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Show Farmers Urged To Plant Beets Farmers in sugar beet factory areas where land is adapted to beet production are urged by Marvin Jones, War Food administrator, admin-istrator, to make their acreage goals, in a statement received today by officials of the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar company in Ogden. ''Sugar is definitely on the critical crit-ical crop list and as far this commodity com-modity is concerned, 1945 will be the most diffcult year of the war," Mr. Jones said. The WFA head pointed out that in the Intermountain territory, particularly in Utah, Idaho and Colorado, there is still ample time for farmers to plant sugar beets. Mexican and war prisoner labor is assured growers in these areas in thinning, hoeing and harvesting the 1945 crop. The entire en-tire United States beet sugar crop is estimated at 1.3 million tons. The United States sugar requirement require-ment is made up of 5.8 million tons for civilians and 1.4 million tons for the military services, which represents a per capita consumption of 83 pounds refined . ... inC nr eoVPTl for civilians m per cent below 1944. Substantiating Mr. Jones' report, re-port, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph W. Olmstead, director of the office of supply, to the special subcommittee sub-committee of the Senate committee commit-tee on Agriculture, says, "The sugar situation has been complicated compli-cated by two factors: (1) Philippine Philip-pine supplies have been cut off throughout the war and none is expected from that source until late 1945; (2) more than 700,000 tons were consumed in 1944 for the manufacture of synthetic rubber rub-ber for military purposes." |