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Show BEET FACTORIES All) I'MOl- l'I,OV.MH.T The harvesting of sugar beets in the Kocky mountain region will be tho earliest in years, opening about September 15. Once again the beet-sugar industry indus-try has demonstrated its value as a stabilizing influence in rural communities. commu-nities. As unemployment increases after general farm operations discontinue in the fall, the sugar-beet factories take up the slack by furnishing employment em-ployment to thousands of men Tor a period of from three to four months, thus relieving the unemployment situation sit-uation materially. , The sugar industry lias been completely com-pletely "deflated." Prospects are bright for record-breaking crops per acre. After a stormy year the farmers farm-ers and the factories are entering a period of normal conditions which should prove to Cue advantage of both. As the fact becomes more generally general-ly appreciated that wherever sugar beets are grown, in rotation with other oth-er crops, the yield of succeeding crops is doubled, the sugar-beet industry in-dustry is going to develop on a more substantial basis. |