The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-25
SUGAR BEET CRlP'
BEST N H|sTl
Manager I. r. Cutler of IJi
Idaho Company Please,
With Conditions.
INCREASE IN ACREA
Organized Effort to Edu,
Consumers to Prefer BE
Sugar Is Made.
INCREASE IN ACRE.

'Our companies i'll Utah.
Idaho are experiencing a very pro
GUS season. and the tonnage Of
farmers in the two states isI
heaviest III their history said III
f. Cutler, vice president aud gel
manager Of the Utah-ldaho Sugar
pany, yesterday, ''Thc weather q
tiops have turned favorable, and
1ieyc every beet viii be harvested
Speaking Of the prospect for
season, Mr.. Cutler added, They.
bright, as applications for an iucrt
acreage arc already coming in.
drought In Europe this year ha,
tectcd tho beet seed crop, but
uatcly for Utah end Idaho comp
il has always been their policy to
over a large amount of seed, in 4
Of the long distance from Europe
the long time 1t takes, in couscqu
to get the seed TO this country.'a
Sugar Not SO High.
In connection with the recent
price Of sugar, Mr.. Cutler called q
tion to tho fact that the Utah-l
companies maintained price o.
cents per hundred pounds below
charged for cane sugar, when Z
normal conditions the price of
sugar ia only 20 cents per hundrei
low cane. 'The farmers cont
he. ''reeciycd au advance of %
per ton, both in Utah and Idaho
Mr.. Cutler returned few day.
from Chicago, where he attende
meeting of the United States
Sugar Manufacturers association
which sixty beet sugar factories
represented.
Zone OF the principal matters
discussed, said Mr.. Cutler. was
licity work. II was decided ID
a great deal Of publicity work fol
purpose of educating the people i
use Of beet sugar. and especial
protect ourselves AGAINST the y
cauda in tho interest Of free suga
legged TO he carried on by the
sugar refuers and the New York
porters. We also discussed mctho
manufacture and the use Of.
products. We did not discuss n
which is entirely a question Of
petition, consumption and suppl
noticed that II WIS suggested id
newspapers that we considered n
funds for ultcrior purposes, but
Was not true.
"Tbe only funds we raise are
the purpose of paving the expcns
the organization and the maintel
OF information bureaus. Another
ter determined on at the meeting
the encouragement OF the producti
bcets in localities where they ca
produced to advantage,
Chance for Expansion.
Mr., Cutler also said he found
sentiment in favor of the use OF
sugar growing. but said he.
are only manufacturing ono seve1>
the entire sugar consumption iu
United States Locally in Utah
Idaho we can oulv market ID per
of our output in these states. We
therefore have to find a larger ND
in the thicklv populated states,
for cane and beet sugar One TIM
certain, if we had been manufactn
in the United States this season
one-half the consumption prices y
not have been affected as they
been by drought in foreign count
notably in Germany, Belgium
Austria. it is now estimated thai
beet sugar crop Of Europe is two
lion tons less this season than
previous year.
Mr.. Cutler said he could not
whether there would be any ho
tariff legislation against beet sugc
the coming session of congress or
in fact he did not know.