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Show HOOK KNIFE QUESTION COMES UP ONCE IRE Salt Lake, March 15 Even tho beet growers and the sugar makers have their troubles Oeorger Austin or tho Utah-Idaho company returned last week from a trip to California, where he inspected many sugar beet farms, and ho discovered that in that locality the use of hook knives In harvesting hts had been abolished. Mr. Austin now wants lhe practlco discontinued In ULah. and haj told the beet growers grow-ers as much. Fifty farmers in the vicinity of Mapleton have since signed an agreement agree-ment that they would not grow any beets unloss the use of hook knives is permitted. Tho hook knives, tho factory people say. Injure the beet and make extraction of sugar much more difficult. There la also considerably consider-ably more waste where tho knives are used. The beet growers maintain that they cannot grow profitably a large crop of beets aud harvest them without with-out the knives. Mr. Austin says his factory will not change its ideas, in the hook knife line. The manufacture of sugar can go along just the same without these fifty or sixty beet growers, according to Mr. Austin, |