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Show THE FUTURE OF SUGAR. The western states as s-ujgar producers pro-ducers come next in importance to their rank as grain and meat producers. pro-ducers. In fact the three great industries in-dustries are closely allied and on the future of sugar industry hangs the livestock industry. The certainty of present high prices for raw material for making beet sugar is offset by uncertainty of future prices of sugar. The beets grown in 1919 on a ten dollar per ton basis to the grower will make sugar to be sold in 1920 at unkown prices. In parts of the west the share of the dollar (for which sugar was sold in the market), that went to the grower rose from 4 2 cents in 1914 to 60 cents in 1918. In Utah the farmers got 48 cents of the dollar in 1918, and will get 54 to 55 in 1919, allowing 31 cents for operating cost- of beet sugar refineries. re-fineries. One western sugar factory spent $100,000 bringing in labor from Mexico Mex-ico to save the sugar beet and other farm crops in 1918. In 1919 there will be the largest sugar beet acreage ever planted in the west and a threatened labor shortage. |