The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-05

mt Idaho State Farm Bureau.
Ogden conference wherein the whole
situation had been threshed out and
an agreement reached to allow
price to the farmers of SO ton, at
present prices, with a $3.50 split on
any future raise. He dwelt on the
contest between the sane sugar men
and the beet men, and said that the
cane men had been slow to yield. but
had finally come through" but the
cane of Cuba could not be controlled.
He did not defend all the arrange
ments as the best that would event
ually be done, but expressed the be-
lief that further changes for the bet
ter would be made and insisted that at
the prices named a profit could be
made.
Mr. Jones answered the statement
circulated relative to II and IS per
cent beets by pointing out the fact
that for numerous reasons the fac
tories were never able to extract all
the sugar. He quoted from the re-
ports of the Amalgamated Sugar COM
pany to show that their average of
all their factories for five years had
been 252 pounds of sugar to the ton
of beets A man in the audience ask
ed if he were familiar with the re-
port of the department of agriculture
for 1915 where more than II per cent
of the sugar beets in Idaho had been
shown. Mr.. Jones replied that he
did not have the report with him, but
that the reports for the current year
were always incomplete. (The loss
for the year in Idaho 1915 as shown
4 by the report of 1916 was 2.75 per
cent.-Ed. TIMES.) Mr.. Jones refer
red to the report of the Federal
Trade Commission for complete ex-
position of the subject Several beet
growers wanted to know how, with
sugar selling this year at approx
mately the same price as last, the
company could afford to pay SO this
year and only 81 last. Mr.. Jones an
swered that neither he nor the gov
/ eminent were connected with the fac
tories last year and could not take
that up. He called attention to the
immense investment in each plant and
showed that while new plants had
been put in during the last three
years by the Amalgamated and its
productive capacity increased 81 per
cent the product had dwindled from
year to year.
He replied vigorously to prospec-
tus of new company at Rigby and
suggested that those present look into
the history of some of it's promoters,
citing some of this history.
In closing he denounced those who
had tried to prevent the success of
the movement for more sugar and bet
ter production by spreading half
truths and insinuations and asking
people not to plant more beets He
described the working of the farm bu-
reau in harmony with the factories.
Joseph Quincy spoke for the com
pany assuring cooperation with the
farm bureau and promised to remedy
the complaints about delay in dump
ing. He said the company could
furnish seed.
After further description of the CO.
operation through the farm bureau
as an instrument of the government.
DR.. j. A. Brock the last speaker turn
ed to the questions of patriotism and
production, showing the malignant
pro-German influences at work. The
following from an interview covers
the case completely from his view
point, regarding the situation in Ida
no and Utah:
Utah and Idaho, according to sta
tistics furnished by the six beet SUI
gar companies operating in these
states, produced during 1917 a total
of 127,250 tons of sugar" said DR..
Brock. THE records show that the
various factories in these states
handled over 1,126.00O tons of sugar
beets.
THE 1917 sugar production was
substantially the same as that of 1915
which. according to the figures of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, amounted to 136,151 tons. The
quantity of beets worked was Slightly
larger than in 1916, when it was l.
039,715 tons. The past seasons crop
was harvested from 10000 acres. as
against 110,346 acres harvested in
1916, giving an average yield in 1917
/ slightly under the 1916 yield. This
fact is explained by the unfavorable
weather conditions which prevailed
and is by no means the normal Weld
in these states.
Supports % Factories
AT the present time the Utah-Ida-
ho district supports twenty-five beet
sugar factories. OF these ten are
owned by the Utah-Idaho Sugar com
pany, eight by the Amalgamated Sugar
company and one each by the Delta
Beet Sugar corporation, Layton Su-