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Show Plant to Operate On Short Acreage The Gunnison Sugar company's plant at Centerfield will not be idle this fall, notwithstanding the fact that the campaign will be a short one. The company, according to ad vices fiom the main offices, and wanting want-ing to reciprocate for the splendid co-operation of the citizens and farmers farm-ers committee in enthusing growers to increase the acreage, has decided to operate the plant and plans are now being made to carry out the factory improvements as previously arranged, arrang-ed, but which had been suspended pending the decision of the growers to back up the factory. While the acreag" thus far obtained, obtain-ed, totaling less thin 4.000 acres, as compared, with 4,500 last season, will give the factory only a short run, the officers of the company are desirous of making another trial in order to convince the growers of the importance import-ance of maintaining the factory as the valley's greatest and only real asset . that distributes thousands of dollars as a payroll, in addition to distributing dis-tributing a half million dollars or more among the g'owers in the district dis-trict in cash for their crops of beets. It has been announced among the farmers, wno are firmly back of the factory and who are fighting desperately desper-ately to maintain the factory, that the coming season will see a big program pro-gram of rotation, preparation and cultivation, not only for the present year, but for the years to follow, should the conservative farmers decide de-cide to grow beets and keep the wheels of the factory going. The management manage-ment of the factory, as does the grtrw-er, grtrw-er, realize that it will be impossible to keep the mill running with the present beet production and not sustain big losses. If the plans could be inaugurated inau-gurated here as in other beet sections, sec-tions, that of planting large acreages, then both grower and manufacturer would have a chance of putting over a successful campaign with the result that all would prosper. While there is considerable propaganda propa-ganda regarding the water conditions, and while there is some shortage, the situation is not acute. It was splendidly splen-didly demonstrated last season, when the same conditions confronted the grower. The cry went up early in the season that the crop would be a failure, fail-ure, but generally speaking the district dis-trict covered by the Gunnison Sugar company, produced the record crop. This was accomplished by diligent cultivation, cul-tivation, aided by several good rain storms. With normal rainfalls and with the same program carried out as last summer, t'here need be no fear of the outcome and last season's crop equalled, if not excelled. |