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Show MANY FARMERS ARE TO GROW BEETS Field Superintendent Job Plngree of the Amalgamated Sugar companj states that nearly 4,000 acres of Bug jar beets oavi been contracted for. a little more than two-thirds of the acreage ac-reage of last year Contracts are being signed more readily than in previous years, and it Is the opinion of the superintendent that a larger acreage will be seede l than In the pasl Each sugar beet farmer, he says, seems to desire a greater crop this year. .Mr Pingree says it would be 0 good idea for the farmers to make up their minds on the beet raising proposition at an early time, so that they may begin putting their ground in shape for that crop If the con tracts are made early. It will give tin sugar company an opportunity to ar range to handle the increased acre age oo |