Show GROW MORE SUGAR oilman BEETS BEET r That Is Proposal Which Ii May Cure Ills His of Wheat Farmers 6 Br Ry COLFA COLFAX t t k special pedal o to The I l 4 v Cop 1923 1 WASHINGTON Sept Out 29 23 29 Out Ou ot or the tho series ot of farmer relief reller con con- conferences eon con which ha ha trio o 0 engaged the attention of o official tor lo to the tho past pat fortnight or so 80 hRS hIs come corna a suggestion received od with faor fa ta or orIn oIn In high quarters which It Ir adopted effect a n radical change chango In agricultural economics through the tir great grent wheat heat belt ot o o the tho United States Mate 9 The proposal Is that the wheat farmer at al present realizing less les lesI 1 than cost on his product dh dhert ert n a iI I 3 con considerable 1 proportion of ot his acres to the tho cultivation ot of o sugar beets beet At the present time the tho thoa th a erge yield ot of wheat per acre nere Is less leas than 14 bushels and the price on the farm averages less lebs than 90 cents The Tho average 11 return to the farmer Is estimated at less les than 13 for tor each aero acre planted In meat neat below production lion tion cost Sugar Deet tal mers are obtain obtain- obtaining log InS according to the best a a returns here heie on an average yield ut of about 10 tons to the acre An av- av average av average price per ton of beets Is somewhat difficult to obtain due largely to the practice ot of o many farmers who dispose of ot their crop to tho factories on a share and share basis but the figure Is placed Loner athe ely at 8 S a ton Moto likely I 11 it Is said Bald that the 10 loul losel loulis lo elIs is more nearly accurate At the tho th lower figures however the return to the farmer er on en the al a eraS eraS-e would bo be 80 8 0 an acre or mOl mote e than Ix times the income from Irom the same lan land l producing heat i r ORID BY W WALLACE WALLACE- Secretary Wallace allace is s s on record L s favoring the extension ot of sugar beet growing In America and Pres Free President ident Coolidge it la ts reported has as ashad had his attention called to the pos poe pos of ot relief relict to the wheat cheat heat faint fann fallner fainter fanner er by tho dl diversion enlon ot of part ot of the acreage to beets The Tile pi deut dent deut who recently learns learned ot of the tariff commission of ot the work nark ork Le- Le LeIng being be being ing done by that body In connection connection connection tion with the beet sugar Industry Industry f le I said to be bo turning the proposal Os 0 cr er in his mind with a a sieve le leot ew ot of ascertaining its utility as a u-es- u tion to wheat heat farmers for tor next years ears ear's ac I lUes At the tho present time the United States Slates draws most ot of Its annual 5 tons of o sugar from flom Cuba Cuban CUllan producers domina dominate Ie the SU- SU SUar sug- sug sugar sug sugar ar market in this country countr rh beet sugar Industry here Is com conn- com but has de- de developing developing de developing under the protection of ot a tart tariff ot of 1 7 71 b cents a a pound to con con- cone con proportions T L I T SUPPLY LY LYAll All told the total acreage planted plant plant- planted planted ed to Buga beets in lu the United tates is approximately rho wheat acreage as e estimated by the department ot of o agriculture acres The of acres bt ot this sast ast ast area officials here bero Dero calculate laie late lae would so restrict wheat pro pro- production pro in the United States as to afford the farmer profit Department of ot agriculture ape ape- cc say that sugar beets Leets IP glow OW le beat t when hen rotated with other crops being planted on the tto same land on e el y fl fue e years cars Re- Re ned Reduction Re Reduction d ot of o the wheat belt bv Lv 14 14 arcs and a rotation of that s sort rt would make annually all a all a J able for the od ot of sugar ue ts acres acrA On a yield of DC approximately ur vI one and one one- third one third tons of ot sugar per acie e the annual In ill addition to the amount now being produced would approximate ton tons or of noel Deet sugar and that of oC with the pi pies es eat ent yield of ot beet sugar and cane would make the country Independent independent independent ent ot of o foreign markets mark toi lot Its lis sugar supply It would also BIBO eliminate control ot of sugar prices DUST DOLT br t S The potential beet Jeet sugar states according to the department ot of ag- ag agriculture ag agriculture are New Hampshire Ver- Ver Vermont Ver Vermont mont moat Massachusetts Rhode Rhode Island New York Yorke New Jersey Pennsyl- Pennsyl Pennsylvania anla vania anla Maryland Delaware are Ir Mr lnla 1 and West Vest Virginia in the east L Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa the Dakotas and Nebraska in the middle mid mid- middle mid mid-dio dle west Colorado tah New Nevada evada and California In Inthe the tho west Not more moro than halt half ot of these dates aUtes tales are Blowing gl 0 ing beets to tonny tonny any extent at the tho present time |