Show BEET GROWERS WILL NOT FIGHT FOR 10 FOR 1918 BEETS at a meeting held iu in tremonton Tre monton montan last friday and which was called by the intermountain sugar beet GroN growers fers association for the p purpose ot of inaudi rating a campaign which secure for tze the tanners farmers 10 10 per ton for ther their beets in 1918 the whole propaganda was unmasked and the farmers wha attended practically left the meeting in ili a body mr C G patterson who lias 1103 recel recoiled considerable publicity and notoriety through a pamphlet wech lie has circulated in which he purports to set forth some glaring facts relative tt t the sugar industry in lie he state stale of utah appeared before t ne he meeting in the guise of a mea mesie lenger direct fic food administrator liebert ile bert hoover with authority to ask the tanners farmers to stand as a unit tor for the 10 per ton price for beets A previous tion ot of this announce I 1 culm had seen been made by a of farmers farmer and so a mr patterson aas as asked if le be afis not waihing woT ling tor for a selfish motive other than a patriotic one and upon being pressed admitted that his orsan organ izai tion would ask a bonus of 20 aerts per ton on beets raised bv all thi the farmers far ners in lieu of its activity in the advanced price for the fa ners computed in dollars and cents the discovered that the atal total would bould arbach the staggering of a 00 on the 1918 crop this organization would receive and when that sn announcement no was made all of the 90 farmers present et at the meeting arose and I 1 left eft the bal tia 1 l the farmers of the bear river R ve valley by their action repudiated the proposition 0 the sur su gar beet growers crowers aam afta add mill in i birli all l their efforts to producing beets beete at the price of 9 per top wl wide ici wt w t agreed upon at the farmers up at logan loan last week when representatives of at the sugar companies comra mei niia and farmers er inet in conference tor for that purpose |