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Show ill 11 Its energy sustaining properties make a generous al- m m . Jowance of sugar indispensable to the efficiency of H - r ' the men who arc fighting at the front, and the H If K United States Government is looking to Utah and her m V neighboring states for large quantities of the sugar n M ' required for. our armies and the armies of the na- l ' lions fighting with us for the freedom and safety 5 9 St f world. ; ( ' - If Utah is to do her full duty, her farmers will re-f: H spond to the utmost of their ability to the world- -'t- 11 . wide appeal for more sugar, and in this way aid in ., H ! . ,. bringing the war to a successful conclusion. j S Nowhere in America can sugar-beets be raised more . s fflji profitably "than in the territory-tributary to the fac- H I lories of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, and no- H S where else does the farmer receive such broad and 1 1 - helpful co-operation from the purchaser of his pro- I I - ,r ' PIONEERS OF THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. " ;-: 1 The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company is the leader, as it is I H the pioneer, of the sugar industry in the intermoun- I I tain west. This Company's factory at Lehi, built J twenty-eight years ago, was the first beet sugar fac- ;;v IB lory in this secton of the country. Since that time V I m . the Company has constantly increased its facilities , Jl B until it now operates thirteen factories, conveniently II m ; ' - located in the best beet-growjng districts of Utah, I! Ij 'i Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Nevada. , I 1 During the bus7 season the Company employs more- - -a m m - than 2,000 men and has an average monthly payroll M I of $30000a . H I ' Last year it bought over 600,000 tons of sugar beets H H for its thirteen factories and from these beets pro- duced 145,000,000 pounds of sugar enough to double m m the sugar allowance of all the French soldiers in the H - B h L . 9 trenches for a whole year. I FIRST GROWERS' OF BEET SEED. III H : The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company was the first to at- II m - tempt the growth of sugar-beet seed in America. By H B r constant experimentation and at large expense, the ffi M conlpam' has successfully developed this important Up . branch of the industry. Tle farmers who are under H II ; ; contract to supply beets to the company are thus now HI H ' entirely independent of foreign seed growers; they H ij are supplied with home-grown beet seed, raised on III B - land similar to their own and perfectly adapted to the m B ' high altitude of the intermountain country, and in ; III o.ther respects superior to the imported article. JjJ H ' The chaotic condition of our European commerce jl 5 , " during the past four years, due to the war, has made III B 2' e ability of this company to supply a high grade of B H V 'seed invaluable to the farmers. J I CO-OPERATION WITH FARMERS. " r The CompanV s helpful co-operation with the sugar KB . beet growers is by no means limited to the supplying Our Farm Mortgage Loan Department, through - - Ij J which the company lends financial aid to the farmers 1 with whom it does business, has received generous I patronage. The interest rate charged is 6 per cent 1 and the term of the loans is from five to twenty years. ' 1 .When it is remembered that the prevailing interest charge for similar loans and f or much shorter periods , I ' is from 9 per cent to 12 per cent, the benefit the farm- 1 1 er enjoys from association with this Company is ap- i parent. I Another evidence of the Company's desire to be of 1 j substantial aid to the beet growers s found in the fact I j that last winter, when the shortage of feed threatened i $ to exterminate the livestock in many portions of the I inter-mountain west, the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company I 5 sent its own bu3ers into California, Washington;1 11 Wyoming and Nebraska, and secured options on large 1 " quantities of hay and grain at the lowest possiJble L I prices. This feed was turned over, at actual cost, to 1 j the beet raisers who were doing business with the 1 f Company. I I In addition to this, the Company extended financial j I aid to many beet farmers who otherwise would have ' - had difficulty in pulling through until this 3ear's beet 9 ! crop was read' for the market. v: v I g I i VALUABLE BY-PRODUCTS. . I I When the beet tops are properly sileaged, a superior Ij I livestock feed is produced. The sileage and by- ijgj . products from an acre of sugar beets will feed more .j"(g ?, . livestock than an acre and a half of alfalfa. v lj g ' P I s ' LOYALTY. , i h , 1 1 V Tlie Utah-Idaho Sugar Company during the present , ' I k sugar crisis has done its utmost to aid the U. S. Food I g jAdministration in every possible way. Us officer? I - were among the first in the sugar industry to go to I ' tl Washington and offer its product and its assistance to Si the government. 11 The sugar manufactured by this Company is unsur- 4 ; ' 14: X- passed amwhere in the world for purity and high ' 1 quality. This fact reflects credit not only on the com- . y pany itself, but on the farmers who grow the raw ma- B iff" & terials from which the sugar is made. - 1 ; f The farmers who increase their sugar-beet acreage ' jjiS l:. this year and help to keep the plants of the Utah-Idaho I! IT c . Sugar Company running to capacity will receive the ( -Ij utmost measure of co-operation and assistance from I r the company, and, what is of far greater importance, ' W ;f, they will render to the nation and to the world a Ire- -: , mendous service. ' ' ,: r . We therefore appeal to the farmers of Utah and ldaho i t- to GROW MORE SUGAR (BEETS. H ' If , , 7 cuo cuccl l0 contracts. G . . if ! I If fi 1 ' . Jo |