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Show beet by-products make it possible to greatly increase the number of livestock that can be supported support-ed in a given farming area. These in turn furnish meat and dairy products which arc so useful as human food. Livestock also adds materially to the fertility of the land. "Beet culture has a decided value on the farm ask':! from the cash returns. The deep plowing, the intensive culture, and the fertilization iv-cessary in the successful production of beets improve farming methods materially and increase the yields of other crops. Weeds are also controlled and business methods introduced into agriculture. agricul-ture. The farmer, the soil, and the community are thereby mutually benefited." Local Officials Advises Beet Planting: Mr. J. R. Rawlins, past president presi-dent of the Utah Beet Growers Association says, '-The growing of beets may become a privilege. When this war is over," says he, "and we undertake the difficult problem of readjustment, it is reasonable to suppose that, for a time at least, we will go back to some pattern of controlled production of farm crops. When this occurs, it seems certain that the privilege of growing beets will be based upon the production produc-tion history of the individual grower. It may, therefore, be worth a great deal to our grow- ers, in days to come, to have- a record of continued and consistent consis-tent beet production upon which to base their future privilege. In the interest of good farming, and in the economic interest of the long view we should continue con-tinue to plant sugar beets!" President F. S. Harris of the B. Y. U. has said regarding the use and value of sugar beets: "While. the' most important use of sugar beets is in the manufacture manu-facture of sugar, a most valuable valu-able commodity in these clays of sugar rationing, other important returns to the farm result from raising this crop. The tops are valuable and are often pastured on the ground because they contain con-tain most of the mineral elements ele-ments of fertility. The pulp, a by-product of the sugar industry, indus-try, is valuable stock-feed, being highly succulent. These sugar- |