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Show Beet Seed Harvest Work Now Underway Harvesting of the sugar licet .seed crop is well under way this week but the work seems to move less rapidly than other seasons, because be-cause of the shortage of man help, so many from this lix-ality being employed in L a s Vegas, Southern California and northern Utah defense areas. However, the work is Ix'ing put over, with n large group of boys not of draft age trying their bands at this strcnous work and providing themselves them-selves with funds for next, year's school tuition. Asked concerning the weight of the beet seed crop this year, the growers seem to feel well satisfied satis-fied with the harvest in most cases, stating however, that the decision rests with the germination germin-ation tesls. Hut the volume mt acre seems to be on a par with other years, it is said. Harvesting and threshing of wheat and barley is also going forward with heavy yields being taken from the land. Willi older-men older-men making up the threshing crews, the work is being pushed and will save any loss of crops it is Inlieved. |