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Show Local Beet Seed Plant I Finishes Seed Kecleaning Campaign 5 The sugar beet seed recleaning J program which started August 27, . at the local plant of Utah Idaho ; Sugar Company, has continued ! each day since. Monday Dec. 17th completed the work. ; The beet seed crop for the year 1945 has been a good average . crop both in production and j germination, although some seed j was lost caused by heavy rain j storms and delays in getting the threshing of the seed done at the j 1 time the seed was ready to be threshed. This work furnished ; j employment throughout the year ; I and uses extra help especially , during seed recleaning and seg- 1 menteing campaigns. Tuesday morning of this week, the crew of men commenced1 overhauling over-hauling and repair work at the mill, getting the plant in good working condition for the segmenting seg-menting beet seed campaign, which is anticipated will commence com-mence shortly after January 8th, and will continue into the month of April. The local sugar beet seed industry in-dustry gives employment to both men and women at the beet seed plant and creates a local payroll of approximately 25 to 30,000.00 per year, and in addition, considerable con-siderable money is expended -for materials and taxes. Payments for seed to growers this year is approximately $123,000.00. |