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Show j but that the factory can handle all they want to raise, and that he would I be pleased to see the acreage in this district materially increased. A meeting will be held in Richfield this (Friday) evening, when all the j Farm Bureau Locals of the county I will meet and organize the Sevier County unit of the State Sugar Beet Marketing Association. It is expected expect-ed that this meeting will be largely attended as the farmers of the county coun-ty are deeply interested in this new plan and are prepared to boost it in every way. Beet acreage will then be solicited by the Farm Bureau locals loc-als and the results tabulated in the head office at Salt Lake City, so that the Association will know just what is heing done and the whole matter of marketing beets will le carried out in an efficient and business like way. Salina Sun. Sevier Growers Plan Big Acreage The coming season promises to be a notable one in the history of agriculture agri-culture in Sevier County. Farmers all over the country are awakening to the fact that the sugar beet industry-is industry-is the most important one we have and steps are being taken whereby from 25 to 30 per cent greater acreage acre-age is practically assured in the Sevier Se-vier valley. Representatives from each local of the Farm Bureau all over Utah met in Salt Lake on December De-cember 29th and organized a state Sugar Beet Marketing Association. Through this organization, sugar beets will be marketed in quantity, that is, the factory can buy their beets from the head office and contract con-tract for as much as they wish, 'thus cutting down their expense and assuring as-suring a higher price to the grower. Local organizations are being formed, form-ed, which wil boost the raising of beets in each community. They will interest the growers and get acreage signed up instead of leaving that to be done by the promoters of the factories. fac-tories. It is expected that by this method at least 25 or 30 per cent more beets will be raised right here around Salina. Representatives from Sevier County Coun-ty at this state meeting were T. H. Atkin of Salina, Arthur Christensen of Redmond, Edwin Sorensen of Aurora, Au-rora, and Dan Petersen of Richfield. The next day following the organization organi-zation meeting, these men waited on W. Harvey Ross, president of the Gunnison Valley Sugar Company, and conferred with him in regard to the new plan of marketing beets. Mr. Ross was highly pleased with the scheme and said that" it is the only satisfactory system and will work out to the advantage of both farmer and factory. Mr. Ross also said in regard to local conditions that he hoped the farmers of Sevier County could come to a realization of the value to them of the sugar factory and that without their united and continued support it would be impossible im-possible for the factory to operate. He also spoke a good word for the farmers of the Sevier valley, saying that they could be depended upon for a good acreage of beets each year, |