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Show BEET HARVEST ; MILLION IONS i t Total Utah Sugar Production During 1919 Amounts to 101,025 Tons i Utah sugar beet acreage in 1010 amounted to 103,24 7, tho average yield per acre being tons, and the beets paid for by tho sugar companies com-panies aggregated 1.015.S73 tons. Tho j tons of beets worked were 90S, 122 with sugar content being 13.S7 per cent, total sugar production amounting amount-ing to 101.025 tons. These figures arc given out by M". M. Justin, field agent of the bureau of crop estimates, and tho figures on the -production for 1910, says Mr, Justin, "are compiled from reports from every operating sugar factory in tho United States." , The figures for the United States for 1919 show 602,455 acres harvested, harvest-ed, average yield per acre 9.27 tons; beets paid for by companies, 6.421.47S tons; beets worked, 5.SS7.557 tons; sugar content. 14.4 8 per cent" and 725,451 tons of sugar manufactured. |