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Show GROW MORE SUGAR BEETS; MAKE MORE MONEY! FARMERS III UP 10 ADVANTAGES IN GROW BEETS Ephraini Burgescn Is Tired of Being Told What To Do By Those Who Don't Pay. A well attended mooting of the f.trm bureau in charge of L. C. K:is-mtissen K:is-mtissen was hold Wednesday afternoon after-noon in the high school auditorium. The speakers included Ephraini Burgoson. president of the Utah state farm bateau, N. G. Stringham ami Orlando Bradley of tlio Peoples Sugar Su-gar Company, ami Asa 1'. Reynolds, president of the Mt. Pleasant local farm burotKi. Bishop Bradley urge! tlio farmers to awakc to a realization that it was necessary for mate beets to be itiown to insure the maintainence or the factory in our valley. He sain that tiie lac.o.y lia.l neer yet hat! a capacity run of ..agar boots, since its erection. ;s.iHi(l ton, of beets be ins the greate: '.v:. n:.,,o of any year huu that only o'l.eoO tuns of beets were rece.wd at the factory last eai viiiih is o::ly about half what 111; factory could handle during a jood campaign. Mr. Bradley said tha . if l he farmers of Mt. Plca.sant would plant l.'.'eo or more acres to beets, an average irop would ba Un tons per acre, and :;t iS per ton would bring JSO.i'i'o or more to the farmers of Mt. Pleasant. lie advised giving the boys and girls a few acres of M good land to .-row beets and keep I them on the farm. The Bishop said ! there was a greater profit in growing beets than any other crop on thi t farm at the present time. He had , grown ten acres of beets and hired J everything done in the production and delivery of these beets to the l factory and had a nice little sum of , money left over when the harvesting J was finished, and now he is going to ijut a few a dditional hundred do! i lars from the bonus, or the sliding J scale. He mentioned that beet cul-1 cul-1 ture improved the land and kept up I the farm. ! N. G. Stringham of the factory. stated that he had been over to Nephi I with Mr. Burgesen and arranged a J series of meeting with the assistance J of Elmo Irons of Moroni. Mr. String- ham spoke of the 50-50 contract as i giving the farmers a partnership in J the sugar business, because they get 1 half of the money produced from i the beets. He also spoke of the i problems the factory has to en- counter in the transportation of beets in Sanpete valley to the factory. I lie hopes to get from 1200 to 1500 j aores of beets from the Mt. Pleasant farmers. Fphralm Burgesen. president of the statu farm bureau, nuil also president pres-ident of tlio Utile beet committee, said that the bet growers have a fair contract now, and all that I-lacking I-lacking is the be ts to make the mill go. He advice. I intoiesl :ng the young people In farm problems and encourti.,-e them to stay on the farm. Mr. Burgeseu sa.d that fathers ought to cooperate with th.i boys and get them interested iti agricultural meetings, meet-ings, and all the problems the farmer litis to contend with. He urged the farmers to diversify the crops and keep up the fertility of the land. He cautioned them against going into in-to public dobt. One of the most outstanding points Mr. lv.irgeson emphasized was to not try to ship hay and grain to market, but to put the finished product on the market. He said that the dairy cow and sugar beets go well together, and advised the farmers to follow quality and raise quality products. Mr. Burgesen said every farmer in Sanpete county should be Interested in helping to run the sugar factory at Moroni at full capacity. He said he wanted to see a lot of children In this valley raise from one to five acres of beets. There were -clubs, he said, but too many of the kind which do nothing. He said he was going to step on expenditures a little, and was only talking far the farmer, for no one else pays. Ab farmers are situated today, they are only p bunch of peones, says Mr. Burgesen. Ho advised them to lower their standard of living, and cease scattering scatter-ing things around so much. Mr. Burgesen says that the farmers are now partners in the sugar business, busi-ness, and he wants them to grow the beets and make the sugar factory a successful institution. If the factory only gets 30,000 tons of beets the contract is unjust to the factory, and Mr. Burgesen urges the farmers to grow 60,000 tons or more. Mr. Buirgeseu says that the state owes ONLY 40 million dollars, and he wants the man who pays to represent repre-sent the City, County and the State, and he who xioesn't pay, follow In behind. Mr. Burgesen says that he is tirel of being: told whut to do by those who don't pay. "Let's pay ns we go." "And we'll travel on low." The farmers represent the state, in fact they own the state. Asa F. Reynolds urges the farmers to be up and doing. - |
