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Show ''ft "!v7rT yrT- - rr J s S' S 4 L. THE CHRISTMAS XEWS Salt Lake City, Utah Saturday, December IS, e;?, vv '7 ? Page g , s f nJSi 1 M3 srs: JsT0. - , - CwSA ,?Y vy ysre- - l.ll gji , 'C. rvrzm, .a -- - 4 JBgtu n.i.Ur 3L r IMPROVED MECHANICAL LABOR SAVERS PLAN-PLA- Improved beet seed drills for the better planting of segmented seed . . better, seed quality, and greater uniformity of segmentation . . . plus improved mechanical blqckers, toppers and loaders . . . are assured for 1944 operations. Get the facts from your fieldman. NT EARLY Early soil preparation and early planting o sugar heets assure better, bigger crops, with fewer hazards to growers. Ground that has been well pre-- . pared in the fall, and worked and seeded as early in spring as weather conditions will permit, brings best -results. Look to your drills now. normal acreage of sugar beets in 1944 . . . easier arid Inorprofitablerassuming favorable weather conditions and a sound Government sugar beet program for next year. The importance of sugar as a vital energy food, and as an essential factor in the greatest home food preservation, program in the nations history in the season just passed, has placed the beet sugar industry in the select list . with Government scientists Forgone thing, the industry, and equipment manufacturers, is rapidly taking most of the stoop, hand labor out of thinning, blocking and harvesting for those who will take full advan- of r: It will be easier to grow a T)f the War Food Administration. ; . . . beet tops, Equally important as the sugar itself are its beet pulp and molasses. - Acre for acre, based on average yields, the ucts from sugar beets are equal, in total digestible nutrients , the standard ts tage of the new developments as they occur. Great strides have been taken in this direction, even since last spring. by-pro- t measure of livestock feed Values, to alfalfa hay, in addition to the sugar itself . No other major crop grown in America contains so many calories. of food en- - Moreover, the new segmented seed itself is being improved. It will be segmented more uniformly. Its germination rate will be higher. And the tools for planting it are being vastly iipprovedThese important developments are already assured and others are in immediate prospect. This vital branch of agriculture stands on the very threshold of a new era of achievement. essential war crops -- ergy, including sugar and stock feed, as sugar hees. This double-purpos- e, ft double-profcrop is the backbone of farming in scores of western irrigated districts that are fortunate enough to merit a sugar factory. it c AMALGAMATED SUGAR CO. LAYTON SUGAR CO. UTAH-- 1 DAHO SUGAR COT GUNNISON SUGAR, INC. |