty-two pounds of sugar in a year and only ten pounds of that ration is produced in t this i- i country according to calculations calculations calculations of officials official's of the department department depart depart- department ment of agriculture in a report on the beet sugar industry of the United States for 1910 11 which has just been issued issued- This point is brought out in emphasizing ing the possibility ty of American farmers keeping this money at home by raising sugar be beats ls ts Commenting on the sugar beet industry in this country the depar department ment of agriculture says says x Beet sugar is 1 ely comparatively recent product of this thi country and can scarcely ba bJ said aid to to hav have e existed twenty years ago abb The production during the twelfth census year 1899 amounted t to o short tons while th the e 1912 product aggregated short hart tons valued value at ct The growth of this industry industry industry indus indus- try and the plans for its inClE increase s indicates that that- beet raising for lot sugar purposes is much desired d by farmers for p profit airl cultural cultural cul cut tural benefit to the tine land land- There are now in opt operation t sixty-six sixty factories in se seventeen SE n nI t I states which used during the thelast th e last season tons of beets produced on on acres acre s and the industry has become on one e of the mainstays and chief supports sup up ports of agriculture under r gation in the semiarid states Yet this industry produces practically practically only one-eighth one of th the home consumption The importance import import- ance ante from entirely foreign ter tel territory territory now approximates 2000 short tons annually annually- A home hom beet sugar production sufficient ci nt to cut off this production would woul d not affect the home cane nuga r industry adversely ly because that tha t I has so nearly reached its limit I that any possible growth it may have from now on will not equal the annual increased co coun country's un rys ry's consumption which has considerably more than doubled now is greater per capita Jan han any other country except England England Eng Eng- land land- With U our present low average aver- aver average age quarter one of Hof quarter one short tons tOllS of beet sugar per acre it would re- re nure tu re rc acres to produce i ithe the S short tons now imported or as tJ ti t acreage acreage har- har veit d the last year was slightly I Ices s than l it would ne need ned d the production of acres acre's under beets to equal the entire home demand a condition to which for more than thai eighty years economists have looked forward n nv nv v vIt's Its It's high time to prepare for fly time Success comes in cans failure failure failure fail fail- ure in cants Let us order a dozen lozen cans Dont Don't wait for the cow to give the e milk milk milk-go go milk herI herI herI her I am for Utah means the individual is for Utah and all her praiseworthy and it is is only by acquiring an enthusiastic spirit and sticking to it that we can make the sentiment sentiment sentiment sen sen- effective If you have no en enemies you will very likely be in a boat with no friends friends to to rock the boat |