Iron County Record | 1927-04-22 | Page 10 | Record Acreage Given to Beets

I 1 Record Acreage Given to Beets Bet I 1 Denver Denver Announcement Announcement ot of a record record- breaking contract of acres o of sugar beet Inn land 1 signed for tor Us its thirteen Colorado factories W was 8 made by th the e Croat Creat Western Sugar company Forty per lIer cint cent of ot this acreage has been seeded and In view of recent snow and rains prospects for the greatest greated I sugar sugar producing ro year In tn the states state's his hl- tory are decidedly good The company's sugar beet acreage for tor 1928 1926 In Colorado Cole Cola rado redo was a a high record to that date date and and because of a 8 S a ton i rate rute the farmers produced a greater I acreage than was contracted by several soy sev eral fral thousand acres With tho the same samo price prevailing this year it I is ex ox ted that Colorado farmers will exceed ex ex- their contracted acreage by the tho same ammo proportions which will wUl bring tho total hart ban harvested osted ested crop to around acres