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Show RhISE sugar beets In Ail Addition To An Increase In Wheat Production, The State Has Heavy Responsibility in Supplying Sup-plying Sugar For World. By E. G. Peterson, Chairman Food' Supply and Conservation Committee Com-mittee Slate Council of Defense. Utah farmers should very carefully careful-ly decide upon their responsibilities during the coming year. We are not only a meat, wheat and wool producing produc-ing state of great importance but we have come of late years to occupy an important relationship to sugar production. pro-duction. The-raising of sugar beets is limited to a very few states of the union. Wheat, on the other hand, is almost universally grown. It is obvious ob-vious therefore that the maintain-ance. maintain-ance. and increase of our sugar beet production is more difficult than in the case of wheat. While we should do all we can to raise wheat we should realize that a very heavy responsibility rests upon up-on us to produce sugar. Furthermore Further-more the value to a farm is very great, beyond the economic returns from the sale of the crop, as the result re-sult of the culture of such crops as beets and potatoes. We should keep our system of farming balanced as much as possible. By a balance system sys-tem of farming I mean a system which rotates crops and thereby secures se-cures the largest returns possible. Such a rotation guards against a great loss of soil fertility, prevents the undue spread in many cases of insects and diseases, secures a maximum maxi-mum use from implements and labor and results in a superior grasp by the farmer of the principles of agriculture. agricul-ture. We should carefully guard against overbalancing our farms; at the same time we should make every response necessary and every sacrifice necessary neces-sary to meet the governments demands. de-mands. In general our wheat acreage acre-age increase should be made on our dry-farm lands and our sugar beets and other irrigated crop increases on our irrigated lands. Utah farmers have always arid will always do their duty. In the coming year they will help to supply wheat for the world and I am confident con-fident they will do more than their share in sugar production. The appeal ap-peal is in the interest of humanity and also in the interest of developing our own farms- and building up our home industries. Loyalty to our own in addition to our loyalty to our nation na-tion and humanity is not the least glorious of the fno traditions of Utah. |
