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Show mik Tagp THE llKIiALB JOURNAL, Logan, Utah, Sunday, November 10 20, 1955 Sugar Beefs Are Basic Cash Crop Carl County's LEWISTON million dollar sugar boot industry uMial this year. as bettor than Only complaint is that acreage to be holding allotments seem down Uie total output. With harvesting of beets having been completed la week, the average yield was alxnit 15 tons per acre above the normal for this area, and even above early season estimates.Sugar content was off a half-pe- r cent, however. D E. Smith, manager of the Low iMon distiiit, A m agam a ted Sugar Companv, repotted that the local factory will process about 50,000 tons of beet-- , of which 00 per cent is grown in This County. The other 40 per ent represents Rugar beets brought in from the Companys Weber County producers. 300 Now Working The plant expects a 50 day run It for urrently Ls employing 252 persons, with an additional 70 having been used for receiving station operations. A maintenance foue of 35 per- Rons is employed at the LewiMon! factory the year aioifciri. All of these sugar company employes are Cache folks Keith E f!ailev Is Iewbbm plant superintendent; Solon Low is. master miih. rh.ef mechanic; Jack rhemiM. and Glen Hunter, cashier LaM ears sug.ir hi t nop in Cache Count v brought a total of $14 51 per ton. and t.nere were ever 50 WO Inns produced lo'dllv. Th adds up to some $H0 000 in favrntnts to fainmrs and ln- beet-slicin- bid k Tim g. f'dctal pavnenls romp;ns p.ivioll to em-plo- v tenches is appi oxirnatrlv $525 2' 0 pi r war. im hiding $200 K0 (In'iii'i ihe pi ru '.in g season 1a-- lr d and $125 2o0 for Ivviston sy ar fartoiv one of the Count al "big industries.' It was in 1005, and has been in operation ever since. Acreage today is far below that ot the 1920's, when farmers planted some 20.-0acres to sugar beets. Today it is but 4000 aires. Rotation Desirable The largest acreage, Mr. Smith pointed out, was not good for the industry locally, nor for the soil. There was not sufficient rotation, and soil "ran out" by being cropped to beets diwing too many sue ccs-sie ye i s. But 'he 4000 acre maik, limited b fcceral allotment, could well tfA. -- . he boosted to 7000 acres, with I - a r-ri' fatmeis still mantaintng desiralin roitdion procedures. Recent years have brought changes in beet field labor practices, and in soil ferfaetorv. Amalgamated Sugar SUGAR BEETS have been a major ra-- h crop ! the Lewiston tility measures. Muc h of the beet in Catbe Valiev for years, and beie is shown ' Company, duiing the present piocessing. harvesting today is done mechfor Soil preparation anically. and Amalgamated Sugar Company! The sugar is sold throughout beets, as for other crops, is ben- of new ehemieal fertilizers, and findings in general has faelones at Paul Idaho, I win the western Vmteda Stales, mar-teefited by tractors and new types of researih has r Idaho, and;we alwavs hate leady reuted in bet- - Falls and Narnp. beet cultuie, of equrpment. Nys-aOiegon. besides I,ewiMon ket," Atr Smnh obsei veil. yields The use of new strains of seed. -- CACHE VALLEY INDUSTRY... CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PROGRESS! ripie-Rent- s s oi.gm- - Personal Income Gets Boost From Government Government was the largest single sout ce of pe sonal income In Utah last yeai, according to a report juM released by Utah Foundation, the ptivale, nonpio-fi- t tax research organization. 'Government imome disbursements Fedei al state, and local' m the form of wages, valaiies and benefits totaled 4282 000 000, or nearly 25 of all Utah personal income dm ms 1054," the report continues This percentage was aearlv 50 '5- higher than the avertwo Only age for the nation other Mates (Virginia and New Mexico! dm hod a lai gei propot lion of their pet sonal Income f m to ei nrnent souices in 1954. The studv mentions that Utah s per capita income 'total personal Income divided bv state population1 declined about $20 last year fiom $1,505 in 1955 to $1 483 in 1954 However, this .slight decline in per capita income was offset bv reduced FVdetal income taxes ii h went into effect last year Thus, the aveiace disposable income remained about the ame both vears Utahs per capita income was below the average for the nation the Western ''t.ites and the Mountain States, the Lt.th Foun-daoireport said Duiins l5t Utah tanked 31 M among the 48 income, in ner capita Mate which was neailv $2"0 below the aveiage fr r the nation Found a'ion an.dvMs point emt Modern, up - to - the - minute industrial and farming methods are bringing bigger and better returns here in Cache Valley. In saluting the progressive people of this area we take pride in the increasing role electricity is playing in bringing more efficiency with less cost. Cache Valley canning, milk processing, and other industrial plants are known for their modern methods and superior products. Modern electrically refrigerated milk tanks, electric heating in farm buildings, and electric water pumps, are but some of the ways electricity is saving time, steps, and dollars, on farms and in industrial plants here and throughout the area we serve. n hat onjv two of the' Moun- tain States and the- eleven West etn State- -' had lower per capita Incomes than 1 tub laM vear Vfahs average income w.s sts below the au,ia"i' of lip ciM Mountain Stab's and b' tween 271 and of 079 les .1 at ate s of thaT ir e avenges ( oa-'- t !m iiu ihe . UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO. |