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Show Guards jil Sugar Company iviaKGs uas h Awards In Beet Growing Contest Announcement of the awards of the cash prizes offered by the Gunnison Sugar company, for acreage, tons produced per acre and the cash net return, reveals some interesting figures and unqualifidely demonstrates that suar beet growing in the district is the one profitable, cash crop. Tire tonnage of sugar beets sliced and made into sugar for the season of 1929, was the largest, excepting 1925, since operations were started ten years ago by" the Gunnison Sugar company. The sugar content, during the season just closing, was slightly below normal, but the tonnage per acre was very heavy, and the farmers who took advantage of the excellent sea.-son sea.-son and planted large acreages of beets this year, made a decided success of their farming operations. The following is the result of a tonnage contest made possible through the cooperation of the Gunnison Sugar company and the Agricultural department depart-ment of the Utah Agricultural college. The various classes of competition were divided according to acreages and all fields were carefully measured ..nder the direction of S. R. Boswell of Richfield, county agent for Sevier county: Class No. 1 Over Five Acres and Less Than Ten Acres. Cash Return Acreage Tons Per Acre Per Acre 1st Prize Niels Anderson, Sigurd 8.39 20.55 $15412 2nd Prize Alodph Nielsen, Richfield. . 9.27 20.24 151.90 3rd Prize C.W. & V.L.Cowley, Venice. 9.38 18.17 133.28 Class No. 2 OTer Ten Acres and Less Than Fifteen Acres. Cash Return Acreage Tens Per Acre Per Acre 1st Pi-iz: George Brugger, Venice 11.39 21 87 $164.03 ind Prize Henry Peterson, Richfield. . 12.20 21.28 159.60 3rd Prize Lewis Gardner, Venice 10.20 20.92 153.90 Class No. 3 Over Fifteen Acres and Less Than Twenty Acres. Cash Return Acreage Tens Per Acre Per Acre 1st Prlzo Arthur Ence, Richfield 19 43 20.63 $154.73 2nd Prize E. W. Crane, Salina 16.82 19.21 14-1.05 3rd Prize T. J. Nielsne, R'chfic-ld . . . . 16.42 18.34 137.55 Class No. 4 Over Twenty Acres. L,asn Kcuirn Acreage Tons Per Acre Per Acre 1st Przo Wm. F. Brron, Sigurd 22.05 21 38 $160.35 2nd Fr'zs L. Christensen, R'chfield. . 21.34 19 02 142 6" 3rd Prize Reg. Peterson, Richfield.. 22.31 18.43 138.22 Cash prizes for the winners in the contest, amounting to ?289.00, and donated by the Gunnison Sugar company, were d'vided as follows: "CLASS NO. 1 I CLASS NO. 3 First Pr'ze $15.00 First Prize $40.00 Second Prize 10.0!) ! Second Prize 25.00 Third Prize 5.00 ' Third Prize 15 00 CLASS NO. 2 ! CLASS NO. 4 F'r3t Prize $25.00 First Prize SG0.C0 Second P 'ze 15 00 j Second Prize 40.00 Third Prize 10.00 Third Prize 20.00 These gentlemen agree that they obtained the high yields per acre by careful fertilization, early end thorough preparation and systematic irrigi ticn. These fields were carefully thinned, well cultivated end kept free from weeds during the entire growing season. It is true that the average tonnages ton-nages per E-cre for the entire valley can be materially increased through these methods. The cash return per acre from other crops grown in our valley are not at all comparable and this offers mere proof that the acrco;;-" cf sugar beet should be very much incre?.sed in all parts of the district for the New Year 1930. This procedure will help put all farms on a paying pay-ing brsis ar.d increase the cash return from all lines of business very sub- stantially. |
