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Show The Future of Sugar )Tho woatorn states as sugar pro-', pro-', ducers como next in importance to their rank as grain and meat producers. pro-ducers. In fact tho throe great in dustrics are closely allied and on the future of tho sugar Industry hangs tho livestock Industry. The certainty of present high prices pric-es for raw material for making beet sugar la offset by uncertainty of fu-l turo prices of sugar. Tho beets grown in 1919 on a ten dollars per ton basis to the grower will make sugar to be sold In 1020 at unknown prices. In parts of the west the share, of the dollar (for which sugar was sold in tho markot) that went to tho grow or rose from 42 cents In 1914 tf 60 cents In 191 g. In Utah the farmers got 48 cents of the dollar In 1918 and will get 54 to 55 cents In 1919, allowing 3,11 cents for operating costs of beet sugar su-gar refineries. One western sugar factory spent 1100,000 brlnlglng In labor from Mexico to savo the sugar beet and other, farm reas In 1918.. ( |