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Show Bergeson Urges Bigger Beet Crop President Ephraim Bergeson of the Utah State Farm Bureau, in an interview inter-view at Salt Lake las;t week, makes a strong appeal to the beet growers of the state to get back of the big sugar industries throughout Utah. He insists that the beet industry is the most important in the state and upon it depends the prsoperity of most of the farmers and agriculturists. Fur-; ther he says: j "Conditions in agricultural circles are worse at the present time than they have been in thirty years," Mr. Bergeson said. "This cannot be charg-1 " ed to the farmers nor the corpora-; tions, but is largely due to the condition condi-tion of international affairs and national na-tional economic conditions. However, it is no time for farmers to complain, but rather a time to increase production, produc-tion, and, in this state, increase the BUgar beet production. "Farmers generally have a tendency tenden-cy to become gloomy in these days when their obligations in many cases far exceed their resources, and in attitude they overlook some of the v- , points of vital concern to them, particularly par-ticularly with the sugar beet industry. indus-try. I have devoted much time lately, and will continue to do so in the future, fu-ture, in trying to explain to downcast farmers that they must plant more sugar beets nstead of holding out on account of grievances or petty misunderstandings. mis-understandings. "Agricultural agencies should realize rea-lize that the sugar companies must have a large acerage in order to make it worth while to operate. The sugar interests spend large sums of money in the operation of large factories, overhauling and all incidental expen-l scs. It costs as much to overhaul fac-j tory machinery to manufacture 60,000 bags of suffar as it would to put out twice that amount. These are things that must be considered by the farmers, far-mers, and it is obvious that both the farmers and the sugar companies will lose if the farmers do not plant many acres of beets." Mr. Bergeson said that the farmers ' are satisfied with the farm bureau contract, and he believes that with such a contract and a large acreage this year the beet growers will have a successful season and the sugar industry in-dustry will get back on a firmer basis. |