Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-07-14
Continued from last issue.)


Another Hocus Pocus Statement:
"Of course, we have many good
farmers and some who are not so
good, but the best Of our farmers with
whom | have talked tell me that at the
present price of beets they can make
their land produce $50 an acre net,
each year over all expenses"
1t may be a fact that "the best
of our farmers" can make their land
produce $50 an acre net, year after
year. But such "best" farmers are
nearly all in the village graveyard, or
have forsaken beet culture for some
thing more remunerative. OF course
the author Of Facts" etc, made the
statement with malice and afore-
thought, for the reason that the aver
age reader Immediately concludes that
if one farmer can accomplish this col
ossal feat other farmers can do like
wise. The fact of the matter, how
ever, is this: Twenty-Five dollars is a
high average net production in Utah.
And, considering the fact that the man
who raises sugar beets is under the
necessity of giving practically all his
time to the tuber, it can readily be
seen just how many comforts of life
are and are not heaped upon the SUI
gar beet growers. according to Mr..
Nibley's own figures, the average acre
tonnage in Utah, for the last five years
was 12.43 tons. During that same pc
riod the average acre cost of produc-
ton was close to $40 The average
net gain for every acre, therefore
could not have been more than $25.)
Another hocus pocus statement:
Generally speaking, a ton of beets
will produce $50 pounds of sugar"
Had the author Of Facts" etc
made this statement years ago, il
might have been approximately cor
rect; but the beet sugar factory SUI
perintendent who cannot squeeze
more than $50 pounds of succhrose
out of a ton of beets today belongs
to the dark ages, even when handling
beets which average as low as IL
per cent sugar Mr.. Nibley states that
the farmers will, this year, receive
about 1928 ton for their beets This
means that the beets which will be
manufactured into sugar this fall will
be in excess of 16 per cent, average
in sugar content. A per cent loss OF
sugar, during the process of manufac-
ture, is very highs seldom reached
but even granting per cent loss
I the average net extraction per ton OF
beets would be 260 pounds of sugar
for every ton of beets entering the
factory.
I Another hocus pocus statement:
"Shame upon the man or men, there.
fore, who to serve their (sic) owl
selfish ends, are endeavoring to stii
up prejudice against the sugar com
I panies--"
Naturally the consumer Of Utah
should not be so impolite and so bois
I ferrous and so heartless and so re-
I vengeful as to cease turning his peck
cts inside out for the welfare of the
/ Utah-Idaho Sugar company; and, nat
urally, the sugar tramp" and the
I "beet bug" should just keep on slav-
ting for the Utah-Idaho Sugar com
| pan, without even the sign of muir
muir. But, really, Mr.. Nibley, this is
an unnatural epoch. So kindly par
don and pay up.
! A Little Mathematics.
Now that the pulp In Facts About
I the Sugar Industry" has been pumped
TO the sewer, and new figures are on
/ the Job, let us apologize TO Prof. Digit
and make a little mathematics Of oul
own:
4 Problem: If $50 pounds Of sugar
( from a ton of beets, which is paid foi
\ at the Utah-Idaho Sugar company:
/ price, will seven up" things with Colo
RADIO, so far as freight rates are con
cerned (the author of Facts" etc, al
mits this) what will that additional Il
mounds of sugar for every ton of beets
harvested for the Utah-Idaho Sugar
company in Utah do (e) towards AZ
increased price for beets? and Oh
towards decrease in the cost of SUI
/ gar (using 100000 tons as the guam
/ tity of beets harvested and compelling
Utah-Idaho Sugar company to pay
the present customers price for tho
sugar--S.7c a pound).
Solution of (a): 800 times 10 equals
3,500,0O0, which is the number OF
pounds of sugar sideswitched by the
author of "Facts, "etc. 100000 times