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Show Prospects Point To Good Beet Tonnage Elsewhere in this issue, our readers read-ers will note that representatives of (lie Sugar Company will be at various banks on Wednesdays and Saturdays for the purpose of making contracts for beet acreage with those farmers who find it convenient to be in town on that date. The past winter is even more favorable favor-able for beets than the winter of 1924-1925, 1924-1925, when the average tonnage harvested har-vested the following fall in Utah Co. was about. 15 tons. That year, as the growing season progressed, we recall that many farmers expressed regret that they had not planted a larger acreage of beets, and we look forward at this time for a bumper crop this year. Your Editor hopes the farmers will take advantage of the favorable conditions con-ditions now existing and plant a large acreage of beets. Think what this would mean! A possible distribution for beets aud labor of $2,000,000.00 in Utah County, and in addition a large amount for taxes paid by the industry. Contempla'e what this Industry-means Industry-means to you and the prosperity of our County ami contract all the acreage acre-age you can profitably grow. |