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Show Utah Ranks Third In Beet Planting American farmers have planted 015,000 acres of sugar beets this year: as compared with 733,000 acres in 1023 and COG, 000 acres in 1922, re-poils re-poils Facts About Sugar. This i3 a gain of nearly 25 per cent over the urea devoted to the crop last year, aid favorable growing conditions - :?.c)uld icsult in the production of over 2,000,000,000 pounds of sugar. Colorado is the leading state in the extent of its sugar beet plantings, plant-ings, having 237,301 acres. Next comes Michigan with 155,170 acres, Utah 90,308 acres, California 92,302 acres, Nebraska GO, 372 acres, Idaho 58.522 acres, Ohio 55,513 acres, Wisconsin Wis-consin 34,200 acres, Wyoming 29,300 acres arid Iowa 25,200 acres. The remaining 08,000 acres is scattered among a number of states, including Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, Mntana, Nevada and New Mexico. The crop has suffered from dry weather in southern California, Utah . , and Idaho and the tonnage in these states probably will not be mucih. higher than last year in spite of the increased acreage. In the Rocky Mountain section and in the centra! states the condition of tJhe crop is reported fully up to the average of previous years and in some localities better than average. In Michigan field conditions are exceptionally good. While the gross value of the crop probably will be larger than in any one of the past three years farmers are not likely to obtain as large a revenue re-venue per "acre from sugar beets as they did in 1923. On .account of the prospective increase in the crop, combined com-bined with a heavy production of cane sugar in Hawaii, Porto Rico and Cuba, prices are at present nearly three cents a pund lower than a year ago. Refined sugar is quoted wholesale whole-sale in New York at 6.40 cents a pound as compared with 9.25 cents in July 1923. |