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Show PACE FOUB THURSDAY. THE LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH Published by The Lehi Free Press Every Thursday Phone 8 W, Eesid. 1GO-Lehi George P. Price, Manager Entered at the postoffice at Lehi. Utah, as second class matter. MORE SUGAR BEETS j land a delayed spring which will Pvt. Robert Calt , 14 to U. their S. foci-i farmers complete permit III Thn preparation and get in the crop Islands and writes thl. tPt, with a minimum amount of haz-- ; a number of the u oys ard. 1915 should be an ideal year," ers who nation are two factors accounting for this year's increased interest in the crop. Other factors are the TO BE GROWN IN 1045 .governments guaiar.tee of the highest prices in the history of the for beets; the realization industry "It begins to look almost like that our farmers must maintain the good old days for sugar beets a high production history of they in Utah County." are to protect future acreage This statemen was made yesterquotas; and the need for sugar, day by W. J. O Bryant, district beets in a sound farm rotation pro- manager of Sugar Comgram. The importance of beet bypany after tabulating results of the products to maintain present high p 195 sign-uto Monday of this week. dairy production in the country was On the basis of present contract also named. acres. ing, iarmers wno grew beets in Mr. OBryant reasoned that asWith a heavy moisture content sign up to Monday of this w eek surances the Extension in the ground and plenty of irriService by that they will plant 73.4 per cent, the and Food Administration War water assured for the growgation more acres of beets this year than of an season labor and adequate supply by recent rains and ing last. One hundred forty-onfarmthe greater need for sugar in the snow throughout the water shed J TliE LEHI FREE PRESS grew no beets last jear have contracted for 665 acres to date in the county this year; while 28-farmers who grew beets in nave contracted for 19So acres, which is an increase of 30 per cent over last year s figure. If this trend continues, the number of farmers who grow susrar beets in will be 50 per cent greater than the number who grew them last year and the average size beet contract will increase from five acres to six and a quarter 19-1- Mr. OBrvant concluded. Mr. anrl frt. Wells, Nevada. Joseph Calton hr,., oi xasi week. LOCAL ITEMS 19-1- Adveming Rates Furnished Upon Request One year Subscription Jl.00 Utah-Idah- o 19-1- . MtMBlt HUH SIATE tu SSAssocunovi j e - LOCAL ITEMS G. VV. Leany was a business Visitor to Salt Lake City. Tuesday. ' j 5 Mrs. Sarah E. Gaisford was a Thursday dinner guest of Mr. and Sunday dinner Mrs. W. R. Wood of Salt Lake City. Mrs. Fred Yates gUests a " Fred Yates dcri and TUrc ric al. UViin Bishop and Mrs. Fenon Draper of of ter, Norma, of Ameri- Moroni, were week end guests Dean has spent the pasts? "I Peck. R. I. Mr. and Mrs. They the attend to Ul" came golden wedding Pacific, b .... i of Mr and Mrs. Elisha Peck. .ii .. i ates. i j isiiSw - " is Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Thurman ol Garfield, spent Friday with Mrs wary Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Jones of Oak ley, visited with Mrs. Mary Jones, - ., ' bunday. ' ' ' . ' , - - Mrs. Melvin Smuin of Evanston, Wyoming, was a guest of Mrs Kate Smuin Thursday and Friday. Dorald Allred was a at the LaVerde Wednesday. dinner guest Kirkham home Sgt and Mrs. Don Pierson of Florida, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs I. R. Peck and Mr and Mrs. Mahlon Feck. and Mrs. Eldrpd Tavinr f and Mrs. Kate Smuin were! Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mr. Provo, Mrs. Boyd Smuin. Beekeepers of the Lehi Stake met Mrs. L. B. Adamson, Monday evening to dscuss details of the annual stake Beellive Buzz. Light refreshments were served. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Smuin and daughter, Paulette. visited with Mr. and Mrs. Raeldon Goates anH family of Ogden, and paid their respects to the new Goates baby. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Terry and daughter. Linda. Mr. and Mrs, Dolph Christensen of Salt Lake, were among the people attending the Peck golden wedding Friday evening. The MMernette Club met at the home of Mrs. June Holbrook Wednesday evening of last week. Mrs Madge Evans was a guest of the club. Sewing and a light luncheon were enjoyed by the ladies. Mrs. J. W. Greenwell returned to her home in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.' Wednesday, after a visit with Mr. and Mrs, Randall Schow, and with her daughter and SSgt and Mrs, Russell son-in-la- Schow. WHO WILL GET Mrs. Virgil Meredith enertalned the Sewing Club at her home Friday evening. A dainty luncheon was served. Those present were JMaps are being Mrs. Dorothy Southwick, Mrs. Zlna Wllles, Mrs. Wllma Sorenson. Mrs. Virginia Gurney, Mrs. Lucille Ingram, Mrs. Geneva Peterson, Mrs. Wanda Bushman and Allen. Mrs. entertained at a birthday party at her home Friday evening honoring the birthday anniversary of her husband. Guests were Mr. and Mra, Jesse Thomas, Miss Leona Thomas and Mack McDonald, Gaarield, Mrs. Ben Mitchell of Mountain Home, Mrs. Ivan Mrs. Colledge, Eliza Mrs. Colledge, Harry Manning, Mrs. John Job and son, Ray, Mrs, Earl Thomas and davgh-ter- , Earline, Mrs. Nina Colledge, Gilbert Mitchell, Mrs. Annie Fox, George Thomas of Lehi, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Carlson, Mr. and Mrs. Vem Young. Mr. and Mrs. Benson ng and Mrs and the Morris Thomas family. Refresh ments and dancing were enjoyed. have scarcely produced half a Three to 4 feet high. r w crop. every beet grower, every stockman, every citizen who values the beet sugar industry and wants to preserve it for its multiple benefits should ponder now. Take land values alone. Sugar beets are a factor in stabprime ilizing the prices of farm lands. Any serious-curtailmen- Our valley needs the sugar beet industry. Our famers need the cash crop and the sound rotation program which can be built around it Our livestock men need the The nation needs the srgar- -, plant more beets by-produ- in 1945. "Production history has been an important factor in the domestic production quotas among growers under the Sugar Act of 1937. When that part of the legislation becomes fully effective again r uu,un nistory will likely be as important as before the war." What question ..UTAH HANSEN LEHI UTAH 2 -- t of the industry would be followed by a corresponding deflation of farm land values. Other losses are more obvious. vil1 happen to postwar beet acreaqe quotas for this district? That's a ' Including BLUE SPRUCE It is now time to plant. 134-- ar lotments. FINES PHONE pre-w- After the war these trends will likely have an important bearing on future acreage al- FOR SALE J. L in 1945. Inter- For example, sugar beets. Before our very eyes beet production areas are shifting. Every veteran beet grower knows that he can't grow an unlimited sugar beet acreage in normal times. Government quotas divide the American sugar market among all producing areas. Normally, beet growers supply only 23 per cent of our needs. Last year, we furnished only 15 per cent. Some beet districts have done better than others; for example, the Nyssa-Namp- a district, with its pace-settifor the naincrease acreage tion; Yakima Valley, in Washington, and portions of Montana and Minnesota. Meantime, Southern Idaho and Central Utah districts Mrs. Morris Thomas or Pleasant Grove, Mr. Bill Joosten of Draptr re-dra- national boundary lines are being relocated. War is also industries . . . steel, aircraft, munitions. Even agriculture will feel the permanent effects of the war. Elva BEET QUOTAS? POST-WA-R IDAHO SUGAB pro-rati- ng E. Dodd, Chief Agricultural Adjustment Agen cv N- - C001PW B, |
