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Show CALIFORNIA SUGAR BEFT GROWERSJELL STORY Has Transformed Land Worth Little Into Valuable Property. Washington, luu It', Mcmbcis o( tho house committee inestigntlng the sugar industry wero given a re I. H Ion of tho Impoitanco of tho sugar beet development In California es-tcnla es-tcnla b two California fanners who testified tonecmlng the cost nud pioflts of thlts blanch of ngrlculturo. W T. Now land, lco-pu'sldenl ol tho Southern California licet Oroweia Association, held tho Interest of the committee for two bonis while ho do scilhcd tho great territory now plant ed to sugar beets In tho south He said that tho glowers were prosperous prosper-ous ami contended that they weio ui celvlng tho cooperation of the lefln oilos and that all they wanted wnsto be left alone at piescut. Nowland was questioned at length (.oncoming tho employment of Japanese. Japan-ese. Mexican and Hindu laborers In tlnj beet fields nnd said that the grow ers would welcome other lnboi If they could get it "It Is up to the ciovvdcd sections ot the east to sond us better labor if they have It," ho said. "Send me fifty Americans who will do the woik and I will gladly employ them "Thcio was never a country that went out of tho I lit and Into a new Industry quicker nnd moro successfully successful-ly than southern California In in section wo took 3.r,000 ncrcs that a few years ago was practically a swamp and made tho land worth from $.r.OO to $fiuO an aero through tho beet industry. "The beet ciop Is iloublo tlie value of any oilier crop that can bo raised from this land." Stephen Strong gavo tho commltteo an Itemized detail of cost of cultivating cultivat-ing Ills land and placed tho cost of giowing tho beets and landing them at the refinery at $43 an aero. Tho net profit to tho grower, ho said, ranged from $30 to $45 an aero.. Ho said the Industry transformed lands worth comparatively Uttlo to valuable lands that contributed heavily to tho sup port of tho govornment In taxes. Ho said that tho growers wore allowed an extra 7fJ cents a ton for bents dur Ing tho present season, based on tho rlso In tho prlco of sugar. "We are gotting well now," ho said "and hope that there will ho no legislation legis-lation which will disturb prices tho growers. We aro building up a prosperous Industry through co-oper-) ntlvo effort and hope that the present conditions will not bo disturbed. |