| Show UTAH HAS RECORD FOR SUGAR SHAR BEETS yield tony tons to the aue acie As against 05 95 tons average ill hi the ilic united states teen acres of utah beet beat land cultivated by a utah concern furnished tho record yield in the united states f foi oi th N pi in 19 1909 0 9 according tice to final suar su ar statistics for that year just completed by the bugeau of con sub of commerce the utah produced an average yield of tons against in an avei age production pio pi hij tile the united states of 95 tons beio establish mants in the united states engaged in the manufacture and refining of and ay i up in 1909 of these 68 wele lil engaged in the tuie title of suar su ar aiom beets in the manufacture of sugar or from cane and 19 in the refining of cane sugar the total number of engaged in these three indus tiles was of whom 34 9 per cent were employed in the beet sugar factories per cent in the cane mills milli and 4 43 3 per cent in the ref refineries the quantity of beet sugar deported ported le te by the factories in 1909 1900 was tons valued at and that of cane tons valued at the quan city of refined sugar tinned out by tho the refineries which would include the product made in ado from foreign raw rann sugar as well as aiom domestic cane suar 1 1 waa nias not reported according Acco iding to the census of agriculture the farm production of sugar and syl syrup UP in t 1909 amounted to pounds of cane sugar pounds of maple gallons of cane syrup gallons of sorghum and gallons of maple eyoup tho the glucose factories produced in 1909 pounds of glucose eoe valued at and pounds of grale valued at llio beet industry Ind includes all lits making sugar bioni sugar beets the aik oik done includes not only the extraction of the magai bioni the beets but the efflin of tho the greater port part of the in 1909 acre cre fifty eight establishments NN ith pio ducts valued at during the decade ending with igo 1909 9 the value of products pio pi ducts inci eased 1 pel pei cent the in cicack dining the five ceals aiom 1899 to 1904 being 1 per cent as complied with poi cent for the last half of tho the decade the absolute increase horenci howe how eNci ei was larger luring during the later period than during the earlier the value of products is made up almost onti iely of the alue balue of suai tho molasses beet pulp and other byproducts by products being of relatively lat ively little importance the quantity of beets used increased during the decade from tons to tons or per cent and the quantity of sugar manufactured from tons to tons or 8 per cent tile the total dally daily slicing capacity of the factories in 1909 was tons as complied with tons in 1904 and 19 tons in 1899 the Inci increase ease durin durans the decade bean being per cent based on tile the dally daily slicing capacity 0 of their mills as reported for 1909 the three leading states in the beet sugar industry are colorado Alic michigan higan and california in the order named these states stales reported a combined alic ing capacity equal to per cent odthe total for tile the united states which is about the same as their of the total number of factories the average number of persons engaged in the beet sugar Indus industry tty durin 1909 was of whom or pei 1101 cent were wage earners ear neis dining the campaign as the active period in the sugar industry is termed nearly all the factories were operated continuously the wage earn eis el 8 working in shifts of from eleven and one halt half hours to twelve hours each seven days in the week |
