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Show UTAH SUGAR BEET CROP. About 30,000 Acres Under Cultivation Yield 300,000 Tons. According to Lou J. Haddock, secretary sec-retary of the M. & M., who has had occasion to prepare some statistics on the subject, there are now 30,000 acres 2 of sugar beets under cultivation in the state. The annual yield is 300,000 tons of fo-ccts, or 600,000,000 pounds. From the beets 30,000 tons or 60,-000,000 60,-000,000 pounds of sugar arc obtained. The beet growers, he says, receive $1,500,000 for their product. It would take a train 100 miles long to transport the beets, he says, -and a train 12 miles long to, transport the refined sugar. |