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Show Fred G. Taylor Objects to Cut In Beet Acreage SALT LAKE CITY Hope that the United States department of agricuture "may find a way to give increased sugar beet acreage to Utah and Idaho, despite a nationwide na-tionwide allotment which apparently appar-ently would cut down the actual beet acreage," was expressed Friday Fri-day by Fred G. Taylor, vice president presi-dent and' acting general manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. A nationwide sugar beet acreage acrea-ge of 1,030,000 acres for 1939 was fixed by farm administration officials of-ficials Friday In "Washington, D. C, the Associated Press reported. This compares with 992,000 acres panted this year, which are expected ex-pected to yield more than the domestic sugar quota fixed under the law. "The proposed allotment of 38,-000 38,-000 acres over last spring's plantings, plant-ings, ii strictly enforced, would amourt to a sizable reduction in actual acreage, because production produc-tion always has been less than actual allotments," Mr. Taylor said. ayes in 1914 to a peak of 983,000 acres in 1933. The conferences on division of acreage must be held shortly, because be-cause planting of the 1939 sugar beet crop in California will begin soon. Officials said benefit payments on the 1938 crop would average about $1.90 a ton. Additional acreage to farmers who desired it would not be available avail-able unless other farmers reported they did not care to plant all thej acreage tc which they are entitled,! which might lower their quota for! the following year. "If the local growers in Utah and xuahc were to have their ap-j portionmeiiui cade cn past exper-j ience alone, it would undoubtedly! result in a reduction cf the 1938' plantings," Mr. Taylor said. "If hcwsver, the department, in makir.j iu fo.n.U-a, gives special: weight to the factor of 'ability toj produce,' which is referred to in the announcement, and proper! consideraton is given to our new beet-growing potentialities due to development of fly-resistant seed j we should receive an apportionment apportion-ment amounting to a, substantial Increase over the plantings of 1938," he said. "It is to be hoped," Mr. Taylor continued, "that with this new ability to grow sugar beets and an increased disposition on the part of the farmers to grow them, and with some sugar plants idle and others onlv half sunnlied with a tonnage that could be conveniently conven-iently handled, we may not be restricted to our present limited acreage, but that we may be permitted per-mitted to grow for the plants now ' in operation in Utah and Idaho a full crop of beets. "With the disappointing prices that are being realized for most other farm crops, there has probably pro-bably been no time in recent years when the value of the beet crop has been more apparent toi the farmers of our western states."! The AAA said the 1,030,000 1 acres would be divided among sugar su-gar beet areas and the individual growers after conferences with growers and processors. Beet growers will be paid benefits on the 1938 crop on the basis of all acres planted, without with-out regard to observance of individual in-dividual "proportionate shares," the announcement said. Surplus sugar expected from this year's crop "should provide a reserve re-serve or appropriate inventory of the beet sugar, taking into account ac-count past experience of the sugar beet industry with respect to meet-.ng meet-.ng the quotas established unde sugar legislation," it continued. Harvested acreage of sugar beets has ranged from 483,000 |