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Show WE FACTS ABOUT IN 1949 Prices . . . Benefit Payments i Labor . . . Mechanization . . . By- Products. If sugar beet growers had known in the spring of 1948 what they now know I about sugar prices and prospects, they would likely have planted many thousands of acres more of sugar beets than they did. Prospects for 1949 are even better for the grower than they were last year. Here are the facts: .J. The present price 'of sugar and'iuture market A Moreover, sugar beets is the only major crop A prospects, based on the recently expressed . A still enjoying government support which is jj attitude of the Secretary of Agriculture and on his not already produced in surplus quantities . . . and 1 official estimate of "consumption requirements for therefore is not likely to suffer in the immediate 1949," indicate that substantially higher prices for future from the effects of over-production, this year's sugar beet crop can be expected than were received by the grower for last year's crop. Said the Secretary: '."Domestic sugar prices should -Jy Sugar Beets are a two- .profit crop. The feed be higher in 1949 than in 1948. The present whole- X v?lue f e .toPs frmt acre f bf et wljen , . , , . properly utilized, is equal to the entire teed value sale-price of refined sugar at 8 cents a pound is o acre o barley Many farmers last year made about one cent below the price objective defined $40 to $55 per acre through pasturing lambs "on in the Sugar Act." . spread." The 1949 sugar beet contract approved by Farmers can further increase their yields and this company and growers' representatives is their profits from 1949 sugar beets by planting as good as, or better than, any sugar beet con- early, by fertilizing properly, and by using proved tracts currently being offered in the nation. Under practices and tested machinery for thinning, block- I last .year's contract growers of this district have ing and weeding their beet fields this spring. The already received $11.60 in direct company pay- spring labor costs can be reduced and yields can i ments and government benefit payments, with a be increased three or four tons to the acre in this 1 ; substantial additional final company payment of manner. 1 ; around $1.00 or more per ton confidently expected s Q when the 1948 crop sugar has been finally sold. The I , prospective price of sugar beets for 1949 bears a Jk Labor for handling this year's sugar beet crop : more favorable relationship to other crops than A is more favorable than it has been at any 1 I at any other time since before the war. In 1949 the time since the beginning of the war for farmers I sugar beet crop is the only crop still grown under who are prepared to take their labor early. The a government support program which offers the company is already actively recruiting labor in all I farmer better prospects than he had a year ago . . . major labor surplus areas. Local farm labor will and the Sugar Act runs until December 31, 1952. also be more plentiful than usual, 1 Contracts Are Already in the Field-See Your Fieldman or Call at the I Sugar Company Office Utah idato Sugar (SsGnspaBuy A stabilizing industry which benefits everyone who lives in Millard County t ; LEASE TERMINATION Forces Sale of Entire Equipment of C H U R C H S- St. George, Utah Ice Cream, Frosted Malts and Root Beer Parlor -A Real Bargain For Cash-Equipment Cash-Equipment for sale includes 2 1-2 gal. ice cream freezer with automatic controls for frosted malts; 40 gal. hardening cabinet; 25 gal. mix compartment; 60 gal. dispensi'. cabinet; draft root beer unit with electric refrigeration; re-frigeration; hot dog unit; two counters -with 10 stools each; complete equipment to serve sundaes, frosted malts, etc. For Futher Information Write or Visit I ' CHUR C H ' S lr OID Hermitage! AentuchjWikkey jf A Gentleman's Whiskey from.Kentucty NfinalDUtillera Prod. Corp., N.Y. . 86 Proof . 65 Grain Neutral |
