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Show UTAH FOURTH IN MiOUTPUT More Than 116.000 Acres Planted to Beets in State This Year. I (ah ranks fourth In the production produc-tion of sugar beets, according to Miner M Justin, agriculture statistician statistic-ian of the Fnlted States bureau of crop estimates More then 116.000 acres of land In Utah this year aro planted with sugar beets and a rec- ! ord crop is expected. In Ogden and vicinity a largei beet acreage Is noted, which eclipses all previous marks Last year 109,700 arros were planted with beets while the largest area in any prelous year was !n 1017 when 91.100 teres :re In beets. In 1915 Utah had but 58.400 acres In sugar beets. The total area planted to beets in the United States in 1920 Is 978,500; in 1919 It was 890,400. which was a Jump of more than 20U.U00 acres from the 191S figure', though In 1917. the previous record year In the industry In this nation, the total was 806,600. Colorado liM the largest acreage planted to beets of any state In tho union. 253.600; Michigan la next, with 171,400 acres, but onbr 154.000 of these are planted in the state. Michigan factories produce the sugar from 1700 acres of beets grown In Canada, and from 17,700 acres In Ohio and Wisconsin California takes third place, in acreage planted to beets, with 135.700 as its figures; Utah la fourth, with 116.100. and the other states rank Nebraska, 74.90U; Idaho, 57,600 in addition to 3,200 or which the product Is manufactured In Utah Ohio, 4 4 300, in addition to 11,000 acres of which the beeta are to othei States; Wisconsin. 29,000, In addition to 7000 acres of beets sent to other states; Iowa. 21.200 cces, Wyoming, 14,100 acres, while 54,300 acre? are in other states which are grouped b the bureau to avoid disclosing figures for Individ- uai companies, ( allioima a banner year for acreage acre-age was In 1917 with 190,200 acres, but the nexl year it dropped below 141.000. which was lower than It had been since 3915. It has been slowly growing since In all the other states this ear's acreage Is the rec ord, surpassing record figures of the year before I hough there had been considerable fluctuation In several other states before 1919. oo |